Career Agents

Career Agents is a legal recruitment agency with over 20 years of industry-leading experience, dedicated to redefining the standards of legal recruitment across the United States. Founded on the principle that hiring is an art rather than a science, Career Agents connects legal professionals with top law firms through a distinctive and personalised approach. The agency helps law firm partners, counsel, and associates identify new opportunities whilst assisting law firms and companies attract, recruit, qualify, and retain exceptional legal talent. Led by Pemberton Gordon, a recruiter ranked in the top 1% globally, Career Agents combines deep market knowledge with genuine commitment to both candidate success and client growth.

Career Agents specialises in recruiting for private equity, mergers and acquisitions, emerging companies, technology transactions, and litigation. The agency offers comprehensive services including contingency search for corporate, intellectual property, and litigation roles, retained search for diversity hiring and key rainmakers, and career coaching for partners and associates seeking advancement. The firm has successfully placed attorneys with prestigious institutions including Goodwin Procter, Jones Day, White & Case, Fish Richardson, Morgan Lewis, Gundersen Detmer, Patent Law Works, K&L Gates, and Pillsbury Winthrop, demonstrating deep relationships across the legal market.

Based in Detroit, Michigan, Career Agents serves law firms and legal professionals nationwide across the United States. Clients consistently praise the agency for its focus on business case analysis, identification of interpersonal dynamics that ensure proper fit, and ongoing support beyond initial placement. Pemberton Gordon's background spanning technology recruitment at companies like Yahoo and EMC, combined with his extensive legal sector experience, enables Career Agents to provide unique insights into market dynamics and candidate potential that extend far beyond transactional recruiting.