Biography
Lisa leads the Legal Division at Legacy Executive Search, leveraging over 25 years of experience in legal talent solutions to help her clients build modern, high-performing in-house legal teams. Her deep understanding of the legal ecosystem spans law firms, corporate legal departments, attorneys, and legal professionals in various roles, practice areas, and industries, including manufacturing, energy, healthcare, hospitality, FinTech, retail, telecommunications, and higher education. She works with clients and candidates nationwide.
Lisa previously served as Executive Director of the Enterprise Legal Solutions division at Consilio, an end-to-end legal placement and technology solutions company. Before Consilio, Lisa spent 18 years at Legility (f/k/a Counsel On Call), gaining extensive recruiting, management, and business operations experience. As the National Director of Talent, she led a 10-person recruiting team and transformed the company’s hiring process by incorporating technological solutions that improved automation, accuracy, and recruiting efficiency. Her acumen in corporate legal operations, combined with her experience as a legal recruiter and outside attorney, uniquely equips her to help clients navigate the hiring process and manage their legal department's talent acquisition needs.
Throughout her career, clients have engaged Lisa for their most critical hiring needs, from general counsel and deputy general counsel to specialized associate and corporate counsel roles. Lisa prioritizes a high-touch, bespoke search process over a transactional selling and recruiting process.
Lisa earned a B.A., magna cum laude, from The University of Georgia Honors College with an English major, then earned her J.D., cum laude, from The University of Georgia School of Law. She practiced labor and employment law for several years at Jackson Lewis and Troutman Sanders before discovering her passion for working in legal talent acquisition and law department management, making it her permanent career.
Lisa resides in Atlanta with her husband and two children. Outside work, Lisa is an avid reader and tennis player who loves visiting her daughter at Auburn and watching her son play baseball. She is also a passionate volunteer for a non-profit, Impact 100 Atlanta, where she is a founding Board Member.