WHERE PARTNER AMBITION AND
LAW FIRM GROWTH ALIGN

Stubrin & Associates, LLC advises high-performing partners and partner groups seeking to advance their careers by making the right move at the right time. Law firm leaders rely on the firm for sound counsel in securing exceptional talent to strengthen practices and shape long-term growth.

With more than two decades in legal recruiting, Stubrin & Associates, LLC draws on deep market knowledge, absolute discretion, and an extensive network in the Bay Area and beyond — resulting in placements that endure.

MEET JULIETA

Stubrin & Associates, LLC founder Julieta Stubrin brings over 25 years of legal recruiting experience to her role as a trusted advisor to senior attorneys and law firm leaders.

Julieta focuses on placing partners, partner groups, and select other attorneys into leading international law firms and high-growth boutiques in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she is based, as well as other key U.S. markets. Candidates and law firms alike rely on Julieta for her deep market knowledge, unwavering discretion, and keen ability to make matches that advance careers and grow firms. 

CANDIDATES

Julieta provides highly personalized, confidential guidance to partners and partner groups at every stage of the complex lateral move process. She also advises select other senior attorneys. The candidates she represents work across practice areas at Am Law 100 firms, regional powerhouses, and high-growth boutiques.

Her uncommon ability to connect on a personal level, ask the right questions, and share informed insight is evident in her earliest interactions with a candidate. From initial exploratory conversations (“What kind of reception could I expect if I went to market right now?”) to identifying target firms, optimizing business plans to highlight numbers and practice synergies, interview preperation, vetting offers, and negotiating compensation, Julieta’s approach is marked by transparency, integrity, and a nuanced understanding of market dynamics and the attributes that set firms apart.

Julieta is committed to helping each candidate make a move that advances their long-term career goals.

CLIENTS

Julieta handles retained and exclusive partner searches across practice areas for Am Law 100 law firms, high-growth regional firms, and elite boutiques. She also advises firm leadership on strategic expansion and the launch of new offices. She has experience opening offices in key markets including the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York, and Seattle. She brings a unique and valuable perspective to her work helping clients achieve their strategic growth goals, having spent the first half of her 25-year recruiting career in-house at a major law firm.

Julieta understands the nuanced dynamics at play within a firm, from its core values to partnership culture. She knows what it takes to secure and successfully integrate partner-level talent – and the internal roadblocks that can emerge along the way. Her aim with every client is to not only secure the right candidate for the role, but to make the process as efficient as possible. She achieves this by drawing on her extensive, ever-expanding network to identify and introduce only the most qualified candidates, and by maintaining clear, candid, and highly responsive communication every step of the way.