SMR Legal Search | Legal Recruiter - Lawyer Jobs in Philadelphia

SMR Legal Search was founded by Susan M. Rubinovitz, Esq. a former practicing attorney and experienced legal recruiter, to provide in house legal departments and law firms with top attorney talent in the most expeditious and cost-effective manner. We are specialists in the field of permanent attorney placement. We place in house counsel, partners, practice groups and associates. In addition, we handle mergers. Focusing exclusively on placing attorneys in permanent positions contributes to our unparalleled knowledge of the legal market and success at finding and placing top attorney talent in highly specialized and technical fields of law.

SMR Legal Search is based in Philadelphia and places attorneys at law firms and corporations throughout the Northeast, including Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and all of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, New York, Boston, Connecticut and Maryland. Our clientele is diverse; we work with large multi-national law firms to small specialty boutique firms, and from Fortune 500 companies to small start-up businesses. We have some of the most interesting and desirable legal positions available in the Northeast. Many of our positions are exclusive unadvertised positions.

Our recruiters are former practicing attorneys and paralegals who have worked at law firms throughout the Northeast, including AM Law Global 100, national and boutique specialty law firms and who possess extensive legal recruiting experience. We have over 45 years of combined law firm and legal recruiting experience. At SMR Legal Search, our recruiters work collaboratively to use our collective in-depth knowledge of the practice of law and legal market, experience and extensive contacts throughout the Northeast to provide our clients with the most qualified and highly credentialed attorneys to meet their specific needs.

We are specialists in relocating attorneys. Susan has practiced law throughout the Northeast and is a member of the Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Maryland, Massachusetts and District of Columbia bars. As such, she is familiar with the bar admittance requirements for each of those jurisdictions and has numerous contacts in the corporate and legal communities of those areas. In addition, Stephanie has worked at law firms throughout the Northeast and maintains longstanding relationships with members of the corporate and legal community. We assist our relocating attorneys with any needs that they may have, including finding realtors, housing, schools for their children and positions for their spouses. It is our mission to make the transition as easy as possible for you and your family.

As members of the NALSC (National Association of Legal Search Consultants), SMR Legal Search operates under the most stringent ethical standards and strictest confidentiality.




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