Callahan Search is an exclusive legal recruitment firm operating across the world's major markets — a small number of retained mandates, executed with discretion, precision, and genuine global reach.
Senior legal search across the world's financial and legal capitals — with the local insight that only a genuinely global network provides.
We focus on the most senior appointments in the profession, wherever in the world they sit.
Lateral partner hires and practice-group leadership across private practice.
GC, deputy GC, and senior in-house appointments for companies and funds.
Managing partners, COOs, and leadership hires that shape a firm's direction.
Non-executive, board, and advisory appointments with a legal remit.
Coordinated moves of multi-partner teams and practice groups.
Building and staffing new offices in fast-growing legal markets.
A retained model, built around depth of attention rather than volume.
We take a limited number of assignments at a time, so each receives our complete attention.
Consultants who know the people and the market in each of the regions we cover.
The most senior moves are conducted in confidence, from first contact to completion.
Deep coverage across the practice areas where senior legal appointments are most active — in every market we operate.
Callahan Search was built to do one thing exceptionally well: exclusive, retained legal search at the most senior level, anywhere in the world.
We are deliberately small and senior — a handful of consultants who work a limited number of mandates at a time, each personally. What we forgo in scale, we make up for in reach, judgment, and discretion.
No volume, no databases sent in bulk. Only considered introductions between exceptional lawyers and the organisations that need them.
Whether you are building a leadership team or considering your own next move, we would be glad to talk — in confidence, wherever you are in the world.