Dan Figueroa leads the Legal Practice for JM Search. For more than 14 years, Dan has focused exclusively on placing attorneys. He has placed dozens of partners at AM Law100 Law Firms as well as having placed many associates and in-house counsel. Dan has successfully placed lawyers whose focus areas are in Private Equity, Corporate M&A, Venture Capital & Emerging Companies, Investment Management, Finance, Capital Markets, Patent Litigation and Commercial Litigation. Dan has also successfully placed attorneys with a focus in various industries including Life Sciences/HealthCare, Technology, Banking & Finance, Real Estate and Energy. He has also been instrumental in facilitating 3 law firm mergers.

Prior to joining JM Search, Dan worked with one of the top law recruiting firms in the country for over a decade. He started his career at a small legal search firm in Cambridge, MA where he worked for 3 years. Dan is one of the few legal recruiters in the country who graduated college and immediately went into recruiting.

Dan lives with his wife and three children in Yardley, PA. He lived in Boston from 2003 to 2017, when he moved to Yardley. Outside of work, Dan enjoys spending time with his family and being outdoors. He was born in Santiago, Chile and lived in 6 countries by the time he was 15 years old. He holds a B.A. in Communications from Curry College.