Lacie Marshall is the founder and CEO of Onward Recruiting, where she works with law firms and legal teams across the country to build high-performing teams with intention, clarity, and staying power. With more than two decades in legal recruiting and professional development, Lacie brings a deeply informed, insider perspective to search. One shaped by years spent inside law firms and a constant eye toward how the function must evolve.

Before launching Onward, Lacie held senior recruiting and talent leadership roles within law firms, partnering closely with firm leadership on hiring strategy, attorney development, and long-term workforce planning. That experience fundamentally shapes how she approaches recruiting today: pragmatic and candid, but also innovative. She is known for embracing new technology, rethinking legacy processes, and continuously looking for smarter, more effective ways to elevate the executive recruiting function.

Clients value Lacie for her ability to see patterns early, ask better questions, and give clear, unvarnished guidance when the stakes are high. She challenges assumptions, not just about candidates, but about how search itself should be conducted, and helps firms move beyond outdated hiring models toward approaches that are more strategic, data-informed, and future-ready. Candidates trust her for the same reasons: she is direct, thoughtful, and invested in helping people make smart, forward-looking career decisions.

Lacie founded Onward to create the kind of recruiting partnership she always wanted on the inside: strategic rather than transactional, honest rather than performative, and continuously improving. Her work is defined by precision over volume, relationships over transactions, and a belief that the best hiring decisions are both well-informed and built for what’s next.