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Our firm provides expert guidance to lawyers seeking to advance their careers. We also provide strategic direction to law firm management, corporate legal departments and the financial services industry on issues ranging from hiring laterals to group acquisitions, firm mergers, establishment of new offices, retention of talent and the structuring of compensation.
Our extensive industry insight, dynamic network of professionals (each consultant at A.W. Rush is a former practicing attorney), innovative multinational reach (Boston office, and affiliate offices in London, Los Angeles, Paris, and Washington, D.C.), and unparalleled capabilities allow us to assist law firms, corporations, financial entities and educational institutions to attract, manage, and retain talent.
A.W. Rush is the trusted market leader in global search matching exceptional attorneys and compliance professionals with leading law firms, legal and compliance departments, and financial and commercial institutions worldwide. Our innovation, commitment to excellence, and global reach have enabled A.W. Rush to emerge as the top firm in legal search. Our success is your success.
A.W. Rush & Co., The Right Partner
Elyce is a founding partner of A.W. Rush & Co. She started her career in legal search in the spring of 1991, rapidly becoming one of the preeminent leaders in the legal search field. At the onset of her career, she helped develop one of the first temporary attorney placement agencies in New York, in addition to working on permanent placements. Elyce then chose to concentrate on the permanent placement side, preferring to assist candidates and clients with long-term career strategies. Elyce is known for her outstanding record of making placements that last, cultivating and maintaining strong, lasting relationships with her candidates and clients.
Elyce graduated magna cum laude from Tufts University and received her J.D. degree from Duke University School of Law. Elyce was an employment litigation associate before moving into the real estate practice at Epstein, Becker & Green; she then practiced with Pircher Nichols & Meeks as a real estate associate. Elyce is involved with the Food Bank of Westchester and Friends of the IDF, and is a supporter of the Columbia University Men’s Soccer team.
Patrick Gray is the Assistant Director of attorney placement at A.W. Rush & Co. He focuses on associate, counsel, and partner placements. Patrick started his legal career as a corporate associate in the New York office of Skadden Arps, practicing within the Corporate Tax and Structured Finance groups. He has had a variety of professional experience since including at start-up companies and working in a Special Projects role for Peter Thiel. His primary experience, and his passion, is Legal Recruiting. Patrick has over 10 years of legal recruiting experience–working both as a legal recruiter in NYC as well as the head of all hiring for the Bay Area offices of Berry Appleman, a leading Corporate Immigration law firm. He loves helping attorneys find a position that moves both their career and their life in a more positive direction.
Patrick received his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and his J.D. from NYU.
Founding Partner Emeritus
Renée Berliner Rush is a founding partner of A.W. Rush & Co. Renée entered the legal search field in the fall of 1985. Since that time she has been a leading force in legal search. Renée is frequently called upon to speak at law firm management retreats and before law firm executive committees. She has placed hundreds of lawyers throughout the world, advised scores of executive committees on hiring and retention, and she has authored numerous legal recruitment articles over the years. In addition to placing partners in law firms, Renée specializes in orchestrating law firm mergers, assisting law firms establish new offices and placing general counsels into corporations on a worldwide basis. She provides career counseling to the professionals with whom she works and is regularly engaged as a life coach and cultural advisor.
Renée is included in the Worldwide Who’s Who and is acknowledged in the roster of Top Female Executives; she is also a member of the National Association of Professional Women. Renée was on the Regional Board of the ADL, is a Board Member of MultiStages, and is involved with the Shoah Foundation. Renée graduated magna cum laude from Barnard College of Columbia University. She went on to receive her J.D. from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.
