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Practices

By practice. Nationwide.

Every practice hires a little differently. Pick yours to see how Lateral Lock runs that search, from the first conversation to the offer.

Transactional

Banking & Finance

Lender-side leveraged finance and borrower-side work make for very different moves. We pin down your product and your typical client before any firm hears your name.

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Bankruptcy / Restructuring

Debtor side, creditor side, liability management, distressed M&A. Restructuring hiring follows the cycle, so timing and positioning drive how we run your search.

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Capital Markets

Issuer side or underwriter side, IPOs or high-yield, debt or equity. Lateral Lock maps your offering mix first, then approaches groups that run the same kind of book.

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Executive Compensation / ERISA

Deal-side benefits work and stand-alone ERISA counseling land in different groups. We look at your mix and open conversations where it is valued.

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Funds / Investment Management

Formation, secondaries, regulatory advice for advisers. We find out where your time actually goes and pitch you to fund groups that need that exact skill set.

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M&A / Private Equity

Public deals, sponsor-side buyouts, carve-outs: the search starts by sorting out which of these fills your hours, then goes to the groups whose deal flow looks like yours.

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Project Finance / Energy

Renewables, LNG, midstream, infrastructure. Lateral Lock researches where energy and project work is a core practice and matches your deal experience to those groups.

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Real Estate

Acquisitions, development, finance, leasing, funds. A real estate move starts with a clear picture of your book and the firms whose real estate platform fits it.

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Tax

Transactional tax, partnership tax, and controversy each hire on their own track. Lateral Lock identifies your lane and researches the tax groups built around it.

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Technology Transactions / Privacy

Licensing, SaaS deals, data privacy and AI governance change quickly. We present your experience in terms technology groups recognize, then target the teams growing in that area.

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Trusts & Estates

Estate planning, trust administration, and private client work often rest on long relationships. Lateral Lock handles these moves carefully and targets private client groups with a matching client base.

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Intellectual Property

IP Litigation

Patent trials, PTAB proceedings, and trade secret cases each hire differently. We match your technical background and docket to the IP litigation teams that need them.

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Patent Prosecution

Your degree, art unit experience, and portfolio management are what firms screen for. Lateral Lock targets prosecution groups that work in your technology area.

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Trademark & Copyright

Brand portfolios, enforcement, and copyright counseling. We sort out whether your strength is the prosecution side or the dispute side and approach firms that way.

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Litigation & Disputes

Appellate

For appellate lawyers the writing sample does the talking. We put your briefs, arguments, and clerkships in front of the small set of groups where appellate work is the main job.

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Commercial Litigation

Commercial litigators get judged on trial experience, depositions taken, and the size of the cases they have handled. We lead with those facts when we approach commercial litigation groups.

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Insurance

Coverage, reinsurance, and insurance regulatory work run on different client relationships. We find out which side you are on and approach groups accordingly.

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International Arbitration

Commercial and investment-treaty arbitration, with seat, language, and institution all in play. We present your case history to the arbitration groups that hire for that profile.

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Labor & Employment

Single-plaintiff defense, class actions, traditional labor, and executive counseling. We define your practice clearly so firms see the fit right away.

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Securities Litigation

Class actions, SEC enforcement, derivative suits. We place your docket next to the defense groups handling similar matters and make the case for the fit.

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White Collar / Investigations

Internal investigations, government enforcement, and DOJ or SEC defense are relationship-driven. Lateral Lock handles these searches quietly and vets each group before it ever sees your name.

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Regulatory

Antitrust

Merger clearance, cartel defense, and civil antitrust litigation call for different people. The search starts with your mix and goes to the groups staffing that kind of work.

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Environmental

Permitting, enforcement defense, and ESG-driven transactional work. Lateral Lock looks at the regulatory regimes you know and finds the groups facing those issues.

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Government Contracts

Bid protests, compliance, False Claims Act defense, cleared work. Lateral Lock matches your contracting experience to the groups serving that client base.

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International Trade

Customs, sanctions, export controls, and trade remedies sit at the intersection of law and policy. We research which trade groups fit your agency experience and dig into each one for you.

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Life Sciences / Healthcare

FDA regulatory, healthcare compliance, life sciences transactions. We figure out whether your experience is regulatory, deal-side, or both before we approach firms.

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Regulatory

FCC, FERC, banking regulators, consumer protection. A regulatory move depends on the agency you know, so we start with the agency and work back to the firms.

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We can still help. Lateral Lock runs searches across many more specialties than the ones above. Tell us about your practice and we will walk you through how we would approach it.

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Across every practice.

The attorney overview and the attorney FAQ apply across groups. The recruiter is introduced on Your Recruiter.

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Placing associates, counsel, and partners nationwide, including New York, Washington, DC, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Dallas, Austin, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Seattle, Miami, Denver, San Diego, Wilmington. Firms hiring in these areas can start with For Firms or the hiring-firm FAQ.

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