Our Mission
Our mission is to make career development, planning, and transition easier for lawyers. Whether you are moving up, employed, downsizing / retiring, graduating, wanting to flourish in place, or just looking for a change, we help you make career decisions, understand (and get rewarded for) your value, and position yourself to find a better fit in less time. We are committed to the highest quality career advising, writing, and client experience. All services and consultations are provided remotely, allowing us to work easily with clients around the country and the world.
Over the years, we’ve been privileged to build a top-ranked lawyer career consulting and legal résumé writing practice characterized by:
Unmatched client testimonials: Our sheer number of client testimonials is unmatched—as are their quality. Take a look at our client reviews and feedback, including a searchable database so you can find the testimonials most relevant to you.
Enduring client relationships: We are often asked to continue working with clients long after the initial services, and have developed some client partnerships that have lasted over a decade, as clients have made career changes, advanced, been elected to partnership, shifted from individual contributors to rainmakers and executives, landed their first GCs roles or public company GC roles, joined corporate and nonprofit boards, retired, or explored shifting from law practice. Our clients have referred their spouses and family, friends, colleagues, and other lawyers to us.
A large referral and returning client base: We’ve recommended by leading lawyers, hiring attorneys, legal search consultants / executive recruiters, other lawyer career coaches and résumé writers, and clients (from CLOs and managing partners to law students) since 2006. We also partner with law firms and corporate legal departments for lawyer development, outplacement, transitional, and alumni services. In addition to reviewing our client testimonials, we invite you to take a look at some feedback from legal and careers industry leaders.
Top rankings in Google: We don’t pay for ads and we don’t do link exchanges. We’re highly ranked because we’ve been around a long time and because leading publications, organizations, legal recruiters, and others find value in our services and blog content.
Below is more on how we earned those distinctions since 2006.
Bryce Legal was founded in 2006 by Shauna C. Bryce, one of the nation’s leading experts on career strategies, services, and solutions for attorneys and law school students. Shauna is a Harvard-trained attorney who served as the Chief Legal Talent Officer and Chief Diversity Officer of a multinational AmLaw 100 law firm. She also practiced law in an AmLaw 100 firm, in an AmLaw 200 firm (where she was also a member of the law firm’s hiring committee), and in a regional company’s corporate legal department.
Shauna has insisted on a similar level of excellence and commitment in building Bryce Legal’s unparalleled team. Each and every one of our team of career experts has exposure in four areas we believe are invaluable to providing the best career assistance possible for lawyers:
Legal hiring, candidate evaluation, interviewing, and recruiting
Résumé evaluations, résumé writing, LinkedIn profiles, and other career portfolio writing
Mentoring and coaching, from experienced lawyers to law students just starting their careers
Leadership roles in corporate, law firm, or public / nonprofit sectors
A career plan and résumé that’s perfect for a veteran products liability litigator in a large New York or Los Angeles firm will not work well for a recent graduate with an LLM in Tax pursuing a career in trusts and estates in a small firm outside Denver, or for an oil and gas attorney in Houston, or for a senior corporate generalist in-house at a defense contractor near Washington, DC.
Your individual career coaching, résumé, LinkedIn profile, cover letters, and auxiliary documents should be targeted to your career goals.
To do this, we give great thought to both your personal objectives and to the peculiarities and demands of the modern legal hiring market. We leverage our hiring and career development knowledge to have one-on-one discussions with you. It’s a collaborative process that builds a platform for you to grow in your career, whatever you decide to do.
Our coaching and writing clients learn not just how to recognize and seize opportunities, but also how to create them. We work with attorneys to develop action plans enabling them to take charge of their situations, whether they’re looking to:
Excel as legal team leaders or members
Prepare to make career, practice area, and geographical changes
Get ready for interviews
Address weak spots (or perceived weak spots) in their skills, experience, executive presence, and résumé
Build and use networks for short-term goals (like immediate job placement) and long-term goals (like an eventual client-base, establishing oneself as a thought leader, and corporate board or other career opportunities)
Why work with Bryce Legal? How can you choose the best lawyer career coach and legal résumé writer for you? Here’s what just a few our clients say. For more information, please see Our Client Testimonials.
“The résumé worked great, Shauna. I applied cold for the GC position through a job posting; I didn't even work with a recruiter. It worked beautifully and it took me five minutes to apply. I've never even received a call for an interview when I've applied for jobs online before. And this time I didn't just get an interview; I got the job.”
- DGC securing first GC role
“Shauna, you helped me crystalize what I needed to think about and my guiding principles as I made my career choices.”
- Law firm partner exploring career options
“Recruiters found me for my GC current role and my last SVP-GC role through my LinkedIn profile so I owe it all to Shauna that they found me!”
- Life sciences GC
“If there's one regret, Shauna, it's that I didn't take your advice to be more proactive earlier.”
- Chief Privacy Officer for digital product company
“Shauna, you set my career set up for launch! You helped me realize that I need to know what I want, helped me understand the distinction between a legal specialist and generalist -- and that I'm a generalist. Since we talked, I had the opportunity to grow my team and it's been really cool. Now I've just accepted an opportunity reporting directly to the GC of [NYSE-listed cloud computing company]. The first thing the GC said to me at my interview was, 'OMG, your résumé was amazing. I've seen so many résumés, but yours does a great job of showing impact, not only individually but also as a team. Usually I have to work hard to tease it out, but yours just jumped out.' I also want to mention your tip about using our networks to get past HR was really important. HR wasn't interested in me. But my contact got my résumé in front of the GC and an hour later I call the call to interview. Shauna, you are a genius.”
- Executive level Silicon Valley counsel
“Hi Julie, I just wanted to give you an update following our session. I ended up doing well in those interviews (and subsequent rounds) thanks to your helpful tips. I did get some challenging questions, but was able to stay calm and used it as an opportunity to evaluate the companies and whether I would want to work for them. I’m very happy to let you know I’ve received verbal offers from both companies this week. You helped me change my mindset and attitude about interviewing and I’m so grateful for your help! And you really gave me the boost of confidence I needed to get over my nerves. Thank you so so much!!”
- In-house counsel seeking out new opportunities
“After we updated my LinkedIn profile, that's when I really saw an uptick in recruiter inquiries for GC opportunities. So thank you for that, Shauna.”
- DGC preparing for GC roles
“I have accepted a General Counsel and Corporate Secretary position at a publicly traded technology company..., so I am very happy and grateful for your work with me. It is no coincidence that my résumé got a lot of traction after our work together. So, thank you, Shauna.”
- Public company GC
“The résumé and LinkedIn profile you put together for me has generated an astonishing amount of interest, Julie. They've performed beyond my expectations. I've interviewed with Amazon, Intuit, Playstation, NASDAQ, Madison Square Garden, Adobe, Robinhood, and others. Most of them just hit me up on LinkedIn.”
- Digital products lawyer
“Hi Julie, Thank you for the productive session. The screening interview went very well and I'll be meeting with additional members of the practice in the coming days. It's great to get into the swing of things with interviews and I'm excited to see if this position is going to be a good fit for me.”
- Midlevel associate interviewing during relocation