Joseph D. Freedman, JD – Chairman

Mr. Freedman has spent more than a decade in the search industry and is a recognized leader in the legal recruiting field. An accomplished entrepreneur, he has founded and grown several very successful businesses, including an Inc. 500 legal search company, which he began as a start-up and later sold to an NYSE corporation. Mr. Freedman has extensive experience advising, consulting and working with law firms and start up ventures. Prior to entering the legal search industry, Mr. Freedman earned a Juris Doctorate degree and a B.S. in Finance.

Richard Brock, Esq. – CEO & Managing Principal

Mr. Brock is our company CEO, Managing Principal, and Co-founder. He is a former practicing attorney and has been in the legal search industry for nearly a decade. Mr. Brock is a graduate of Washington & Lee University and the University of Alabama School of Law. His background includes several years as a litigator with a prominent Southeastern law firm. Mr. Brock has performed successful searches for some of the best law firms and corporations in the nation. He has placed attorneys at all levels of experience and also has facilitated successful law firm mergers.

Mr. Brock has launched four successful businesses, and has received numerous awards as a successful entrepreneur and business leader. Through his years of practice, success in attorney placement, and experience as a corporate leader, Richard has developed extensive contacts in the legal and business communities throughout North America.

Kevin R. Fisher, Esq. – COO & General Counsel

Kevin has a background of success as a practicing attorney, a legal recruiter and business executive. Upon graduating from Quinnpiac University School of Law, he practiced entertainment law in Nashville, Tennessee. From there, Kevin joined AMERICAN Legal Search, LLC as an attorney recruiter where he experienced great success placing lawyers across the Southeast.

After two years with AMERICAN Legal Search, Kevin joined a retail business venture and was instrumental in the growth and operational success of that company.

Recently, Kevin combined his experiences and varied background as a business executive, lawyer, and legal recruiter and became the Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel of AMERICAN Legal Search.

Rhonda Singer, Esq. – Senior Managing Director, East Coast Operations

Ms. Singer is a 1975 graduate of New York University School of Law. She received a B.A. degree from Yale, from which she graduated magna cum laude. Ms. Singer is a former practicing attorney and experienced search consultant who founded and managed a temporary attorney/paralegal search division prior to joining AMERICAN. Ms. Singer has spent the majority of her legal career in and around the New York City area. She has worked as in-house counsel for major companies and as the General Counsel of the Better Business Bureau of Metro NY. Her private practice has included practicing law as a litigation and anti-trust associate for the law firms of Whitman & Ransom (now Winston & Strawn) and Rivkin Sherman & Levy (now Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis). Ms. Singer is responsible for leading our East Coast operations.

Robin LeGrand – Managing Director, West Coast Operations

Robin has more than seventeen years of experience in the legal industry, and has worked with many of the top national law firms, including acting as the Director of Legal Recruiting for one the most highly respected national and international law firms in the country.

Robin places attorneys in all types of law firms. From small to midsized, large, local, national, and international law firms, she has a positive and recognized name in the West Coast legal community and has long-lasting personal relationships with many partners and other recruiting personnel throughout the state of California.

While Robin focuses on the California market, she also has worked with attorneys and clients in Washington and Asia. Robin truly understands the unique pressures and demands facing law firms and corporations today and strives hard to bridge the gap between the desires of her candidates and the needs of her clients. Moreover, having been active in the hiring process, she ideally knows what to look for in terms of the "the ideal candidate" and focuses on how to make the perfect match between the candidate, the law firm and the clients it services.

Robin distinguishes herself as a highly respected recruiter by her true commitment and understanding of the legal search process with the utmost professionalism and ethics with which she approaches her interactions between the candidates and the clients she services.

Carter Hoyt – Managing Director, Atlanta Operations

Ms. Hoyt is the Executive Director of the Atlanta office of American Legal Search. Prior to joining ALS, she worked as a legal recruiter for more than five years with a major search firm in Atlanta. During that time, she placed associates, partners and groups with both law firms and major corporations in Atlanta and around the country. In addition, Ms. Hoyt served for seven years as the National Director of Recruitment and Professional Development for one of the top law firms headquartered in Atlanta. Her earlier recruiting career included work for a major consulting firm and for two educational institutions in Atlanta.

In her spare time, Carter is involved in numerous outreach activities through her church and is an avid Atlanta Braves and professional and college football fan. Among her prized possessions are a baseball and sign autographed by Francisco Cabrera who delivered “the hit” against the Pittsburgh Pirates which won the National League Pennant and sent the Atlanta Braves to the World Series in 1992.

Robin Thompson – Managing Director, Houston Operations

Robin Thompson is the Managing Director of the Houston office of American Legal Search. Robin has been an active member of the Houston legal community since 1974. Prior to joining ALS, Robin worked in staffing for many years as the staffing coordinator for the legal department of a major international oil company where she staffed over 700 positions, and later, as a division manager of a nationwide search firm in Houston where she placed attorneys, paralegals and support staff. Robin’s early career included nearly 20 years of work as a senior project paralegal managing high profile MDL and class action litigation for some of the nation’s most prominent attorneys. Robin enjoys speaking to groups on issues dealing with the changing legal environment. Robin has been included as a speaker at the global legal symposium for a Houston-based energy company on the topic of the changing legal office environment; has spoken at a mentoring program for the U.S. Department of Justice; and has been interviewed for articles in magazines, including an article on the effect of Sarbanes-Oxley on the law office published in Legal Assistant Today.

She is a member of the Greater Houston Business Ethics Roundtable, the Association for Corporate Growth, and serves as VP of Programs on the Board of Directors of ARMA Houston where she has been successful in organizing legal-related professional development programs for those in the legal and information management professions. In her spare time, she is active in literacy for children programs, and loves to spend time reading to children in her daughter’s elementary school.

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