Legal Recruiting Assistant

Location: Remote from the Dallas-Fort Worth Metro Area

Type: Full-time (will also consider Part-time if preferred)

Reports to: Founder / Principal Recruiter

We are a boutique legal recruiting firm based in Dallas, Texas and working with law firms across Texas and beyond. We are seeking a detail-oriented, highly organized Legal Recruiting Assistant to support core recruiting operations, data entry, sourcing, and candidate management.
The candidate MUST be based in Texas, preferably in the DFW Metro area.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys building structure behind the scenes, working in Linked In Recruiter daily, and helping a recruiting practice run efficiently and professionally.

• Create, update, and maintain market maps by practice area and Texas market
• Track firms, practice groups, headcount trends, and key attorney movement
• Ensure data accuracy and consistency across market-mapping documents

• Create and maintain Linked In Recruiter projects
• Organize candidates by search, stage, and priority
• Keep pipelines clean, current, and searchable
• Tag and categorize candidates for long-term sourcing efforts
• Draft, post, and manage Linked In job postings
• Conduct initial outreach to prospective candidates
• Coordinate scheduling of introductory calls/interviews
• Track responses and follow-ups to ensure no candidate falls through the cracks

• Research attorneys and prospects for active and future searches
• Identify candidates based on firm, practice area, geography, and experience level
• Support proactive sourcing and pipeline development

• Maintain accurate contact records in the ATS and Google Sheets
• Assist with follow-up messaging and outreach sequences
• Help ensure consistent, professional communication with candidates

• 1+ years of experience working in a recruiting, staffing, or talent-focused role
• Hands-on experience with:
• Google Sheets & Google Drive
• Dripify
• A recruiting ATS (law firm or professional services experience is a plus)

• Highly organized with strong attention to detail
• Comfortable managing multiple projects and pipelines simultaneously
• Ability to work independently and proactively
• Tech-savvy and comfortable learning new tools and workflows

• Legal industry or professional services recruiting experience
• Familiarity with Texas legal markets
• Experience supporting a boutique or founder-led recruiting firm

• Flexible work environment (role can work remotely from DFW)
• Direct exposure to legal recruiting strategy and market intelligence
• Opportunity to grow with a boutique recruiting firm
• Collaborative, professional, and respectful work culture