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Danielle Massari

Danielle Massari

Partner

danielle@mdlegalrecruiters.com
cell (503) 488-0244

Danielle has more than a decade of legal recruiting experience working with the most elite lawyers and firms in the world. Prior to co-founding Massari & Darling, Danielle was the head of operations for a leading legal recruiting firm. She also served as the recruiter for Gibson Dunn & Crutcher’s Orange County Office and was the President of the Orange County Area Legal Recruitment Association (OCALRA). Danielle is a frequent speaker at legal recruiting and talent conferences and seminars. Danielle’s unique background on both sides of the table (in-house law firm hiring and placing lawyers at leading firms) provides law firms and talent with the inside edge. Her background gives her deep insight into how leading law firms make in-house hires, as well as how to work with large law firms to ensure that talent matches the opportunity and firm culture. For candidates, her deep law firm relationships ensure that decision makers will see the best talent—talent is not just another resume on a recruiter’s desk. She focuses her legal placement practice on assisting talented attorneys in evaluating career opportunities and large law firm placement searches for key attorneys.

Alanna Darling

Alanna Darling

Partner

alanna@mdlegalrecruiters.com
cell (949) 468-9329

Alanna Darling has more than a decade of business and legal experience including positions as the General Counsel of an NYSE listed company, Managing Director of a bulge bracket investment banking firm, and attorney at Morrison & Foerster. These experiences uniquely position her to guide leading companies and firms as they evaluate legal talent, and to guide high caliber attorneys evaluating career opportunities. While at Morrison & Foerster, Alanna served on the Hiring Committee, enhancing her experience and understanding of how large law firms select and attract talent. Alanna earned her undergraduate degree from UCLA (summa cum laude) and her Juris Doctorate from Northwestern University. She focuses her legal placement practice on assisting senior attorneys, partners and in-house executives evaluating career opportunities, large law firm placement searches for key attorneys and partners and public companies searching for the right executive level talent.

Jonathan Burky

Jonathan Burky

Recruiter

jonathan@mdlegalrecruiters.com
office (503) 200-5606

Jonathan Burky has more than twenty years of recruiting, legal, and engineering experience. For several years, he focused on financial services litigation at Reed Smith’s office in San Francisco. He also has experience with real estate and insurance litigation. He started his legal career at a non-profit organization in Boston, practicing mainly IP and employment law. Jonathan earned undergraduate degrees in Civil Engineering and Engineering Science from Washington University in St. Louis (“WashU”) and Principia College (with Honors), respectively. He also earned his Juris Doctorate from WashU Law, where he was an Associate Editor of the Global Studies Law Review. Before law school, Jonathan was a Civil and Environmental Engineer at URS Corporation (now AECOM). He gained engineering and management skills managing environmental remediation projects throughout the Bay Area. After practicing law for more than ten years, he transitioned to legal recruiting. As an experienced legal recruiter, he helps highly qualified attorneys find their next role at, primarily, AmLaw 100 law firms.

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