The Financial and Political Risks of Lateral Hiring
07.19.2025
With studies pointing to failure rates hovering between 50 to 60%, lateral equity partner hiring remains one of the riskiest moves a law firm can make—despite its potential for big rewards.
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Howard Rosenberg Interviews David Lat, Founder of Original Jurisdiction and Legal Commentator
07.09.2025
In this episode of The Future Is Bright podcast, Howard Rosenberg, head of Talent Intelligence + Acquisitions at Baretz+Brunelle, and his co-host Chris Batz David Lat, founder of the legal newsletter Original Jurisdiction, former federal prosecutor, and creator of Above the Law. David is a...
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Howard Rosenberg Interviews Rebecca Goodman-Stephens, CEO of Moses Singer LLP
06.19.2025
In this episode of The Future Is Bright podcast, Howard Rosenberg, head of Talent Intelligence + Acquisitions at Baretz+Brunelle, and his co-host Chris Batz welcome Rebecca Goodman-Stephens, CEO of Moses Singer LLP, a highly respected mid-sized law firm in New York City. With a background in...
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Howard Rosenberg Interviews Yakub Hazzard, Los Angeles Sports Royalty and Chair of Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP
06.05.2025
In this episode of The Future Is Bright podcast, Howard Rosenberg, head of Talent Intelligence + Acquisitions at Baretz+Brunelle, and his co-host Chris Batz welcome Yakub Hazzard, chair of the Los Angeles media- and entertainment-focused boutique Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP. Yakub has decades...
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Veteran Legal Tech Growth Advisor Rachel Teisch Joins Baretz+Brunelle
05.20.2025
Baretz+Brunelle, the growth advisory firm to elite businesses in the legal industry, announced today that Rachel Teisch has joined the firm as a senior managing director and a key member of its Innovation practice. Teisch brings more than 20 years of experience scaling legal technology companies...
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Howard Rosenberg Interviews Jamie Drozd, Managing Partner at Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
04.11.2025
In this episode of The Future Is Bright podcast, Howard Rosenberg, head of Talent Intelligence + Acquisitions at Baretz+Brunelle, and his co-host Chris Batz welcome Jamie Drozd, managing partner at Davis Wright Tremaine LLP. Jamie leads one of the nation’s most forward-thinking AmLaw100 firms, and...
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Howard Rosenberg Interviews Crispin Passmore, Co-Founder of Stratify
04.04.2025
In this episode of The Future Is Bright podcast, Howard Rosenberg, head of Talent Intelligence + Acquisitions at Baretz+Brunelle, and his co-host Chris Batz welcome Crispin Passmore, co-founder of Stratify and a former U.K. regulator turned consultant. Crispin brings his cross-Atlantic perspective...
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Cari Brunelle speaks with CNN about executive actions targeting law firms
03.12.2025
Baretz+Brunelle co-founder Cari Brunelle was featured in a CNN article discussing the Trump administration’s recent executive actions targeting law firms. The article examines the unprecedented steps taken by the White House, including restricting security clearances and access to government...
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Baretz+Brunelle Acquires LexFusion
02.25.2025
NEW YORK – February 25, 2025 – Baretz+Brunelle, the growth advisory firm to elite businesses in the legal industry, announced today its acquisition of LexFusion—the accelerator of premier legal tech companies and driver of innovation for the world’s largest law departments and law firms in the age...
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Howard Rosenberg Interviews Kristina Lawson, Managing Partner of Hanson Bridgett LLP
01.22.2025
In this episode of The Future Is Bright podcast, Howard Rosenberg, head of Talent Intelligence + Acquisitions at Baretz+Brunelle, and his co-host Chris Batz speak with Kristina Lawson, managing partner of Hanson Bridgett LLP and former mayor of Walnut Creek, California. Kristina shares focus on her...
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Howard Rosenberg Interviews Mishcon de Reya’s Neville Eisenberg on The Future Is Bright Podcast
01.14.2025
In this episode of The Future Is Bright podcast, hosts Howard Rosenberg, head of Talent Intelligence + Acquisitions at Baretz+Brunelle, and Chris Batz, managing member of Columbus Street, sit down with Neville Eisenberg, senior strategy executive at Mishcon de Reya. A seasoned executive in the UK...
