Young Mayden, LLC is a boutique firm, providing distinct services in the areas of legal search, consulting, and career counseling. Young Mayden is the only national legal search, consulting and career counseling firm whose principals, Kenneth E. Young and Barbara Mendel Mayden, have:

• Over 60 combined years of experience practicing business and employment law, during which time they were at several different regional and national law firms, including Bass, Berry & Sims, Skadden Arps, White & Case, King & Spalding, Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, and Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough
• Over 50 combined years of leadership in the American Bar Association, where they have worked with many of America's finest attorneys and bar leaders
• Provided advice to hundreds of corporate legal departments across the country

It is estimated that the cost of a bad hire is at least 4 - 5 times the annual salary involved.  Ken and Barbara's legal expertise, their law firm experience, their work with scores of  corporate legal departments, and their national base of personal contacts in every major city give Young Mayden unparalleled perspective and a decided edge in making successful placements.  Those contacts enable the firm to conduct peer to peer searches; their tag line - Connecting People We Know Through Workplaces We Understand - defines their method for meeting client objectives.