Major, Lindsey & Africa and Reed Smith LLP co-hosted a dinner this week in Washington, D.C., welcoming Jason L. Brown as he begins his tenure as President & CEO of the Association of Corporate Counsel. Deborah Ben-Canaan, Heather Fine, and Melba Hughes were pleased to connect with legal leaders from across the DC market for the festive evening.
Major, Lindsey & Africa
Staffing and Recruiting
Hanover, Maryland 84,710 followers
The Global Navigators of Legal Careers | Changing Lives One Placement at a Time
About us
Major, Lindsey & Africa is the world’s leading legal search and talent solutions firm. Founded in 1982, the firm works with law firms and organizations globally to address their most critical legal talent needs at the senior level, including law firm partners, general counsel, compliance and privacy leaders, and C suite executives. Major, Lindsey & Africa delivers both permanent and interim talent solutions, helping organizations build, augment, and optimize legal leadership teams as business needs evolve. With 27 offices and more than 200 search consultants worldwide, the firm combines deep market insight with a highly specialized, advisory approach to support organizations and professionals at pivotal moments of growth and change. To learn more about Major, Lindsey & Africa, visit www.mlaglobal.com and follow MLA on LinkedIn, X , Facebook , YouTube, Bluesky and Instagram.
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- Staffing and Recruiting
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- 201-500 employees
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- Hanover, Maryland
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- Privately Held
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- 1982
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- Permanent Placement, Partner, Associate, General Counsel, Corporate Counsel, Law Firm Management, New Market Entry, Legal Staffing, Executive Coaching, Maturity Assessment, Interim Legal Talent, and Alternative Legal Service Provider
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AI governance is often framed as risk management. That focus is necessary, but incomplete. The larger risk for boards may be standing still while AI reshapes value creation across industries. In Video 2 of our AI in the Boardroom series, Michael Sachs discusses how boards can embed AI oversight into governance structures and shift the conversation from fear to responsible growth. https://bit.ly/497wUrW #BoardGovernance #ResponsibleAI #GrowthStrategy #MLAGlobal
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Congratulations to Shannon Drake on his appointment as Chief Legal Officer at PT Solutions Physical Therapy. Major, Lindsey & Africa partnered with PT Solutions Physical Therapy on this search. Shannon brings more than two decades of healthcare legal leadership experience spanning mergers and acquisitions, regulatory compliance, litigation, and enterprise risk management. The search was led by Bob Graff and Anne Miller of MLA’s In-House Counsel Recruiting Practice in Atlanta. We wish Shannon and the PT Solutions team continued success. https://bit.ly/49B9lrG #MLAGlobal #LegalLeadership #ChiefLegalOfficer #ExecutiveSearch #MLAPlacements
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MLA Interim has recently placed attorneys into the following roles: From targeted expertise to immediate bandwidth support, interim legal talent continues to play a strategic role for modern legal teams. Thoughtfully matched professionals, ready when the work demands it. Our 2026 Interim Global Legal Talent Snapshot highlights how organizations are responding by increasingly relying on experienced, on-demand interim counsel to bridge bandwidth and expertise gaps without the time or cost of full-time hiring. https://bit.ly/40vxcUC #InterimLegalTalent #ALSP #LegalStaffing #GlobalLegal #MLAInterim
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Legal teams are under pressure to do more with less. The way work gets done is evolving. Legal teams are being asked to do more with less, all while managing increasing complexity and cost pressure. As an alternative legal service provider, Major, Lindsey & Africa’s Interim Legal Talent team delivers experienced, on-demand legal and compliance professionals who can step in quickly and keep work moving. Learn how interim support can help your team stay focused and effective. Looking for interim legal, privacy or compliance talent? Let us help you find the best people to enhance your team. https://bit.ly/3RgHZAX #MLAGlobal #InterimLegalTalent #ALSP #InHouseCounsel #LegalOperations
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What separates first-time General Counsel who ramp quickly from those who struggle in the role? This example from Dimitri Mastrocola offers a clear answer, and a reminder that early impact is often driven by how effectively a GC reads and aligns with the business from day one. At Major, Lindsey & Africa, these are exactly the patterns we evaluate when advising on first-time GC hires: how quickly a leader can build credibility, identify where the legal function can unlock value, and translate that into a mandate the business can support. Connect with us to discuss how we help organizations get critical GC hires right, especially in high-stakes first appointments. #GeneralCounsel #InHouseCounsel #ExecutiveSearch #MLAGlobal
