International
2004
Founded in New York
10,000+
Placements made
23
More than two-thirds of our engagements come from existing clients
9
Offices worldwide, headquartered in New York
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“Beatrice T. S. O’Brien is a trusted advisor, a skilled strategist, and a tireless advocate who understands that a partner’s career move is about far more than a new position.”
John J. Meadows
Partner, Houston
Holland & Knight
Strategic advice for the decisions that define your future.
Law Firms
For chairs, managing partners and practice leaders
Growth priorities, partner and practice-group additions, and strategic combinations, discussed in confidence and grounded in a detailed view of the market.
Discuss Your Firm’s Strategic Priorities →Corporations
For general counsel and executive leadership
Legal leadership appointments and team requirements, aligned with the business and where it is going.
Discuss a Leadership Appointment →Partners & Practice Groups
For partners and teams weighing a move
Where your practice belongs next: assessed carefully, prepared thoroughly and negotiated in full.
Explore Your Next Strategic Move →Five advisory practices. One standard of attention.
Each engagement is led personally, from the first confidential conversation to the final terms.
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Law Firm Growth & Partner Advisory
Growth priorities, practice alignment and the partners most likely to strengthen a firm, informed by a close understanding of law-firm economics.
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Practice Group Strategy & Team Transitions
Assessing opportunities for established teams and coordinating confidential group moves between firms.
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Law Firm Mergers & Strategic Combinations
Strategic fit, objectives, culture and practice alignment, with discreet approaches to the leadership of potential partner firms.
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Corporate Legal Leadership Advisory
Legal-team requirements, leadership alignment and strategic in-house appointments.
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Associate Development & Career Progression
Practice development, firm suitability and considered progression for associates and senior associates.
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For individual lawyers: Consulting & Career Strategy, one-to-one guidance on positioning, preparation and negotiation.
Beatrice T. S. O’Brien
Principal
Beatrice founded Attorney Placements International in New York in 2004, after practicing as an associate at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft and Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel.
For more than two decades she has advised partners, practice groups and law-firm leaders on decisions that change the shape of a practice or a firm, in the United States and internationally.
Speak With Our FounderHer approach
Understand the practice first. The clients, the economics and the ambitions behind it, before any opportunity is discussed.
Prepare every conversation. The right firms, the right people, and a clear account of the value being brought.
Stay involved to the end. Through negotiation and the final terms, personally.
“…she takes a broad view of how a potential lateral move fits into your career development and offers thoughtful strategic advice.”
Charles Cording
Partner
Willkie Farr & Gallagher
Credentials
University of Oxford
CGAP 2026 (Certified Generative & Agentic Professional)
Harvard Law School
Mediation & Negotiation, 2021
Cornell University
Mediation & Arbitration, 2025–26
In their words.
Partners, practice groups and law-firm leaders on working with Beatrice.
“She provided candid insights throughout the process, prepared me thoroughly for each stage of discussions, and served as a trusted advisor whose judgment I relied on consistently.”
Brian Sieben
Partner, Head of Private Client Services New York
Sheppard Mullin
Selected engagements.
A small selection of engagements that have been publicly announced. Most of our work remains confidential.
Team transition
Mexico City
A team of transactional lawyers joins Baker & McKenzie’s Mexico practice across corporate and M&A, infrastructure and telecommunications.
Team transition
New York
A labor and employment team joins Seyfarth Shaw’s New York office.
International partners
Los Angeles & San Francisco
Two international employment partners join Seyfarth Shaw.
Partner team
Dallas
Restructuring and bankruptcy partners join Akerman.
Practice group
Intellectual property
An intellectual property group joins Clark Hill.
Partner
Houston · 2026
An energy litigation partner joins Holland & Knight.
Engagements across New York, Washington D.C., Chicago, Houston, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney, Mexico City and beyond.
Our offices.
Headquartered in New York, with affiliated offices in eight cities worldwide.
Headquarters
New York
United States
London
United Kingdom
Sydney
Australia
Hong Kong
China
Shanghai
China
Johannesburg
South Africa
New Delhi
India
Montreal
Canada
Prague
Czech Republic
Innovation Labs
Bringing new tools to the practice of law.
Through Innovation Labs, Beatrice leads the development of AI-enabled tools for legal practice: mediation and negotiation intelligence, proposal intelligence, and platforms for legal engagement and dispute resolution.
JustMediation.ai · JustMediationHub · JustMediationHub Products · JustMediation Research Studio · JustLaw · RFPElevate · Intellix8
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Insights & News.
Holland & Knight19 October 2026
Seasoned Energy Litigator John Meadows Joins Holland & Knight in Houston
Sheppard Mullin5 June 2026
Sheppard Expands Private Client Services Team On The East Coast With Partner Brian Sieben
Kilpatrick Townsend29 April 2026