Amy McCormack is one of the Founders and Co-President of McCormack Schreiber. She has been a legal recruiter in Chicago for more than 30 years and has extensive experience working with attorney candidates at all levels, but primarily focuses on lateral partner and in-house recruiting. Amy is a frequent speaker on legal recruiting and trends in the marketplace and was selected for inclusion in the Lawdragon Global 100 Leaders in Legal Strategy and Consulting for 2022, 2023 and 2024.
Amy currently serves on the Executive Board of the Patrick Williams Foundation, a non-profit organization with the mission of providing support, assistance, and resources to minority and socioeconomically challenged entrepreneurs and their small businesses in Chicago. From 2004 to 2008, Amy served as an elected Member of the Board of Directors of the National Association of Legal Search Consultants (NALSC), the only organization which sets ethical standards for the legal recruiting profession. She also served from 2009 to 2013 as an elected Member of the Board of Education of Oak Park and River Forest High School, and she previously served as a Board Member and Chair of the Collaboration for Early Childhood in Oak Park.
Amy’s legal experience includes practicing labor and employment law with McGuireWoods LLP and DLA Piper US LLP in the Washington, D.C. area. She earned her B.A. from the University of Richmond in 1986 and her J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1989.
