Melissa Ertek

Throughout her career, Melissa has worked with chairs of law firms on strategic initiatives, including mergers, acquisitions, office openings, expansions, restructurings, leadership transitions, as well as lateral and lateral group acquisitions in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. Melissa has been fortunate to work on some of the most complex and high-value lateral group transactions and office openings in the legal industry. 

Melissa has formalized and established global partner hiring and client team programs and protocols at law firms, and has effectively integrated offices, and lateral groups across the world. She has developed and executed strategic plans at the firm, practice group, regional and office levels; implemented cross-selling and client service strategies; and worked with firm leaders on increasing communication among the partnership globally.