Brubaker Connaughton Goss & Lucarelli has made an unusual leadership change for a firm its size, bringing on a CEO from outside the firm, who is not a practicing lawyer, to focus on firm strategy.

New CEO Steven Mauro went to law school, but has spent his career since then leading firm operations in several Big Law C-suites. Most recently, he was the COO at Fisher Phillips in Atlanta, and before that, he had the same role at Drinker Biddle & Reath.