About Us | People
Jeffrey S. Stillman, Esq.
- President and Founder
David Popky
- Vice President
and Co-founder
Lin M.
Stillman, Esq.
- General Counsel and Search Consultant
Helene D.
Colaizzi
- Search Consultant
Jeffrey S.
Stillman, Esq. -
President and Founder of The Advocates Group, is a
graduate of the University of Chicago Law School and
Wharton Business School. He served as a business
attorney with the San Francisco law firms of Orrick,
Herrington & Sutcliffe and Steefel, Levitt & Weiss. Mr.
Stillman specializes in counseling law firms and
in-house legal groups on management and personnel
issues, practice group augmentation, law firm mergers,
acquisitions and formations, and full-time attorney
placements.
jstillman@advocatesgroup.com
David Popky - Vice President
and Co-founder of The
Advocates Group, is a graduate of the University of
Pennsylvania. Prior to joining The Advocates Group, he
served as vice president of operations and sales for an
international trading company operating in San Francisco
and Hong Kong. Mr. Popky focuses on placement of partner
and associate level attorneys, law firm mergers and
acquisitions, and general counsel searches.
dpopky@advocatesgroup.com
Lin M. Stillman, Esq.
- General Counsel and
Search Consultant of The Advocates Group has
practiced law for almost two decades, serving as a
litigator at several top blue-chip law firms, as an
in-house transactional counsel with a global
telecommunications company, and as a solo practitioner
representing clients in media, entertainment and other
complex commercial transactions. She earned her law and
undergraduate degrees from the University of Virginia.
Ms. Stillman specializes in partner and other senior
level attorney placement, group placement and law firm
mergers and acquisitions.
lstillman@advocatesgroup.com
Helene D. Colaizzi -
Search Consultant of The Advocates
Group earned her undergraduate degree in Neuroscience
from the the
University of Pittsburgh and her doctorate from the Ohio
College of Podiatric Medicine. Prior to joining The
Advocates Group, she handled business development for a
managing consulting company and held various positions
at a global pharmaceutical company. Dr. Colaizzi
primarily focuses on the placement of associate level
attorneys.
hcolaizzi@advocatesgroup.com