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You don't have to be ready to leave to learn about your options.
80% of lawyers we place have only practiced at one firm. We help lawyers learn when they're ready to consider other opportunities.
Get in touchIs this you?
A few moments when a conversation is worth having.
You do not need a reason to talk. But if one of these sounds familiar, it is usually a good time.
The timeline you were told about keeps moving, and no one will quite explain why.
The matters crossing your desk stopped matching the science you know best.
The place you joined is not the place you work at now, and the conflicts list keeps growing.
You are working like a partner and being paid on a number that is a few years old.
A say in the cases you take and the clients you build, beyond the hours you record.
You are not unhappy, exactly. You would just like to know what else is out there.
What a conversation looks like
How the first conversation works.
The first step is a conversation about your practice and where you want to take it. Here is what that does and does not mean.
Nothing leaves the room. We do not announce that we are talking, and we never contact your current firm.
Most people we talk to are not moving this year.
Your name goes nowhere until you tell us to send it: no firm, no application, no reference.
Khurram Naik and Emma Larson, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Who you'd be talking to
You'd be talking to us. Just us.
Freshwater Counsel is Khurram Naik and Emma Larson, a husband-and-wife team in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, focused entirely on elite legal talent. You deal with the two of us personally, from the first conversation to the final offer.
We handle every search ourselves, so we only take on work we believe in.
Where to go next
Keep reading, at your own pace.
Everything here is meant to be useful whether or not we ever speak.