Smock Sterling Strategic Relationship

At The McKinley Group we specialize in assisting law firms with their growth strategies by presenting partners, practice groups, and law firm merger opportunities.  These highly researched and recruited partners and groups represent potential law firm growth by acquisition that may not have been initially recognized or viewed as an opportunity.  We also assist partners, groups and law firms of all sizes, who desire a better situation, by taking a look at new opportunities.  In both cases, whether representing a firm that wants to grow through acquisition, or a partner or firm interested in a new opportunity, we manage the process from introduction to successful post-offer conclusion with the highest degree of professionalism and confidentiality.

When law firms need strategic consulting services that do not include the acquisition of partners or practice groups, we recommend Smock Sterling (www.smocksterling.com). The Principals, John Smock, John Sterling and Peter Giuliani, together bring a collective 87 years of experience in strategic consulting, and are one of the preeminent legal consulting firms in the United States today.  As a focused strategic management-consulting firm, Smock Sterling provides Strategic Planning, Merger Advisory Assistance, Practice Group Management, and Strategic Management Issue Resolution. 

Since Smock Sterling does not participate in any recruiting or acquisitions of partners and groups and does not broker mergers, we are able to engage in a truly unbiased strategic partnership with them for our clients throughout the United States.  All too often, legal placement firms masquerade as consulting firms with only one goal: that of recommending their own partners and/or merger opportunities.  Our strategic partnership with Smock Sterling allows us to recommend their unbiased approach to law firm growth and future planning since they do not do recruiting projects of any kind.  As John Sterling of Smock Sterling has said, ”We don’t have the resources, the structure or, frankly, an interest in conducting contingent search. We recommend The McKinley Group for acquisition of partners, practice groups and law firm merger opportunities, because search projects for law firm growth can be managed by them without any conflict of interest in the consulting process.”

At The McKinley Group, we are proud to have a strategic partnership with Smock Sterling.  Let their years of experience and ours be the key to your law firm’s future growth and success.