Executive Search and Consulting Services

Welcome to the web site of Riverbend Group, LLC. Riverbend Group is an executive search and consulting firm headquartered in the Greater Washington, D.C.-Baltimore, Maryland metropolitan area. Riverbend’s founder and Managing Member, Paul Heldenbrand, Esq., has more than twenty years’ experience in the executive search and consulting business in the Mid-Atlantic region and elsewhere. Our primary specialty areas are legal executive search and related services such as law firm merger consulting, confidential representation of experienced individual attorneys and groups seeking to relocate their practices, attorney salary and market surveys, and outplacement services for lawyers. However, we also have many years of recruiting and consulting experience in areas other than law, and in certain circumstances are able to take on search assignments or assist candidates in other industries and professions as well. Moreover, in those situations where we are not able to provide direct assistance, we are always happy to try to refer you to someone else who can.

At this web site, you will discover some basic information about Riverbend Group and its various services, as well as more detailed information regarding our specialty areas, geographical scope and methodology. Whether you are a law firm or other employer seeking experienced help with your legal recruiting needs, an attorney seeking professional and confidential guidance in relocating your practice, or an employer or professional in another field with hiring or employment-related needs, there is a very good chance that we – or one of the many specialists in our extensive network of search consultants and other professionals – can be of service to you.

Please spend a few minutes browsing around this site. After you have done so, if you have comments or questions about our qualifications or services or would like to communicate with us regarding any other matter, click on the “Contact Us” button on any page within the site to find out how to reach us. Even if you are just beginning to consider making a critical career move or hiring a key partner, executive, manager, or attorney for your organization, please feel free to call us to discuss your thoughts or ideas in strict confidence. You can also send us an e-mail message requesting that a Riverbend Group consultant call you to discuss your questions at a time convenient to you. A special form is provided for that purpose on the contact page.

If you would like to submit your résumé to us for consideration and/or evaluation (either prior to or after speaking with us), a form is provided for that purpose as well on the contact page. All résumés or other materials submitted by you will be held in strictest confidence by us. As you will see on the page entitled "Methodology and Ethics" and elsewhere throughout this site, Riverbend Group is proud of its reputation for protecting confidential information. We are the very antithesis of a "résumé mill," and maintain a level of confidentiality with both candidates and employers that goes well beyond that of most other executive search and consulting firms. Since the very foundation of our business is providing a mechanism for currently employed professionals to safely explore new opportunities, the quality of our candidate base – and therefore our ability to successfully complete search assignments – would be greatly diminished if we did not maintain our well-earned reputation for confidentiality.

Thank you for visiting our web site. We appreciate your interest in Riverbend Group, and look forward to serving you in any way we can.