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When Your General Counsel Seat Is Empty, Risk Doesn’t Wait.

 

When a General Counsel or Chief Legal Officer role is vacant, legal direction fractures. Regulatory strategy slows. Risk tolerance goes untested. Commercial decisions stall. Outside counsel spend expands – quietly and without internal counterbalance.

This is where the right search partner changes the trajectory. Princeton Legal Search Group partners with CEOs, Boards, and Chief Legal Officers to secure seasoned in-house legal leaders when the exposure is greatest and the margin for error is smallest. We combine institutional knowledge of your business with enduring access to undisclosed legal talent, delivering legal leaders who possess the judgment, credibility, and strategic discipline to strengthen the enterprise from day one.

Our work is fully embedded in the in-house legal market. We spend every day engaging with senior legal leaders and have built trusted relationships, acquiring the hiring insights required to execute high-stakes searches with confidence, transparency, and discretion.
It is this depth of engagement that leads those same leaders to rely on us when it’s their turn to build their own legal teams.

Since 1999, we have achieved a 100% placement success rate across every senior General Counsel and Chief Legal Officer search we’ve conducted, as measured by leaders who deliver impact to organizations navigating M&A, CEO transitions, market expansion, and increasing enterprise complexity.

The right legal leader reduces risk before it materializes. Our commitment is to secure that leader, with precision and certainty, the first time.

 

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Virtual Event: Leading Through Uncertainty, 7/22

Corporate Counsel, Securities & Finance with Solventum placed by Princeton Legal Search Group, LLC

VP, Assistant General Counsel with CorMedix placed by Princeton Legal Search Group, LLC

America's Best Recruiters 2025 & 2004 NALSC * National Association of Legal Search Consultants
New Jersey Law Journal * The Best of 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016

What People Are Saying

“David is the ultimate professional, and has a unique ability to match a professional’s background and aspirations, with his corporate and law firm clients’ requirements. Making the connection is not David’s ultimate goal, however. He works with candidates and clients in a detailed and approachable manner, to structure resumes so that they best represent the candidate, to keep candidates informed in a real-time fashion as to job status, interview schedule, feedback, and ultimately offer negotiations – all the while being candid, accessible, and honest. If there is one word to characterize the acumen, skill set, and sixth-sense David Garber brings to the legal recruiting industry, that word is INTEGRITY.”

- Mark Boyland, General Counsel , Counsel
Benjamin Moore & Co.

“Without a doubt, my experience with Princeton Legal has been nothing short of outstanding!  From start to finish, the team was professional, insightful, and impactful.  I can confidently say that my transition from Big Law to a genuinely unique and well-fitting opportunity was only made possible by the diligent work of David Garber and Mike Capetola.  Throughout the process, they provided candid assessments of my candidacy and routinely discussed interview preparation and application strategy.  I recommend Princeton Legal to anyone seeking quality career counsel and especially to those who are seeking opportunities that are specifically tailored to their interests and potential.”

- Aaron McKenney, Associate General Counsel
McKenna & Associates, LLC

Princeton Legal, and Kiersten Lenherr in particular, are my heroes!  Prior to meeting with Kiersten, I had it in my mind that I may want to make a job change, but I was so intimidated by the application process, the time commitment of getting my materials together, and the prospect of interviewing for the first time in several years, that I kept putting it off.  Kiersten and her team made the entire process so smooth and simple for me.  From our very first conversation, I knew I was in good hands.  Princeton Legal takes the time to get to know the candidate, so you know you are getting an introduction and recommendation that highlights your best qualities.  From there, everything was seemless.  Kiersten went above and beyond to be available for my calls, questions, concerns (aka panic as I waited for my offer), and all the in-between.  She and David also helped me through the negotiation of the particulars of my offer, and the transition from my previous firm.  I cannot recommend this team enough.  Thank you times a million to Kiersten and Princeton Legal!

- Danielle Kunkel, Labor and Employment Associate
Buchanan Ingersoll Rooney