Big Law Recruiter Ordered to Pay $3.6 Million to Former Employer

Sept. 16, 2022, 7:41 PM UTC

A Big Law headhunter has been ordered to pay his former employer $3.6 million in damages in a dispute that pulls the curtain back on the lucrative world of recruiting for prominent firms.

A federal judge in Austin, Texas, on Thursday ordered Evan Jowers to pay the award to MWK Recruiting, an Austin-based company now known as Kinney Recruiting. Jowers stole MWK candidates and placed them at firms shortly after leaving the company, MWK alleged in a lawsuit filed in 2018.

The list of firms where Jowers placed lawyers is a “who’s who” of Big Law. It includes Baker McKenzie; ...

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