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Howard Rosenberg Interviews PwC’s Greg Jackson on The Future Is Bright Podcast
01.14.2025
In this episode of The Future Is Bright podcast, hosts Howard Rosenberg, head of Talent Intelligence + Acquisitions at Baretz+Brunelle, and Chris Batz, managing member of Columbus Street, sit down with Greg Jackson, legal strategist at PwC. Greg shares his insights into the dynamic UK legal market,...
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Baretz+Brunelle Promotes Molly Doherty and Laura Gingiss to Partner
01.07.2025
NEW YORK—January 7, 2025—Baretz+Brunelle, a growth advisory firm to elite businesses in the new legal economy, announced today that it has promoted Molly Doherty and Laura Gingiss to partner. “These partner promotions recognize the reality that Molly and Laura have become true leaders within B+B as...
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Howard Rosenberg Interviews Katten CEO Noah Heller on The Future Is Bright Podcast
12.23.2024
In this episode of The Future Is Bright Podcast, hosts Howard Rosenberg, head of Talent Intelligence + Acquisitions at Baretz+Brunelle, and Chris Batz, managing member of Columbus Street, sit down with Noah Heller, CEO of Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP. Noah’s journey is remarkable—he took the reins of...
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The Newest Law Firm Partner: Private Equity
10.21.2024
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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Catherine Dapra, Arnold & Porter’s Former Chief Talent Officer, Joins Baretz+Brunelle
10.07.2024
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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What NFL Draft Picks Have in Common with Lateral Hires
09.12.2024
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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Mike McNamara, Former CEO of Dentons US, Joins Baretz+Brunelle as Chief Executive Officer and Partner
04.09.2024
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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Baretz+Brunelle Partner Howard Rosenberg Named Finalist for Law.com Innovation Trailblazer Award
04.04.2024
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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Baretz+Brunelle’s Talent Intelligence & Acquisitions Group Wins the 2024 Legalweek Leaders In Tech Law Awards
01.31.2024
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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Baretz+Brunelle’s Talent Intelligence & Acquisitions Group Named Finalist in the 2024 Legalweek Leaders in Tech Law Awards
12.04.2023
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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Baretz+Brunelle Expands its New York and Chicago Offices with Four New Hires
10.30.2023
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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Baretz+Brunelle Talent Intelligence & Acquisitions Practice Grows with Addition of Jenna Robnett
09.14.2023
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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Baretz+Brunelle Expands Talent Intelligence, NewLaw Practices with Addition of Miranda Ganguly and Lindsay Perrault
06.20.2023
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 Adds Former Director of Communications at Paul Weiss
03.16.2023
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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Talent Intelligence & Acquisitions Practice Authors Article for Law360 on Top 5 Issues CTOs Expect in 2023
01.05.2023
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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Baretz+Brunelle Adds Decipher Co-Founder Howard Rosenberg, Launches Novel Practice to Help Law Firms Succeed in Lateral Hiring Boom
05.23.2022
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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Baretz+Brunelle Adds Digital Marketing Veteran Josh Anisfeld as Chief Digital Officer to Growing Digital Team
05.03.2022
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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Baretz+Brunelle Hires Prominent Communications Executives in Chicago and New York
04.28.2021
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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Baretz+Brunelle Research Uncovers Hidden Trend: 35% of Am Law 100 Firms Are Also Providing ‘Alternative’ Legal Services
10.06.2020
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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Baretz+Brunelle Statement on Racial Injustice
06.04.2020
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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Baretz+Brunelle Promotes John Ford to Partner
01.06.2020
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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Baretz+Brunelle Hires Former WPP Executive as its Chief Financial Officer
06.19.2019
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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Former Hellerman Baretz partners launch new firm
03.01.2016
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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Communications Veterans Spencer Baretz and Cari Brunelle Launch New Firm: Baretz+Brunelle
02.29.2016
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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