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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What People Are Saying

“PLSG played an integral role in my transition from an AmLaw 100 firm to one of the country’s largest cultural not-for-profit institutions. Mary Clare provided invaluable industry guidance and answered all of my inquiries throughout the process. She was genuinely invested in my success, and I am grateful for her continued support.”

- -Counsel, Major Non-Profit Institution

“When you finally get the approval to move forward and add headcount, you know the organization and Department need somebody a month ago if not earlier. This is when I turn to David and can count on him to immediately focus on the search knowing he will professionally present me with a package of qualified candidates backed with his meaningful insight and ranking. Throughout the process, David is also extremely accessible and becomes a valuable partner in the selection process.”

- Gregory Mayes, Chief Operating Officer , Vice President, General Counsel
Advaxis, Inc.

“David is an incredible professional who helped me think through not only search options for my company but also my own career. I would recommend him from either the employer or employee side. He is knowledgeable, honest, quick-moving and thoughtful in his approach.”

- Lawrence Mendenhall, Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary , Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary
Humanity United

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

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