Your future equity partner is buried in a 2,000-⁠resume stack. Suited points you straight to them.

Built on behavioral and cognitive insights from more than 200,000 professionals.

3.0x

Candidates identified as strong matches are 3.0x more likely to be hired by your firm.

2.1x

Associates identified as strong matches are 2.1x more likely to become high performers at your firm.

53%

Associates identified as strong matches are 53% less likely to leave your firm.

Firms that hire with Suited

Campus hiring

The credentials available can tell you who got into law school. They cannot tell you who will thrive at your firm.

Similar on paper. Different in practice.

These two candidates are indistinguishable on paper, and with first-semester grades still pending, nothing further is coming. Their resumes give you little reason to choose between them. But they approach their work, and respond to different working environments, in fundamentally different ways.

Candidate A

T14 Law School · J.D. Candidate 2029

  • First-semester grades pending
  • Ivy League undergraduate institution
  • B.A., Public and International Affairs · 3.8 GPA
  • Regulatory paralegal at a global pharmaceutical company for 2 years prior to law school

Candidate B

T14 Law School · J.D. Candidate 2029

  • First-semester grades pending
  • Top-15 undergraduate university
  • B.A., Political Economy & Legal Studies · 3.9 GPA
  • Paralegal at an AmLaw 100 firm for 2 years prior to law school

What hiring partners can’t see: one is highly ambitious and unconventional, the other more measured and structured in their approach to work.

Firm Theta

Structured development · regular feedback

Firm Gamma

Sink-or-swim · deep-end culture

Resumes and transcripts told hiring partners these candidates were identical. They weren’t.

A lot of our screening happens before grades are in. Suited gives us enough signal to keep strong candidates in the running, and the confidence to make offers we might otherwise have hesitated on.

Recruiting leader, AmLaw 50 firm

How campus hiring works

  1. The firm‑specific model

    Suited trains a model on your firm’s performance and retention data, learning which behavioral traits and cognitive skills drive performance at your firm specifically. Models are validated for accuracy before they score a single candidate, and independently audited for adverse impact before they go live and annually thereafter.

  2. Candidates are assessed

    Candidates take the Suited assessment one time as part of their law school recruitment process. Invite candidates who apply to your firm to connect and draw from Suited’s pre-screened pool. Every candidate is evaluated against the firm’s own model. Underlying detail accompanies each score so you can understand why the model rated the candidate the way it did.

  3. Hiring decisions built on evidence

    Build your interview slate with candidates the firm’s own model identifies as top matches. Get offers in the hands of those most likely to thrive. Suited’s AI interprets data. Your human judgment decides what to do with it.

Lateral hiring

The associates you want aren’t looking for a job.

But when your firm extends a warm invitation to connect, they pay attention.

Traditional search agencies trade on cold calls and resume shopping. Suited reaches heads-down passive talent with a warm invitation to connect directly with your team. Because the invitation carries confirmed firm interest, associates who strictly block headhunters routinely take a meeting facilitated by Suited.

The typical top associate’s inbox1,204 unread

  • Quillmark PartnersExciting partnership-track opportunity!!9:14
  • Vandergriff & Co.Are you open to a confidential move?8:52
  • Brightwater LegalTop firms hiring now, reply todayTue
  • Northgate Advisory12 roles matched to your profileMon
  • Marlowe PlacementDon’t miss out on these openingsSun
  • Sable Ridge GroupWeekly roundup: 40+ lateral positionsSat

Your firm’s opening never reached them. It was lost among all of the noise.

How lateral hiring works

  1. Complete market visibility

    See every qualified associate instantly.

    Suited analyzes your role requirements against associate profiles across the industry and automatically surfaces the matches. You gain complete visibility into qualified passive talent across the entire market, not just the few active job-seekers sitting on agency lists.

  2. You make targeted selections

    Choose who is worth meeting.

    Review full public profiles showing verified experience, deal history, and career trajectory. You select exactly who you want to approach in a targeted outreach rather than a spray and pray approach.

  3. Suited handles the outreach

    High-signal invitations that get opened.

    Headhunters send vague emails that get deleted. Suited delivers warm, role-specific invitations directly on behalf of your internal recruiting team. Because the outreach carries confirmed firm interest, passive talent pays attention.

The Suited app for passive candidates

Attorneys come to Suited for briefings, not spin.

Underpinned by Suited’s Private Candidate Ecosystem.

Suited screens every open role in the market and delivers each candidate a briefing, not a job post, evaluating what aligns and what doesn’t align to their background and goals. Engaging opens a confidential conversation with a member of the Suited team, who talks the move through with them and, when they’re ready, Suited makes the introduction. Nothing reaches the firm until they say so.

