Legal search,
reengineered.
Kaplan Legal Search pairs deep market expertise with data-driven mapping and a live talent network — placing partners and legal leaders with speed and precision.
A smarter kind of search.
Technology finds the field. Our consultants find the fit. Both, on every mandate.
Data-driven mapping
We map the entire market for a role — not just the handful of people who happen to be looking.
A live talent network
Relationships maintained continuously, so a search starts warm instead of from scratch.
Human judgment
Fit, culture, and timing are read by experienced consultants — the part no algorithm gets right.
The market, in real time.
The engine behind every search — continuous market mapping, live movement, and a network that never goes cold.
- Partner move detected · Disputes · London
- New GC mandate opened · Fintech · New York
- Team signal · 4-partner group · Singapore
- Compensation shift · Corporate · Frankfurt
- Counter-offer flagged · Funds · Hong Kong
Built for both sides.
The same intelligence, pointed at whatever you need it to do.
Hire from the whole market
Not just who's on the market today — everyone who would move for the right role, mapped and reachable.
Move on real information
Where the openings actually are, what the move is worth, and when the timing works — before you make a single call.
Where we search.
Senior legal appointments across private practice, in-house, and the fast-growing legal-tech space.
How it works.
A transparent, four-stage search — fast, without cutting corners.
Define
We calibrate the role, the team, and what "right" really means.
Map
The full market, benchmarked and prioritised with real data.
Engage
Discreet, direct outreach to the people who genuinely fit.
Place
We manage approach, negotiation, and onboarding to a lasting result.
Search, rebuilt like software.
Kaplan was started by search consultants who were done with guesswork. We rebuilt legal search around data — continuous market mapping, a living network, and human judgment exactly where it counts.
Small team, serious infrastructure. We would rather run twenty searches brilliantly than two hundred blind — so when the brief is hard, that's precisely when we're worth the call.
Start a search.
Whether you're building a team or considering your own next move, let's talk — in confidence, and at the pace the search demands.