A lawyer should be able to explore the market without exposing themselves — and should always know exactly where their name has, and hasn't, been sent. Those two convictions are the whole company.
CounselLedger was built by the Kaufman family in partnership with John Hatchl — CEO of JW Hatchl Associates and a longtime legal recruiter. Between us, years of placing attorneys taught us exactly where the process breaks.
Talented lawyers wouldn't look, because a résumé in the wrong inbox could get back to their firm. Job listings hid the employer's name until you'd already committed. And once you handed your profile to a recruiter, you had no idea where it went, or how many desks it landed on. Every part of that asks the candidate to trust and hope.
So we built the alternative — a platform where you stay confidential until you decide otherwise, where every listing names the real firm, and where you can look up exactly where you've been submitted, by whom, and when. Not features bolted onto an agency. The reason the company exists.
Your profile reaches an employer without your name, firm, or contact details — only your practice, seniority, and an anonymized summary. Your identity is revealed only when you approve it — and your profile is never sent to your own current firm.
Every listing shows the actual hiring firm. No "confidential AmLaw 100 client," no guessing who you're really applying to.
Look up your own email and see every place your profile has gone — which employer, which role, current status. No taking a recruiter's word for it.
The hiring firm pays the placement fee, never the attorney. Applying and using the platform costs you nothing.
On split placements: 47% to the desk that brings the candidate, 47% to the desk that brings the role, a flat 6% to the platform. Source both sides and you keep 94%.
Behind the scenes, CounselLedger tracks legal openings across law firms and in-house teams every day, and matches them to attorneys by practice area and location. What you see is current and relevant — the roles that actually fit your background and where you actually want to be — not a stale job board you have to dig through.
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Discretion and trust aren't a policy we adopted; they're how a family does business when its name is on the door. That's who's behind every submission.
Leads the practice and its client relationships; the recruiter behind the platform's candidate-first design.
Co-founder from JW Hatchl, bringing decades of legal-recruiting relationships and judgment.
Leads relationships with hiring firms and in-house teams — securing the engagements that put our candidates in front of the people who hire, and turning open roles into committed searches.
Builds the matching and market-intelligence engine that keeps opportunities current and relevant.
Drives candidate experience and the confidentiality-first tools at the heart of the platform.
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