The Suited app for attorneys: a candidate ranks what matters and saves their mandate, Suited screens and evaluates the roles that fit, and a briefing arrives showing what aligns and the considerations.

The Suited app for attorneys. Illustrative data, time compressed.

We have incorporated Suited’s data in our entry-level hiring for years with great results, and we’re excited to see that foundation extended into lateral hiring, where better information has the potential to create superior outcomes for firms and candidates alike.

Milana Hogan, Chief Talent Officer at Sullivan & Cromwell

Built for fairness, privacy, and security. Independently verified.

A leading AI governance and risk management firm has reviewed and validated Suited’s model design, testing, and governance framework. Each firm-specific model undergoes its own adverse-impact audit before deployment and annually thereafter. These safeguards are part of a broader compliance program aligned with applicable regulatory and industry standards for responsible AI, adverse impact, data privacy, and information security.

NYC LL 144

Independent bias audit for every model before deployment and annually thereafter, whether or not the firm’s use of Suited falls under NYC LL 144.

SOC 2 Type 2

Independent certification of the design and operating effectiveness of Suited’s information-security controls.

GDPR

Privacy controls supporting transparent data processing, data minimization, security, and data-subject rights.

CCPA

Transparent data practices and processes supporting rights to access, correct, and delete personal information.

FAQs

01Does Suited replace our recruiting team or search firms?

No. Suited gives your recruiting team better intelligence and tools. For campus hiring, it adds standardized behavioral and cognitive evidence to your existing evaluation process. For lateral hiring, it expands your view beyond attorneys already in motion and supports targeted outreach. Your recruiters and attorneys remain responsible for every hiring decision, while your firm decides how Suited affects its use of external search firms.

02How is a firm-specific behavioral model developed?

Suited combines structured assessment data from your attorneys with your firm’s performance and retention data to identify the job-related behavioral competencies associated with thriving in your environment. All data collected is anonymized. The model is validated before it is used and revalidated as additional outcome data becomes available. Each production model also undergoes adverse-impact testing and independent third-party review before deployment.

03What if we do not have enough data for a firm-specific behavioral model?

Your firm can begin with Suited’s validated cognitive skills assessment while we determine whether sufficient data is available to develop a custom behavioral model. The behavioral model can be introduced later once the necessary data has been collected and validated.

04Is Suited an ATS or a replacement for our ATS?

No. Suited works alongside your existing ATS and recruiting processes. It adds behavioral and cognitive insights to the information your team already considers, while your firm continues to manage applications, interviews, and hiring decisions through its established systems and workflows.

05What happens if a candidate does not take the assessment?

That is a rare circumstance, but ultimately you control how to implement Suited in your process. Suited provides additional information about candidates who complete the assessment; it does not automatically exclude candidates who do not. Your firm can choose to continue evaluating nonparticipants through its existing process using resumes, transcripts, interviews, and any other information it ordinarily considers.

06Does Suited make or automate hiring decisions?

No. Suited provides additional data to inform your firm’s evaluation process. It does not automatically accept or reject candidates, and no Suited result replaces the judgment of your recruiters, attorneys, or hiring committees. Your team remains responsible for every decision.

07How does Suited address fairness and adverse impact?

Suited’s assessments are developed using established industrial-organizational psychology standards and validated for their intended use. Every production model is tested for adverse impact before deployment and annually thereafter, with independent third-party audits at the model level. Suited’s broader model design, testing, and governance framework has also been independently audited.

08How long does implementation take?

Timing depends on the services your firm selects and the availability of the necessary data. A cognitive-only deployment can generally move more quickly because it does not require development of a firm-specific behavioral model. A custom behavioral deployment includes data collection, model development, validation, adverse-impact testing, and independent audit. Following an initial data review, Suited will provide a firm-specific implementation plan and timeline.

09How is Suited’s lateral solution different from traditional search?

Traditional search generally starts with a resume and an attorney who is already willing to consider a move. Suited combines verified experience, deal and matter history, and career priorities with proprietary behavioral and cognitive insights. We use that multidimensional intelligence to identify attorneys aligned with your specific needs, including those who have not begun an active search. Your team reviews their public bios and selects whom to approach; Suited then delivers a warm invitation backed by confirmed interest, on behalf of your internal recruiting team.

Carly Appel
After working with Suited as a client for six years, I have seen the direct impact on hiring, especially now as accelerated recruiting timelines leave law firms with less information than ever to make critical early-career hiring decisions.

Carly Appel
Vice President, Legal Talent Solutions at Suited
Former Director of Attorney Recruiting, Skadden

Put better intelligence behind your next hiring decision.

Tell us where your talent strategy is headed. We’ll show you how Suited can support your campus and lateral hiring, and what intelligence we can bring to the decisions that matter most to your firm.

Talk with our team