Burns Legal Recruiting, led by Scott Burns, a former AmLaw 100 law firm partner and senior executive at the world’s largest lawyer-owned insurance company, specializes in serving Chicago law firms and legal professionals.
With extensive expertise in mergers, lateral hiring, and legal market strategy, Scott has a proven track record of assisting top law firms in acquiring talent through strategic lateral hires and mergers. At his previous company, ALAS, he played a key role in spearheading the legal hiring efforts for the department.
Burns Recruiting is an elite resource for premier law firms and companies seeking to attract talented professionals to fill important roles within their organizations. We specialize in legal placement, working with law firm clients to find and recruit partners, associates, and lead administrators. Our services extend to corporate clients who need to add high-quality lawyers to their in-house legal teams. Burns Recruiting is ready to search for the right candidates interested in moving in-house counsel from their current law firm or corporate legal position. Our unique depth of knowledge of law firms, lawyers, law firm administrators, and in-house positions puts us in the perfect position to find and recruit top candidates for our clients.
I have been involved in law firm risk management for over thirty years, serve as my firm’s GC and my practice is defending large law firms in professional liability cases.
I have had the pleasure of working with Scott Burns for many years. Scott recruited our firm to join ALAS and his responsiveness and knowledge of our industry made that process easy. When Scott told me he was leaving ALAS and starting his own legal recruiting firm I was, at first, surprised. But after reflecting for a moment, I realized he is the perfect person to up the game of Chicago legal recruiting and provide a real value added service.
Those of us in firm management know that lateral hires can be essential to a law firm’s ability to grow and to add talent where it is needed. At the same time, historical experiences of many firms, including those I defend, shows us that the opportunities laterals may provide come with significant risks. Risks of underperformance and worse, many of the largest claims I have seen arose from lateral lawyers. With Scott’s experience in the attorney risk management arena and his broad industry contacts I think he can offer an attorney recruitment service like no other. I wish him great success and highly endorse Scott.
I am the General Counsel of an AmLaw 200 firm with nearly 30 years of employment law experience and active involvement with our Firm’s recruitment efforts during that entire tenure. As such, I have had many personal experiences with legal recruiters, and have found my satisfaction with their performance largely to be a function of their integrity.
Given my personal dealings with Scott and what I think of his integrity, I fully expect that he will be the type of legal recruiter a Firm will wish to retain. Given his deep understanding of the private attorney industry, firm talent, emerging practices, and current market forces, and in light of his relationships with firm executives, I expect him to be very successful in the Chicago legal market.
Scott Burns is a legal industry expert. He has a deep knowledge of law firm needs and the markets in which they operate. His unique experience, work ethic, communication skills, integrity and strong industry relationships are a huge asset to any law firm seeking to grow.
Through my work with Scott over many years, I have come to see him as a trusted partner, a seasoned advisor in the legal community and – just as importantly – a friend. He has always been professional and thorough in every way. I am confident that Scott will bring the same level of commitment to his new venture that he did in his previous endeavors. I cannot recommend him more highly.
We look forward to discussing your legal hiring needs and business strategy, working closely with your hiring partner to provide an elite level of legal recruiting services. With our extensive network in the Chicago market, we specialize in screening candidates to ensure they are the perfect fit for your firm’s culture and career objectives. As the leading Chicago legal recruiters, Burns Legal Recruiting and Consulting is dedicated to connecting you with top attorney candidates who align with your business goals. Think of us as providing a “mugshot” of excellence, capturing the best legal talent for your team.
We are an elite resource for premier firms looking to help our clients attract talented professionals and integrate them into their organizations.
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Scott and I worked closely together for 16 years at ALAS through many cycles in our business and changes in our company and our industry. As one of the most senior lawyers in our Member Services department, his work was always first rate, and he achieved great results year in and year out in our annual renewals and in attracting new business to our company.
In his new role, Scott will bring clients a unique blend of excellent judgment, extraordinary people skills, strong relationships in the legal and business worlds in Chicago and nationally, and a deep knowledge of the culture and business of law firms and in-house legal departments.