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Marsden is a market-leading legal search, recruitment, and strategic assignments specialist. Marsden is one of the largest independent owner-managed companies in the global legal search and recruitment sector with offices across North America, Europe, the Middle East and Australia.Marsden operates on a global basis advising on mergers, office launches and build outs, lateral partner and associate hiring, in-house, professional support and interim solutions. Dave heads the US practice and is based in the Los Angeles office. He specialises in recruiting Partners and Associates across all major US markets with an emphasis in the Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, and Texas markets.Dave is one of the most well-known international legal recruiters globally having placed hundreds of lawyers into the US, London, Australian, Canadian, Asian and Middle East markets. He has managed multiple exclusive international recruitment campaigns for AM Law 100, Global 100 and Magic Circle firms. He is widely regarded as a market leading recruiter for international lawyers relocating to the US. Dave is regularly asked to advise law firm executive and management teams, practice group leaders, and Recruitment Managers with regards global talent acquisition and hiring strategies. Prior to relocating to California, he was a Partner in Marsden’s Sydney office for seven years.Dave is known for his pragmatic approach to recruitment and for fostering long-term relationships with the partners, lawyers and firms he works with. He has deep market knowledge of the US and International legal markets and regularly produces thought leadership articles and market commentary. He is a regular commentator for leading publications such as The American Lawyer, Law 360 and Law.com. He has presented at numerous legal industry careers events and panel discussions.

Solicitor with Pinsent Masons' tier 1 ranked Employment team based in Glasgow. I primarily advised global plcs in the retail, infrastructure and energy sectors on a range of employment issues.I also spent time in the Corporate, Private Equity, and Real Estate groups.

Secondment from Pinsent Masons to Standard Life's in house legal team - advising on a range of contractual issues for the UK business. Responsibilities included negotiating and drafting Recruitment, Creative and Consultancy Services Agreements.