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| ScreenshotBCG Attorney Search | |
| Type of site | Recruitment |
|---|---|
| Available in | English |
| Owner | A. Harrison Barnes |
| URL | BCG Attorney Search (US) |
| Commercial | Yes |
BCG Attorney Search is a staffing company that caters to lawyers and law professionals seeking employment in law firms and corporate legal departments. It also publishes the BCG Attorney Search Guide to America’s Top 50 Law Schools, as well as a state of the market report for attorneys looking for open positions. The firm's owner and founder, Andrew Harrison Barnes, was also involved in a lawsuit involving free speech rights watched by media professionals.
BCGSearch.com has offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York City, Chicago, Atlanta, Washington, D.C., Houston, Orange County, California, and Palo Alto, California. It is headed by Harrison Barnes, founder of the Employment Research Institute. The Employment Research Institute operates over 150 employment websites, including job sites LawCrossing.com, Granted.com and Hound.com (which collects job data from employer websites, aggregating information directly from their sites) as well as legal referral site Law.net.
In a case that was argued before the Texas Supreme Court, Barnes accused a former BCGSearch.com employee, Robert Kinney, of bribery. Kinney accused Barnes of defamation and asked for an injunction against BCG and JD Journal, a legal blog also operated by Barnes. Kinney’s lawsuit was dismissed on the grounds of unconstitutional limitations on speech; an Austin Appeals Court also found for BCG on the grounds that a permanent injunction would be prior restraint under the laws of the Texas Constitution. The Texas supreme court found in favor of Kinney. The case is currently being appealed to the US Supreme Court.
The ongoing legal dispute between Harrison Barnes and former BCGSearch.com employee, Robert Kinney, involving litigation in Texas and California, has moved forward in recent months through deposition testimony given by the parties, and though other discovery production allowing the parties to obtain evidence needed to prove their respective claims. Barnes claims that Kinney used bribery and unethical kickbacks to obtain employment placement for BCG clients. Kinney claims that Barnes engaged in defamatory conduct by maintaining Kinney’s employment biography in the BCG’s website’s archive. Both parties claim the other engaged in malicious prosecution by bringing lawsuits without merit. Trial is set for April 24, 2017, in Barnes’ malicious prosecution action in the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, Case No. BC600371. A history of the litigation can be found on JD Journal. Additional information about the case can be found in this court document.
In 2016, BCG Attorney Search was ranked the #1 legal recruiting firm in the United States by LawCrossing.
References
- "Educational Debt Burden and Career Choice: Evidence from a Financial Aid Experiment at NYU Law School" (PDF). Harvard University.
- ^ "Legal Recruiter Asks Texas High Court To Block Web Posts". Law360.
- ^ "Bloggers versus the courts". Columbia Journalism Review.
- "Contact BCG Attorney Search". BCG Attorney Search.
- "About". HB.org.
- "Texas Supreme Court to Consider Online Defamation Case". Texas Tribune.
- "Kinney v. Barnes (Opinion)". Justia.
- "Online Services - LA Court".
- Barnes, Harrison. "SLIME FOR CASH: Above the Law Joins Albert's (a.k.a. Robert Kinney's) Decade-Long Ballistic Cyberbullying Campaign to Destroy Competitor for Firing Him". JD Journal. JD Journal.
- "A. Harrison Barnes Minute Order (5-24-16)". Scribd.
- "BCG Attorney Search - Legal Recruiter Company Profile". LawCrossing.com.
External links
- Official Site
- SLIME FOR CASH: Above the Law Joins Albert’s (a.k.a. Robert Kinney’s) Decade-Long Ballistic Cyberbullying Campaign to Destroy Competitor for Firing Him