M: +1 646 385 2886
E: Peter.VanName@marsdengroup.com
Pete Van Name
Senior Consultant
Pete Van Name is a Senior Consultant in Marsden’s US team in our Boston office. He specializes in placing exceptional lawyers at all levels into leading law firms across all major legal markets in the USA.
Prior to joining Marsden, Pete was the Manager of Legal Recruitment at Wachtell, Lipton in New York for over three years. He also previously held legal recruitment and talent management roles at Selendy Gay and Skadden in New York. After 15 years living and working in New York City, Pete moved north to Massachusetts to spearhead the opening of Marsden’s Boston office in July 2026.
With over a decade of experience in legal recruiting and talent management, Pete is a seasoned recruiter known for excellent service and ingenuity in high stakes environments. In his prior roles at some of the top law firms in the USA, he led legal recruiting teams partnering closely with firm leadership to attract, evaluate, and onboard top legal talent.
He has spent years identifying and hiring entry level talent from some of the country’s top law schools, recruiting judicial clerks looking to return to private practice and managing talent pipelines for firms, overseeing their strategic lateral recruitment initiatives. Through his work in these roles, Pete has developed a deep network in the New York legal market where he has also been an active member of the National Association for Law Placement (NALP) and the New York City Recruiting Association (NYCRA).
Pete lives just outside of Boston with his wife and daughter. Beyond work he enjoys finding and trying interesting new restaurants of all cuisines, is an avid college basketball fan (Go Friars!) and an aspiring (amateur) sommelier.