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Solve your legal hiring requirements and long-term business strategies with our dedicated team of specialists. Benefit today from our all-encompassing legal networks and expert, comprehensive approach to recruitment. 

Legal firms and organisations have been challenged to build legal services that better meet their customers’ demand, invest in new technology and match ever-changing legal and governance regulations. These challenges require more than just a legal recruiter, but a leadership partner – and with over 25 years of successful legal recruitment, experience, we’re well positioned to be yours. 

We’ve established trusted relationships with legal professional communities and regional and Law Society chapters, while our engagement and commercial support with business networks means we’re well connected to influential professionals in the legal market and beyond. 

Unlike more niche legal recruiters, we also offer our legal partners opportunities to showcase their expertise to our wider client base and the business development opportunities that come from this. Moreover, you’ll also benefit from insights on topical themes affecting legal professionals in the execution of their professional responsibilities. 

We also know that supporting greater diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) is a major consideration for the legal sector. Our deeply entrenched DE&I practices, partners and channels, ensure we reach a wide selection of candidates from a diverse range of backgrounds.  

You can trust us to deliver the advice, solutions and long-term guidance you need to transform your organisation and succeed in a complex legal landscape. 

 

Our legal fields

We deliver a range of legal experts across different industries, with over 500 legal professionals placed in the last year. 

Company secretarial: access the professionals who will ensure your organisation is meeting its compliance and corporate governance standards. 

Private practice: draw from our talent pool of skilled, knowledgeable legal practitioners at all levels of seniority. 

Paralegal: ensure your legal team is well equipped to deliver the services it wants with proven candidates. 

In-house: receive expert guidance from in-house legal counsels and other in-house experts. 

Public sector: strengthen your legal teams with our wide talent pool of qualified legal professionals. 

Not for profit and third sector: recruit the legal expertise and leadership you need to assure your organisation’s activities. 

 

Successful legal placements

Our national and regional footprint offers you the scale and geographical expertise, along with the understanding of legal employers’ challenges and opportunities, to help you secure the best talent in a competitive legal market. 

The organisations we’ve partnered with range from prestigious law firms, businesses across multiple industries and locations, and public sector and not for profit bodies. 

Some of the law firms we’ve placed legal professionals in include Allen & Overy, Blake Morgan, Burges Salmon, Clarke Willmott, Eversheds Sutherlands, Herbet Smith Freehills, Osborne Clarke, Pennington Manches, Shoosmiths and Trowers & Hamlins. 

We’ve also provided legal talent for a range of commercial organisations, such as Arup, Aviva, Bank of Ireland, BT, Deloitte, IKEA, KPMG, Post Office, RAC and TSB. 

In the public and third sector, some of the respected organisations we’ve worked with include Alzheimer’s Society, Clarion Housing Group, Dogs Trust, Financial Reporting Council, RNIB, The Pensions Regulator, The University of Law, West Suffolk Council, World Animal Protection and WWF. 

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