Mary E. Yelen
Strategic Partner, Legal Marketing & Business Development
Email: myelen@rosenberg-partners.com
Phone: (828) 406-8973
Mary is a Strategic Partner at Rosenberg Partners. She leads national searches for legal marketing and business development talent, placing professionals from emerging leaders to C-suite leaders across Am Law 100 and 200, mid-size, and boutique firms. With over four years dedicated to legal marketing recruitment and prior experience in project management, research, and operations across government and professional services, she brings a distinctive blend of industry knowledge, analytical rigor, and relationship-driven execution.
Mary recruits across the full legal marketing spectrum, including business development, client development, communications, events, operations, and analytics. She is known for building and activating wide-reaching networks to uncover high-impact candidates, cultivating long-term relationships, and translating client needs into targeted search strategies. Her data-driven research and collaborative approach help hiring leaders align talent strategies with business objectives while navigating the evolving legal marketing landscape. Mary’s specialization enables her to anticipate industry shifts and deliver nuanced, actionable insight to both clients and candidates.
Earlier in her career, Mary worked in government research and intelligence-support roles, including projects with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and NASA. These experiences sharpened her analytical problem-solving skills and ability to communicate effectively with senior stakeholders – capabilities that now anchor her precise, insight-driven recruiting methodology.
Mary is an active member of the Legal Marketing Association, maintaining a well-connected national network of marketing and BD professionals. She holds dual bachelor’s degrees in Geography from the University of Georgia.