𝗦𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝗱 𝗻𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗮 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗹. 𝗪𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻 𝟵𝟬 𝗱𝗮𝘆𝘀, 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗘𝗢 𝘁𝗼𝗹𝗱 𝗺𝗲 𝘀𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗵𝗮𝗱 𝗺𝗮𝗱𝗲. I placed a Deputy GC into her first General Counsel role at a PE-backed financial services company about two years ago. She had spent a decade in-house, managed complex transactional and regulatory work, and ran a small team. Whether a first-time GC could handle the seat was the open question through most of the search. In her first week as GC, she scheduled 30-minute conversations with every department head, the CFO, the head of HR, the VP of operations, and two board members. She did not lead with legal's agenda. She asked each of them the same three questions: 1) What is the biggest business problem on your plate right now? 2) Where does the legal team slow you down? 3) What would change if you trusted the legal function completely? By the end of week two, she had mapped where legal touched the business and where the friction points were. She identified that commercial contracts were the single biggest bottleneck, with a review process that averaged 12 days from submission to execution. She designed a tiered approval framework that reduced that cycle to five days for standard agreements, with full review reserved for deals above a defined threshold. 𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗲𝗱: • She solved a visible business problem first. Every department head experienced the contract bottleneck. Fixing it earned her credibility before she asked for anything. • She listened before she diagnosed. The stakeholder conversations told her what the business actually needed from legal. • She shaped her own mandate. She turned the listening tour into a 90-day plan and brought it to the CEO. He approved it within two days. When I touched base with the CEO three months after the GC's start date, he told me she was changing (in a positive way) how the leadership team and business stakeholders were thinking about the legal team. A year later, she was promoted to oversee compliance and risk alongside the legal function. That had been the watch-out on her through the interview process. What she did in her first 90 days settled any lingering concerns for good. The question I get asked most about first-time GCs now is whether they can read the business fast enough to shape the GC mandate themselves. #GeneralCounsel #InHouseCounsel #ExecutiveSearch
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For partners evaluating their next move, boutiques are increasingly offering something beyond a title or platform: control. In Law360 Pulse, Dave Beran shares why autonomy, rate flexibility, and relief from conflicts are driving partner candidates to reconsider what the “right” practice environment looks like, particularly as AI lowers infrastructure barriers. https://bit.ly/4dm4LyE #MLAGlobal #Law360Pulse #PartnerCareers #LegalCareers #BigLaw #BoutiqueFirms #LegalTalent #LawFirmStrategy #AIinLaw
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Cost pressure continues to reshape in-house legal teams. Across regions, workloads are increasing while budgets are not keeping pace. In response, organizations are relying more heavily on interim support through an alternative legal service provider model and reassessing when permanent hires make sense. Explore how legal departments are adapting in the Q2 2026 Global Legal Market Conditions Report https://bit.ly/491sX86 #MLAGlobal #LegalOperations #AlternativeLegalServiceProvider #InHouseCounsel
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Private equity’s growing presence in the legal sector raises questions that go well beyond regulation or ownership rules. In this Law360 Pulse article, Kirsten Keegan Vasquez and Allison Rosner examine where institutional capital collides with the realities of partnership models, reputational capital, and professional ethics, and what that tension means for the long-term structure of law firms. https://bit.ly/4dm0zPi #mlaglobal #legalcareers #legalcommunity #lawyers #legaljobs
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What is driving the movement of law firm talent between Australia, New Zealand, and London? In this Market Spotlight, Ricardo Paredes and Ria Karnik share what they are seeing across the Sydney–London legal talent corridor, including why demand remains strong in London, which transactional practice areas are most active, and how candidate motivations shift depending on the direction of travel. Watch for their perspective on how market forces, transferable skillsets, and lifestyle considerations are shaping cross‑border lateral moves. https://bit.ly/43gEmNY #MLAGlobal #LegalRecruiting #LawFirmTalent #AustralianLegalMarket #UKLegalMarket