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Solo and Small Firms

Aug. 20, 2011

Recruiting strategy is key to success for Caldwell Leslie

In a post-recession legal market in which firms have become more inclined to cherry-pick lateral partners with lavish books of business, Caldwell, Leslie & Proctor PC is one small firm that's taken a different approach.


By Casey Sullivan


Daily Journal Staff Writer


LOS ANGELES - In a post-recession legal market in which firms have become more inclined to cherry-pick lateral partners with lavish books of business, Caldwell, Leslie & Proctor PC is one small firm that's taken a different approach, recruiting almost exclusively from the federal clerkship system.


Partners say the lure is in law clerks' understanding of how to make persuasive arguments ...

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