Specialist, Experienced Legal Recruitment

Our People team is responsible for managing and enhancing all aspects of human resources and employee experience. Our team oversees talent acquisition, including recruiting, interviewing and onboarding new hires, ensuring that the Firm attracts and retains top legal talent and business services professionals. We develop and implement HR policies, manage employee relations, and administer compensation and benefits programs to ensure a fair and supportive work environment.

Additionally, the People team focuses on training, professional development, work allocation, mobility and fostering a positive workplace culture. We also handle performance management, employee engagement, and compliance with labor laws and regulations. Through our comprehensive HR strategies and initiatives, the People team ensures that the Firm’s workforce around the world is motivated, skilled and mobilized to deliver on the Firm’s objectives.

The Experienced Legal Recruitment Specialist will lead all aspects of our recruitment efforts to elevate our lateral associate hiring process and make it a best-in-class function. This role collaborates with Partners and key stakeholders to execute talent strategies, manage the end-to-end recruitment process, and build candidate pipelines for multiple practice groups across all US offices.

The ideal candidate will have excellent client relationship management skills and a professional presence, with the ability to balance stakeholder and candidate relationships. They will need strong time management, organization and process driven skills while managing multiple requisitions. The role also emphasizes attracting and retaining top talent by ensuring a positive candidate experience and requires an individual who continuously strives to cultivate a proactive recruitment process that is engaging, strategic and efficient.

Duties and Accountabilities1

Support the hiring of lateral associates, counsel and other full-time, experienced associates such as judicial clerks and LLM candidates

Manage full-cycle recruitment for multiple requisitions (e.g., job postings, applications, interviews, candidate management, offer process, agency engagement, etc.)Proactively mitigate recruitment challenges and communicate regularly with the relevant leadership on requisitions within the practice group(s)
Build and maintain relationships with legal search firms, gather and analyze job market trends, and promote the Firm’s brand

Develop and execute sourcing strategies to build candidate pipelines and engage top talent

Conduct screening interviews to assess candidates’ qualifications and suitability for open positions

Collaborate with hiring managers, cross-function teams, and key stakeholders throughout the recruitment process to ensure we meet their hiring needs and goals

Develop deep expertise as a subject matter expert and promote recruitment best practices

Support recruitment initiatives across the Business Services and Experienced Legal Recruitment teams (e.g., branding initiatives, Linked In utilization and expansion, sourcing efforts, etc.)Ensure ATS and recruitment reporting are accurate and proactively share data-centric updates with internal stakeholders

Manage the offer process by coordinating with cross functional team (i.e., immigration, conflicts, general counsel, compensation, mobility, etc.)Ensure compliance by maintaining data integrity in the recruitment process

Qualifications

At least five (5) years of recruitment experience within the professional services industry or a search firm, with legal experience preferred

Experience leading a function or work stream on a recruitment team highly preferred

Experience mentoring, coaching and developing team members highly preferred

Expertise in sourcing…