Our Mission
We bring together the perfect ingredients to build your legal career.
“I probably talked to 20 résumé writers and your model is the most collaborative. It also requires to *you* to be on—and to produce and produce and produce—every minute of our call. I don’t think most people can do that, and I don’t think many people put their money where their mouth is like you do.”
Our mission is to make career development, planning, and transition easier for lawyers. Whether you are moving up, employed, downsizing / retiring, graduating, wanting to flourish in place, or just looking for a change, we help you make career decisions, understand (and get rewarded for) your value, and position yourself to find a better fit in less time. We are committed to the highest quality career advising, writing, and client experience. All services and consultations are provided remotely, allowing us to work easily with clients around the country and the world.
“Your openness and transparency is a fabulous selling point.”
Not sure how to choose the best lawyer career coach or professional legal résumé writer for you?
Over the years, we’ve been privileged to build a top-ranked lawyer career consulting and legal résumé writing practice characterized by:
“This has been wonderful. My wife, who’s a lawyer, has been asking about this process. I think she’s going to be your next client!”
“You just gave me such valuable framing for these issues. Talking to you has been just so valuable. My friend had spoken so highly of you, and she was absolutely right. :)”
Unmatched client testimonials: Our sheer number of client testimonials is unmatched—as are their quality. Take a look at our client reviews and feedback, including a searchable database so you can find the testimonials most relevant to you.
Enduring client relationships: We are often asked to continue working with clients long after the initial services, and have developed some client partnerships that have lasted over a decade, as clients have made career changes, advanced, been elected to partnership, shifted from individual contributors to rainmakers and executives, landed their first GCs roles or public company GC roles, joined corporate and nonprofit boards, retired, or explored shifting from law practice. Our clients have referred their spouses and family, friends, colleagues, and other lawyers to us.
A large referral and returning client base: We’ve recommended by leading lawyers, hiring attorneys, legal search consultants / executive recruiters, other lawyer career coaches and résumé writers, and clients (from CLOs and managing partners to law students) since 2006. We also partner with law firms and corporate legal departments for lawyer development, outplacement, transitional, and alumni services. In addition to reviewing our client testimonials, we invite you to take a look at some feedback from legal and careers industry leaders.
Top rankings in Google: We don’t pay for ads and we don’t do link exchanges. We’re highly ranked because we’ve been around a long time and because leading publications, organizations, legal recruiters, and others find value in our services and blog content.
Below is more on how we earned those distinctions since 2006.
Personal Knowledge of Legal Hiring Processes and Trends
“I didn’t fully appreciate the nuance of hiring a résumé writer who didn’t know legal hiring and wasn’t a lawyer. I’m not proud of the original résumé I paid for and it doesn’t reflect who I am. Yours is so much better, so much more in-depth. As you’ve been asking me questions, I’m like, ‘Oh, she really gets it.’ You’re really good at this and I’m so glad I came to you. I should have hired you from the beginning.”
Bryce Legal was founded in 2006 by Shauna C. Bryce, one of the nation’s leading experts on career strategies, services, and solutions for attorneys and law school students. Shauna is a Harvard-trained attorney who served as the Chief Legal Talent Officer and Chief Diversity Officer of a multinational AmLaw 100 law firm. She also practiced law in an AmLaw 100 firm, in an AmLaw 200 firm (where she was also a member of the law firm’s hiring committee), and in a regional company’s corporate legal department.
Shauna has insisted on a similar level of excellence and commitment in building Bryce Legal’s unparalleled team. Each and every one of our team of career experts has exposure in four areas we believe are invaluable to providing the best career assistance possible for lawyers:
Legal hiring, candidate evaluation, interviewing, and recruiting
Résumé evaluations, résumé writing, LinkedIn profiles, and other career portfolio writing
Mentoring and coaching, from experienced lawyers to law students just starting their careers
Leadership roles in corporate, law firm, or public / nonprofit sectors
Recognition that Every Lawyer is Different
“I did everything you told me to do, said everything you told me to say. It was almost like you gave a word-for-word script. And [former federal agency Commissioner] responded exactly the way you predicted. I wish could have recorded it for you! I’m so pleased at how the conversation went and laid the groundwork for my job search.”
A career plan and résumé that’s perfect for a veteran products liability litigator in a large New York or Los Angeles firm will not work well for a recent graduate with an LLM in Tax pursuing a career in trusts and estates in a small firm outside Denver, or for an oil and gas attorney in Houston, or for a senior corporate generalist in-house at a defense contractor near Washington, DC.
Your individual career coaching, résumé, LinkedIn profile, cover letters, and auxiliary documents should be targeted to your career goals.
To do this, we give great thought to both your personal objectives and to the peculiarities and demands of the modern legal hiring market. We leverage our hiring and career development knowledge to have one-on-one discussions with you. It’s a collaborative process that builds a platform for you to grow in your career, whatever you decide to do.
Focus on What Matters to You
“I consider every last penny I’ve spent with you to be an investment. This is the first time in my career that I’ve been so proactive in my decision-making. It’s been an absolute pleasure working with you, and I’ve been sharing your information with a lot of legal recruiters in my area.”
Our coaching and writing clients learn not just how to recognize and seize opportunities, but also how to create them. We work with attorneys to develop action plans enabling them to take charge of their situations, whether they’re looking to:
Excel as legal team leaders or members
Prepare to make career, practice area, and geographical changes
Get ready for interviews
Address weak spots (or perceived weak spots) in their skills, experience, executive presence, and résumé
Build and use networks for short-term goals (like immediate job placement) and long-term goals (like an eventual client-base, establishing oneself as a thought leader, and corporate board or other career opportunities)
Are you legal recruiters? Can you place me in a job?
“I’m amazed how many recruiters have called from various AmLaw 50 law firms.”
Bryce Legal is a career portfolio writing, career coaching, and career development firm. We coach lawyers throughout the job search process, from getting the job search started and preparing for job interviews to evaluating offers and negotiating salary. However, we not a legal recruiting firm or a legal search firm. We are not headhunters and we do not handle any lawyer placement, whether lateral attorney placement, in-house attorney placement, or temporary attorney (contract attorney) placement.
Over the years, we have developed relationships with legal recruiters and executive recruiters (both retained and contingency), and they have referred top candidates to Bryce Legal so that we can create a suite of career documents that empowers recruiters to advocate for those lawyers. Recruiters have also contacted us to let us know of their openings so we can refer clients to them.