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Carter-White & Shaw
began in 1991, when Ron Jordan, our
Senior Principal Director, left his position as a legal recruiter
with Pat Franklyn & Associates to begin his own firm. Our
beginnings are humble. Armed with a volume of
Martindale-Hubbell®, a rotary phone, a single client, and his
mother’s back porch in Berkeley, California as an office, Ron
started Carter-White & Shaw to serve what was and still is an
underserved market in legal recruiting: Attorneys of color, women
attorneys, gay/lesbian/bisexual and transgender attorneys, and
disabled attorneys who are seeking employers that value diversity
and appreciate their talents.
Carter-White &
Shaw’s client base was initially composed of San Francisco Bay Area
law firms, and our candidates were only law firm partners. The firm
moved from Ron’s mother’s back porch in Berkeley to San Francisco in
1992 and to Carmel Valley in 1997. The firm moved to its current
headquarters, located on a 22-acre farm in Chestertown, Maryland, on
September 10, 2001 to service a growing nationwide clientele and
candidate base. Since the move, our presence nationwide and in
Washington, D.C. and New York in particular has substantially
increased. We aim to be the number one diversity legal search
firm.
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