Amber Handman is a Managing Director at McCormack Schreiber Legal Search and is leading the firm’s expansion into the California legal market, launching its first California office in Los Angeles. Amber brings more than 30 years of legal recruiting experience to McCormack Schreiber, having spent over twenty years at a California search firm and a decade as Attorney Recruitment Manager at Arent Fox PLLC (now ArentFox Schiff), one of Washington, D.C.’s largest law firms. During her tenure at Arent Fox, Amber was responsible for recruiting and hiring more than 600 partners, associates, and law students and overseeing the firm’s summer associate programs. She also established a Diversity Committee focused on increasing the recruitment and retention of minority attorneys and started an annual city-wide summer associate event with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Since returning to Los Angeles, Amber has developed extensive relationships throughout the California legal market and has focused on recruiting partners, counsel, and associates for large, medium and small law firms, in-house legal departments, and governmental agencies and non-profits throughout California and nationally. She often works with top-tier lawyers and law firms who offer an alternative to BigLaw. She regularly speaks about the California legal market at leading law schools, including Yale, the University of Chicago, the University of Michigan, Northwestern, Columbia, NYU, the University of Pennsylvania, and Georgetown, where she meets with students and advises them on pursuing legal careers in California. Her combination of extensive law firm recruiting experience, deep relationships within the legal community, and firsthand knowledge of the California market provides her with a unique perspective in identifying and recruiting top legal talent for her clients.

Amber earned her B.A. in Psychology from Emory University. She previously served as President of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Emory Alumni Association and was a Member on the Emory Alumni Board. She has also been actively involved in community organizations in Los Angeles, including Koreh L.A., Bet Tzedek, and the Legal Services Division of The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles.