WASHINGTON, D.C., April 10, 2023 – Baker Botts L.L.P., a leading international energy, technology and life sciences law firm, is pleased to announce that Dani Barnard has joined the firm as its first-ever Chief Recruiting Officer. In this capacity, she will lead the firm’s talent acquisition efforts firmwide in all 12 Baker Botts offices.

In this newly created role, Dani will have strategic oversight of recruiting initiatives and will work with senior leadership to design a strategic recruiting plan for the firm, devising and executing recruitment, integration and talent strategy across all practice groups.

“Dani’s stellar track record will be highly complementary to our overall strategy,” said John Martin, Managing Partner of Baker Botts. “The foundation for our distinctive strengths rests on our business acumen and technical expertise. Her focus on hiring deeply talented lawyers and other personnel who will provide an ideal strategic fit with client objectives is unparalleled. Dani will be instrumental in helping us maintain our momentum and continuing our tradition of supporting our clients on many of their most business-critical matters. We are delighted to welcome her to the firm.”

“Dani’s history of accomplishments speak for themselves, and she is ideally suited to partner with firm leaders to accomplish one of our most important, ongoing priorities—finding and recruiting the best people,” said Nick Peacock, Chief Operating Officer of Baker Botts. “Her reputation for building high-performing teams is superb, and we are excited that she will be embarking on the next stage of her impressive career with Baker Botts.”

Over the past 20 years, Dani has recruited thousands of attorneys at all levels, with a particular focus on equity-level recruiting and movement of groups. Prior to joining Baker Botts, she spent a decade as the Chief Recruiting Officer at another AmLaw 100 law firm, where she was responsible for leading lateral partner, associate and public policy recruiting in 23 offices nationwide and at times for overseeing professional development and diversity & inclusion efforts at the firm.

“I am thrilled to join an extremely talented, collaborative and entrepreneurial team of lawyers and staff at Baker Botts, which is experiencing a great deal of momentum in what has been an otherwise challenging period in the broader legal industry of late,” she said. “I look forward to helping the firm build upon its stellar platform and prominence in a number of high-profile sectors and practices and to support the growth and development of the firm’s lawyers at all levels.”

Dani was formerly President of Barnard Legal, LLC, a legal search and placement firm specializing in identifying sophisticated partners and practice groups seeking new positions within law firms, lobbying shops and companies. As President, she handled partner and group searches for law firms and assisted law firms in opening offices in new legal markets. Before founding Barnard Legal in 2007, Dani spent time as the Director of Partner Recruiting for an AmLaw 100 international law firm. She received her B.A. in Administration of Justice, magna cum laude, from Salve Regina University.

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