Legal Recruitment and Personnel Manager

Overview

Wilmer Hale is a leading, full-service international law firm with 1,000 lawyers located throughout 12 offices in the United States and Europe. Our lawyers work at the intersection of government, technology and business, and we remain committed to our guiding principles of providing quality, excellent legal and client services; developing diversity among our lawyers and staff and cultivating an environment that promotes an ambitious spirit, collaboration and collegiality by drawing on the extraordinary talents and dynamic experience of our lawyers.

Our goal is to reflect the diversity of our clients and the communities in which we practice.

The Legal Personnel and Recruitment Manager is responsible for all personnel-related programs and processes for attorneys in the Palo Alto and San Francisco offices. They build and manage relationships with lawyers to ensure successful programs and projects for the office. The Legal Personnel and Recruiting Manager is also responsible for all summer associate, entry level associate and post-judicial clerk hiring and will support local lateral hiring as needed.

The Manager will also oversee and execute law school and law student outreach for our Palo Alto and San Francisco summer programs. They will also manage the Palo Alto and San Francisco Legal Personnel Department and oversee all administrative functions of the department.

The Legal Personnel and Recruitment Manager will work collaboratively with the broader Legal Personnel and Development Department, including the Director of Legal Personnel and Development and the Director of Legal Recruiting to achieve the Firm's talent management goals and objectives.

Legal Personnel

• Collaborates directly with firm management in the implementation of lawyer evaluation, retention, compensation and promotion programs and processes in the Palo Alto and San Francisco offices and ensures excellent delivery of services through the Career Advancement Program.
• Manages the semi-annual Associate, Senior Associate and Counsel review process, including working with Partners to review feedback, develop and facilitate summary messages and delivery meetings, and follow-up with lawyers requiring coaching or training.
• Serves as the main point of contact in the Palo Alto and San Francisco offices for attorney onboarding, integration, promotion, transfers, offboarding and outplacement programs and efforts; collaborates with department and office leadership regarding lawyer headcount.
• Responsible for counseling and managing all lawyer leaves and part-time arrangements.
• Oversees local team support of committees including the Women's Leadership Initiative, Parent's Group and the Associates Committee Task Force (ACTF); participates in meetings with lawyers to achieve committee goals.
• Handles employee relations issues, providing counsel to all attorneys on personnel issues, leaves, career questions and related matters.

• In collaboration with the Director, Legal Recruitment, designs, manages, and evaluates all aspects of the Summer Associate Program including pre-arrival processes, orientation, mentoring, social and community service events, diversity initiatives, and firm programming.
• Works with Hiring Partners, Summer Program Co-Chairs, and Practice Management to generate interest and solicit substantive summer assignments and observational opportunities.
• Manages the evaluation and offer process for summer associates.

• Collaborates with the Director, Legal Recruitment and Hiring Partners to manage judicial clerk and law school recruitment, including branding and targeted communications.
• Leads Hiring Committee with Hiring Partners and oversees on-campus and in-office interviewing, offers, and follow-up; meets hiring targets.
• Ensures accuracy of recruitment data and maintains recruitment reports and analysis.
• Ensures consistent application of firm-wide recruitment policies and procedures.
• Proposes and implements strategy for law student outreach and internship programs through law school offices, student groups, and campaigns.