Legal Recruiters Directory

Koerner & Associates, Inc., the first Attorney Search Firm established in the State of Tennessee, has been serving attorneys and those who employ them for over 20 years. Our long history of building relationships by providing consistent results for our clients gives us a unique edge not only in the Southeast, but also across the United States and even internationally. Koerner & Associates, Inc. places attorneys in all practice areas in both permanent and contract/temporary positions. We take great pride in extending to attorneys, law firms, corporations and financial institutions the highest degree of competence, professionalism and discretion.

K&A has been a member of the National Association of Legal Search Consultants since 1989, ensuring that we adhere to a strict code of ethics and allowing us to network with similarly committed search firms and consultants in every region of the United States and internationally. We are pleased to offer the personal service of a boutique firm and the unlimited potential of established global relationships. Pam Koerner began her legal recruiting career with the national law firm of Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue and later with the Nashville firm Boult, Cummings, Conners & Berry. Lauralyn Chrisley joined K&A after practicing corporate law with Vinson & Elkins in Houston, TX, and Frost Brown Todd in Nashville.

Young Mayden, LLC is a boutique legal search and consulting firm with long-standing personal access to highly credentialed attorneys across the country, derived from decades of law practice and professional leadership. After many years on the "client" side of lawyer hiring, Ken Young and Barbara Mayden came together to form Young Mayden, LLC, pooling perspectives and contacts cultivated through their combined 60+ years of law practice with major law firms in New York and in the southeast, and long time high level involvement in the American Bar Association. Those contacts enable the firm to conduct peer-to-peer searches; their tag line - Connecting People We Know Through Workplaces We Understand defines their method for meeting client objectives.

Representative recent retained and contingency searches: law firm mergers/legal staffing for offices in Boston, Charlotte, Charleston and Columbia; successful placements of partners and associates in Atlanta, Boston, Charlotte, Charleston, Chattanooga, Chicago, Nashville, New York, Orlando, and Raleigh; general counsel placement in Texas; and assisting the American Bar Association in its successful search for an Executive Director in Chicago.