For law firms
Targeted search built around your firm's culture and goals. Engagements often begin with a clear read on the market before any outreach begins.
For attorneys
Every conversation is confidential. No resume blasting, no pressure. If Oleven can help, it will. If not, you'll hear that too.
Market intelligence
Ongoing, direct conversations with litigation attorneys across California - comp trends, lateral movement, firm culture, and candidate availability.
One point of contact
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Todd handles every search personally. No handoffs, no account managers. You talk to the person doing the work.
About Oleven
Discreet searches. Lasting placements.
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Oleven is a boutique legal recruiting practice focused exclusively on defense litigation. Every search is handled directly by Todd Bradfield - no hand-offs, no junior associates, no resume blasts.
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Todd brings over 17 years of recruiting experience to Oleven, with a background placing technical talent at companies including Amazon Web Services, HP, and Kofax. In 2023, he made the deliberate move to focus entirely on the legal market - specifically, litigation attorneys and the defense firms that hire them across Southern California.
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That background matters. Recruiting is a craft, and the discipline of understanding a market, identifying who's actually open to a conversation, and moving quickly and confidentially translates directly into legal. What Oleven adds is deep, ongoing engagement with the Southern California litigation market - tracking movement, comp trends, and firm culture in real time so that searches start with real intelligence, not guesswork.
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The focus is intentionally narrow: defense litigators, Southern California, long-term fit. That's it.