Meet the Headhunter Who Placed Scott Barshay at Paul Weiss

At various times in a forty-five minute interview, Manhattan-based recruiter Mark Rosen hung up the phone to take another call —“This is important, I have to take this.”— and put me on hold as he brushed off others —“I’m on the phone with a reporter, I can’t talk now!”

For more than three decades as a recruiter, his success has often hinged on knowing which calls don’t matter, and which callsreallymatter — like the one he placed to Brad Karp, the chair of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind Wharton & Garrison in mid-February that led to the hiring ...