Alan J. Rubenstein, Esq., Executive Vice President, joined Chicago Legal Search as a consultant in 1995. After graduating from the University of Wisconsin in 1986, Alan received his J.D. in 1990 from DePaul University College of Law where he was a Law Review member and the Executive Editor of the DePaul Business Law Journal. Alan spent five years as a commercial litigation and intellectual property associate with Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon in Chicago. He has been widely quoted as an authority on issues pertaining to the legal search profession in numerous national and local publications, including The Wall Street Journal, The American Lawyer, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and Chicago Daily Law Bulletin. Alan also has spoken before the Chicago Bar Association and law schools nationally on legal recruiting matters, and has testified as an expert witness on attorney placement and career matters. Alan has placed hundreds of prominent attorneys in Chicago and throughout the country. He is one of a very limited number of legal recruiters nationally that has personally generated in excess of five million dollars in placement fees.