Our Services
Private Practice
We specialise in discreet, targeted senior level and partner headhunting within selected private practice areas, including:
• Corporate
• Litigation and Dispute Resolution (including Arbitration and Mediation)
• Property (Commercial and Residential Real Estate)
• Employment
Our searches exclusively target roles that influence the strategic direction and growth of leading law firms. We connect you with lawyers who not only fulfil technical requirements but also demonstrate leadership, commercial insight, and genuine long term value.
Every assignment is bespoke, completely personalised and tailored specifically to your firm’s unique needs. We avoid off the shelf solutions and promise transparency, clarity, and open communication throughout the process. This approach enables us to build lasting relationships, fostering mutual trust, repeat business, and sustainable growth.
Retained Search
Practice Expansion
Strategic Advisory
Retained Search
At ThirtySix, we offer a tailored retained search service designed for mission critical, sensitive, and highly specialised roles. We go beyond traditional recruitment, acting as trusted advisors to our clients. Our approach guides the entire process, from defining the role to ensuring a smooth integration of the new hire within the team.
With a deep understanding of both our clients’ needs and the talent landscape, we provide invaluable insights that drive successful outcomes. As a boutique firm, we are deeply committed to our clients’ success, making us the ideal partner for their most important searches. Our team’s knowledge of the industry, down to the individual level, combined with our access to hard to find talent, ensures we deliver results that truly make an impact. Every retained search at ThirtySix is partner led and supported by a dedicated, expert team.
What We Deliver
Retained search means more than filling a role, it’s a focused, strategic partnership built on trust, insight, and precision. We work closely with you to define the opportunity, engage the right people, and secure individuals who will make a lasting impact.
A partner led, research driven search process tailored to your firm’s needs
Market intelligence to shape the brief and calibrate expectations
Discreet outreach to highly targeted individuals, not just active candidates
Honest insight throughout the process to support confident decisions
Support through negotiation, onboarding, and integration
A committed, advisory-led relationship from first conversation to final hire
Practice Expansion
Strategic growth requires the right people. Whether you are entering new markets, developing a new practice, or considering lateral moves or acquisitions, we support law firms with the key hires and teams that unlock growth.
From individual partners to entire practice groups, we help shape the future of firms through people led expansion. Our work often begins before a role is even defined, advising on structure, identifying opportunities, and facilitating the discreet conversations that drive change.
What We Deliver
We enable law firm growth through the people who drive it. Whether it’s a single partner hire, a strategic team move, or the early conversations that lead to a merger, we’re focused on the same outcome: helping you build a stronger, more capable firm. Every engagement starts with the right question—not “who’s available,” but what does your firm need to move forward?
Partner level and senior associate hires aligned with your firm’s long term goals
Strategic team moves to unlock new markets or practice areas
Targeted introductions for lateral group hires and bolt on acquisitions
Discreet facilitation of early conversations around team lifts or small scale mergers
Market mapping and intelligence to assess opportunity and competitive positioning
Process support through to onboarding and long term integration
Strategic Advisory
People are the most important factor in a firm’s long term success.
At ThirtySix, we provide strategic guidance rooted in deep market knowledge and a clear understanding of what drives high performing legal teams. Whether you are planning for succession, assessing growth opportunities, or considering key leadership moves, we offer objective insight and tailored support to help you make confident, people led decisions that shape the future of your firm.
What We Deliver
Succession planning support focused on identifying and preparing future leaders within the legal market
Competitor and peer firm intelligence to understand how others are structuring their senior teams
Proactive talent mapping to help you assess who is out there before you engage in a search
Feasibility insight on potential hires, team moves, or lateral growth opportunities
Remuneration insight to benchmark against market expectations at partner and senior levels
Strategic sounding board for founders and managing partners considering people-led growth or change