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Lee Allbritton is a founding partner in the attorney recruiting firm, Amicus Search Group. With offices in Austin, Dallas, and Houston, Amicus is a leading, full-service legal search firm.

Lee Allbritton, Esq. - Principal
Office:
Austin, TX & Houston, TX
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A native Texan, Lee Allbritton has been engaged in the attorney search and legal recruiting industry since 1997. After leaving the private practice of law where he worked for both a national, Am Law 100 law firm, as well as a well known Houston trial boutique, Lee desired to use his legal skills in a different manner. He found in legal recruiting the opportunity to make a real difference in individuals' lives while continuing to communicate, both verbally and in writing, at the highest level of advocacy.

Over the course of his career, Lee has placed more than 500 attorneys, including General Counsels, Associate General Counsels, law firm partners, of counsel, and associates, as well as scores of other legal professionals. Lee's clients are Amicus' clients and they range from the largest international law firms, to practice specific boutique firms throughout Texas, and increasingly, the nation as a whole. Lee is particularly pleased with Amicus' reputation as one of Texas' "go-to" firms for out-of-state law firms desiring to open and grow rapidly a Texas law office. With a 90% retention rate of placed partners over a 3-year period (for placed partners more than five years, that number is still an impressive 85%), Lee and Amicus are satisfied that they offer real value to both attorney and employer alike -- statistics that are unheard of in the legal recruiting industry.

Outside of the office, Lee is passionate about his family (wife, Anissa, and daughter, Evan) and hiking, cycling, kayaking and otherwise enjoying the exceptional beauty of the Texas Hill Country. An avid non-fiction reader, Lee's reading encompasses domestic and international political science, with a keen interest in energy policy -- traits that make him ideally suited to the needs of many of our clients who are either oil and gas companies or private firms which serve them. Also, he is on the Houston Volunteer Lawyers Program, Inc. (HVLP) board, a non-profit organization that provides legal representation to low-income citizens.

Lee is an honors graduate of the University of Virginia and a cum laude graduate of the University of Houston Law Center.

Lee is resident in Amicus' Austin office, but is frequently in Amicus' Houston and Dallas offices as well.


Alysa Schildcrout is a founding partner in the attorney recruiting firm, Amicus Search Group. With offices in Austin, Dallas and Houston, Amicus is a leading, full-service legal search firm.

Alysa Schildcrout - Principal
Office:
Dallas, TX & Houston, TX
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As an attorney recruiter, Alysa specializes in the placement of partners, practice groups, acquisitions, and management level in-house counsel. In addition, Alysa has improved the lives of hundreds of law firm associates by placing them in highly coveted attorney jobs throughout Texas. Alysa graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 1989 with a degree in finance and accounting. She then practiced in public accounting at Deloitte & Touche. Following public accounting, she received her MBA from Texas Tech University in 1994. Alysa has been involved in the recruiting industry since 1996.

Alysa currently serves on the Executive Board for the Board of Trustees for Akiba Academy as well as the VP for Head of School Support and Evaluation. She also enjoys spending time with her family, husband Andrew, daughter Jordan, twin sons Jacob and Joshua, their two chocolate labs, Davi and Goliath and the newest addition to the Schildcrout family, a golden retriever named Sugar.

Mike Danforth - Managing Director – Amicus Consultants
Office:
Dallas, TX
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Mike joins Amicus with a long history of success at his own legal search firm. Prior to his career in legal search, Mike was involved in consulting with Booz Allen Hamilton and KPMG Peat Marwick.

He has also served as President of a multi-faceted manufacturing / retail operation and was Vice President and Secretary of a major cosmetics firm. Mike has done graduate work in psychology in addition to holding a Bachelors degree. He was named #1 in serving the legal profession in John Sibbald's The Career Makers.

Leo PerezLeo Perez, ESQ

Office: Dallas, TX

Senior Search Consultant

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As a Senior Search Consultant, Leo Perez specializes in placing associates of all levels in international, national and regional law firms. In addition, he also places in-house counsel. Leo enjoys working closely with candidates to assist them in identifying the right opportunities that are consistent with their career goals and ambitions.
Prior to joining Amicus, Leo was a partner in a boutique law firm. He received his Bachelor of Science from The University of Texas in Austin, his J.D. from St. Mary's University School of Law and his LL.M. in International and Comparative Law from Georgetown University Law Center.
In his free time, he enjoys reading, movies, cooking and spending time with his wife.

Diane Huynh, ESQ
Office: Houston
Senior Search Consultant
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As a Senior Search Consultant, Diane specializes in placing associates of all levels in local, regional, and national law firms, in-house counsels, and partners.  Prior to joining Amicus Search Group Diane practiced law at several international law firms and well-known Houston litigation boutiques.  She received her Bachelor of Science, summa cum laude, in Psychology and Master of Social Work, summa cum laude, from the University of Houston-Central Campus. She continued on to receive her J.D. from the Syracuse University College of Law.

Born in Vietnam, Diane and her family emigrated to the United States in 1980 as political refugees after her father escaped a communist-regime re-education camp in northern Vietnam following a five-year imprisonment.  In her free time Diane enjoys jewelry-making, interior and architectural designs, and architectural model-building, not to mention vacationing with her husband Brett and step-son Evan in their family vacation homes in Sequim, WA and Sedona, AR.


 

Viridiana Feldman
Office: Dallas
Senior Search Consultant
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Resident in Amicus' Dallas office, Viridiana Feldman ("Viri") specializes in the representation of private law firms and in-house legal departments for which she recruits and places law firm partners and associates, as well as various management-level in-house counsel throughout Texas.  A veteran executive search consultant, Viri brings years of experience in executive search gained from working in various industries before specializing in the legal field.  Viri chose a career in executive search because it appeals to her innate desire to work on a human level, taking pride in assisting busy professionals improve their own professional careers.

Originally from Mexico, Viri is a graduate of one of Mexico's preeminent universities, El Tecnologico de Monterrey, and emigrated to the United States in 1996 in order to obtain a degree from the University of Texas at Arlington.  Fully bilingual in English and Spanish and a dual US/Mexican citizen, Viri brings a unique worldview to Amicus which many of our clients require.

On a personal note, Viri is married and the mother of two precocious daughters.  In addition to her family, Viri finds personal fulfillment outside of the office through the arts, travel, and outdoor activities.


 

The independent Amicus companies provide law firms and corporations with a comprehensive and unified collection of professional staffing services. In addition to Amicus Search, the Amicus family of companies include Amicus Solutions, Amicus Consultants and Amicus Energy Search. Amicus Solutions provides both law firms and corporations with qualified attorneys on a project and interim basis, as well as temporary and direct hire administrative personnel. Amicus Consultants assists law firms of all sizes in developing strategic growth initiatives. Amicus Energy Search provides energy organizations, ranging from Fortune 500 corporations to oil and gas start-ups, with highly qualified professionals of all backgrounds and experience levels.