Specialized recruiting for law firms, professional services teams, and high-growth technology companies.

MAPSSG helps clients hire hard-to-find legal, professional services, engineering, product, data, infrastructure, and security talent through targeted, relationship-driven recruiting.

For more than 20 years, we have partnered with organizations that need fast candidate delivery, strong market knowledge, and a hands-on search process built around quality — not resume volume.

Trusted by leading firms and high-growth companies

Recruiting partnerships built through repeat work.

MAPSSG partners with law firms, professional services organizations, and venture-backed startups on searches where precision, speed, and candidate quality matter.

Trusted by clients across legal, professional services, and technology

Cleary Gottlieb
Sullivan & Cromwell
Davis Polk
Fenwick
SendSafely
Function Health
ZeroPath
Firecrawl
CoinTracker
mabl
Aloe Identity
COREIR
Cleary Gottlieb
Sullivan & Cromwell
Davis Polk
Fenwick
SendSafely
Function Health
ZeroPath
Firecrawl
CoinTracker
mabl
Aloe Identity
COREIR

100% of featured clients have returned with additional searches.

Two focused recruiting practices

Specialized search across two clear markets.

Legal & Professional Services Recruiting

We help law firms and professional services organizations hire high-impact legal staff and business professionals across business development, marketing, finance, billing, conflicts, legal technology, knowledge management, training, operations, administrative leadership, and select attorney searches.


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Startup Engineering, Product, Data & Security Recruiting

We help high-growth technology companies hire software engineers, product-minded technical talent, data engineers, infrastructure and platform engineers, security and appsec talent, founding engineers, and technical leaders.


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Recent results

Search results that reflect quality and speed.

MAPSSG focuses on targeted searches, passive candidate outreach, and qualified submissions — not resume volume.

24

placements in the last 12 months

48 hrs

average time to first qualified submission

80%

submission-to-interview rate

90%

offer acceptance rate

100%

of featured clients returned with additional searches

Recent hard-to-fill searches include a Search Engineer hired in under 30 days, a Founding Engineer hired in under one week, Legal Business Development searches, and an AppSec Lead search.

Passive candidate recruiting

Built around candidates who are not actively applying.

The best candidates are rarely sitting in an applicant pile. MAPSSG focuses on targeted outreach, market mapping, and relationship-driven recruiting to reach people who are successful where they are but open to the right next opportunity.

We help clients understand the market, refine the pitch, engage candidates with context, and move quickly when the right person is ready to talk.

How we support each search

  • Targeted outreach
  • Market mapping
  • Candidate calibration
  • Role and pitch refinement
  • Interview process support
  • Offer and acceptance management

Clients and candidates

Focused support on both sides of the search.

For Employers

Whether you are hiring a legal business development leader, an application security lead, a founding engineer, or a senior member of your professional staff team, MAPSSG helps you move quickly without lowering the bar.

  • Legal business development
  • Finance, billing, conflicts, and operations
  • Software engineering and product engineering
  • Infrastructure, platform, data, and security
  • Startup leadership and founding team hires


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For Candidates

MAPSSG represents selective opportunities with law firms, professional services organizations, and high-growth technology companies. We help candidates understand the role, team, hiring process, compensation range, expectations, and fit before moving forward.

  • Clear role context
  • Direct communication
  • Interview preparation
  • Compensation and process guidance
  • Support through offer and acceptance


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Why MAPSSG

Focused recruiting without resume spam.

Clients and candidates work with MAPSSG because the process is targeted, direct, and built around real fit.

20+ years of recruiting experience

Long-term recruiting judgment across specialized markets and hard-to-fill searches.

Two clear practice areas

Focused coverage across legal/professional services and startup technical recruiting.

Passive candidate sourcing

Every search is built around targeted outreach, not just inbound applicants.

Fast qualified delivery

48-hour average time to first qualified candidate submission.

High signal submissions

80% submission-to-interview rate across recent searches.

Strong close support

90% offer acceptance rate with close process support through final decision.

Hiring for a hard-to-fill role or exploring your next opportunity?

MAPSSG helps clients and candidates connect around roles where fit, timing, and precision matter.