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In a recent New York Law Journal article, Howard Rosenberg, partner and head of Baretz+Brunelle’s Talent Intelligence & Acquisitions practice, details a potential trend coming to legal: the involvement of private equity funding in lateral hiring. As Howard shares, with law firms relying more than...
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NEW YORK — October 7, 2024 — The savviest law firm leaders fully appreciate they are in the talent business. And as the war for talent intensifies, with lateral moves rising by double digits year-over-year, law firms simultaneously face a tidal wave of internal talent dynamics fundamental to their...
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A recent analysis found that half the quarterbacks selected as first-round NFL draft picks turn out to be busts. Lateral partner hiring has a similar failure rate: nearly 50% of lateral partners leave their new law firm within five years. In both industries, evaluators tend to prioritize...
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NEW YORK — April 9, 2024 — Baretz+Brunelle, a growth advisory firm to businesses in the legal industry, announced today that Mike McNamara, former CEO of Dentons US, will become its first chief executive officer. McNamara joins B+B after more than a decade in executive leadership at Dentons, where...
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New York — April 4, 2024 — Howard Rosenberg, partner and head of the Talent Intelligence & Acquisitions team at Baretz+Brunelle, has been shortlisted for the Innovation Trailblazer Award in connection with Law.com International’s 2024 Legal Innovation and Technology Awards. Howard and TIA are using...
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New York – January 31, 2024 – Baretz+Brunelle’s Talent Intelligence & Acquisitions (TIA) practice won the 2024 Legalweek Leaders in Tech Law Awards for the Innovation in Hiring, Staffing & Recruiting category. This award honors individuals and organizations for their achievements in innovation in...
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New York – December 4, 2023 – Baretz+Brunelle’s Talent Intelligence & Acquisitions (TIA) practice has been named a finalist in the 2024 Legalweek Leaders in Tech Law Awards, which honor individuals and organizations for their achievements in innovation in the past year in an array of categories...
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NEW YORK — October 30, 2023 — Baretz+Brunelle, a leading advisory firm to the legal industry, continues to add to its depth and capabilities with the addition of four new associates. Two will be in B+B’s New York office and two in its Chicago office.
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NEW YORK — September 14, 2023 — Jenna Robnett is the latest addition to the Talent Intelligence & Acquisitions team at Baretz+Brunelle. Before joining B+B, Jenna interned with Pfizer’s global security department and the National Air and Space Intelligence Center, the Department of Defense’s primary...
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NEW YORK — June 20, 2023 — Baretz+Brunelle, a leading communications and business advisory firm to the legal industry, has added legal industry veterans to two of its new and growing service lines. Miranda Ganguly, a longtime legal recruiter, has joined B+B’s Talent Intelligence & Acquisitions...
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Baretz+Brunelle, a leading communications and business advisory firm to the legal industry, announces the addition of Xenia Kobylarz, the former director of communications at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. She joins B+B as a senior managing director in the firm’s New York office. “Xenia...
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In an article for Law360, B+B’s Talent Intelligence & Acquisitions team, Howard Rosenberg, Aaron Byron, and Madeline Boorse, uncover the top five issues chief talent officers of the AmLaw200 foresee impacting lateral talent in 2023. The team contacted more than 130 chief talent officers and other...
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NEW YORK — May 23, 2022 — As competition for lateral talent at law firms reaches new levels of intensity and expense, Baretz+Brunelle has observed firsthand the challenges firms encounter in hiring, integrating and retaining promising talent. Those challenges led to the creation of a...
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CHICAGO – May 3, 2022 – With demand for digital marketing services growing unabated among its client base of law firms and legal technology providers, Baretz+Brunelle has added a new chief digital officer, Josh Anisfeld, to lead its growing digital team. Anisfeld joins Baretz+Brunelle from Heidrick...
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CHICAGO and NEW YORK - April 28, 2021 – Baretz+Brunelle today announced the hiring of two accomplished communications veterans: Laura Gingiss, former head of business marketing communications for Deloitte Consulting LLP, and Wayne Kessler, who most recently led communications efforts at Stroock &...
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NEW YORK – October 6, 2020 – The world’s largest law firms have been quietly mobilizing to recapture billions in revenue that has flowed in recent years to technology-driven upstarts known as alternative legal service providers, according to a report released today by Baretz+Brunelle, a leading...
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We’ve realized something important this week. No matter how much you think others know what you stand for and what you believe in, they don’t – unless you tell them. So here goes.
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NEW YORK — January 6, 2020 — Baretz+Brunelle announced today that it has promoted managing director John Ford to partner. “On behalf of all the firm’s partners, I am absolutely thrilled to call John our partner,” said Baretz+Brunelle co-founder Spencer Baretz. “With hubris intended, John is one of...
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NEW YORK — June 19, 2019 — Continuing its investment in its growth, Baretz+Brunelle announced today the hiring of veteran finance executive Anthony Tramontana as its chief financial officer. With over 20 years’ experience in the advertising and corporate communications industries, Tramontana most...
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NEW YORK – March 1, 2016 – Spencer Baretz and Cari Brunelle have launched a firm called Baretz+Brunelle after leaving Hellerman Baretz, where they were both partners, earlier this month. The New York-based firm will counsel law firms, businesses, and public figures, the consultancy said in a...
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NEW YORK – February 29, 2016 – Communications veterans Spencer Baretz and Cari Brunelle today announced the launch of their new firm: Baretz+Brunelle. The former Hellerman Baretz Communications partners left HBC earlier this month to form their New York-based firm. Baretz and Brunelle will continue...
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