How We Help Our Clients

Our Services

Retained Executive Search & Strategic Builds

Our retained executive search practice is a strategic partnership designed to help companies build their teams.

We work exclusively and collaboratively with your leadership team. We invest the time to deeply understand your culture, your business objectives, and the evolving needs of your legal organization. This consultative approach sets the stage for long-term success and ensures every hire contributes to your mission.

What retained search means with Kerwin

Exclusive Partnership:
We act as an extension of your team and fully focused on your goals to deliver results, not just resumes.

Strategic Insight:
We bring deep market knowledge, competitive compensation intelligence, and access to top talent including passive candidates who aren’t visible through traditional recruiting channels.

High-Touch Process:
From initial discovery through candidate evaluation, offer negotiation, and onboarding, we guide the process with confidentiality and responsiveness.

The Roles & Teams We Help Build

Our retained search work supports teams at all levels, including:

General Counsels & Legal Leaders
Legal Engineers & Legal Technologists
In-House Counsel
Legal Operations & Compliance Professionals
Paralegals and foundational team roles

We tailor our search strategy to the role. Whether it’s a highly specialized leadership hire or the combination of roles needed to scale an in-house legal organization.

Contract Solutions

When organizations need immediate legal support, flexibility matters. Our contract solutions provide experienced in-house legal professionals who can step in quickly to manage transitions, handle urgent or project-based work and add capacity during periods of growth or change.

We work with scaling companies to deliver trusted legal talent across core functions, from counsel and compliance to legal operations. Every professional is carefully vetted and able to integrate seamlessly with minimal lift. This helps teams maintain momentum while longer-term hiring plans take shape.

Consulting & Market Insights

We give companies the clarity they need to make informed decisions about their legal function. Through compensation benchmarking, team structure guidance and insights drawn from ongoing conversations across the market, we help organizations design legal teams that are aligned with their goals and competitive in today’s environment.

Our work advising companies on compensation and role expectations ensures our perspective reflects how the market truly operates, not just how it’s reported.

Our Dedication To The Tech Space

Kerwin focuses exclusively on the technology sector because that’s where innovation happens and where we do our best work. Every search places us close to new ideas, emerging products and evolving business models. From early-stage startups to established market leaders, we work alongside founders, product teams and legal leaders to understand what the business needs today and where they’re going next.

Backed by deep market knowledge and decades of experience, we give clients access to exceptional, often hard-to-reach legal talent aligned with their commercial goals. Each search is a partnership, and when it’s done well, it creates momentum for everyone involved.

What Our Clients Benefit From

A partner-led, high-touch process with thoughtful candidate assessment

Access to a deep and diverse network of legal and compliance professionals

Insight into compensation and market trends that inform smarter hiring decisions

Long-term partnerships built on trust, transparency, and results

What Our Customers Say About Us

Our clients consistently recognize our ability to deliver where others cannot. They value our judgment, commitment to diversity, and focus on building lasting relationships that extend beyond a single search.

"Working with the Kerwin team to find a senior lawyer to join my team was seamless. Anne and Maddie sourced excellent candidates, vetted them with my criteria in mind, and ensured that the highest caliber lawyers came our way. The Kerwin team learned our business, translated our way of working into requirements, embedded themselves as partners, and delivered an excellent outcome."

"If you need to hire a top-notch Legal exec, Anne and her team at Kerwin are the best of the best. They know the market inside and out, have deep long-term relationships with top talent, and consistently deliver exceptional candidates - even when the requirements are highly specific and nuanced. Plus, they're genuinely great partners throughout the whole process: super responsive, genuinely collaborative, and invested in getting it right. Can't recommend them highly enough."

"Thanks again for all of your help and partnership. It's always a pleasure to work with Kerwin. I cannot tell you how much I appreciate your thoughtful, sensible advice and very effective approach. You're very good at what you do, and a really good person too. I hope to have many more assignments in the future. "

"We recently engaged Kerwin to help fill a key legal role at our company. Their team-based approach and deep connections within the Silicon Valley legal market gave us access to outstanding candidates. We greatly appreciated their professionalism, insight, and collaborative spirit throughout the process. In particular, Anne’s availability to discuss time-sensitive issues — even on weekends and evenings — reflected exceptional dedication and focus. She was a true asset to the search."

OTHER CASE STUDIES

Placing a General Counsel for a Fintech Investment Advisor

Building a Legal Team for a Series B Crypto Company

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