Legal recruitment for law firms Hire the lawyer who stays.

Most firms have, and an advert only reaches the people who are already looking. The lawyer you want is usually settled, busy and not on a job board. We approach the whole market, and we spend 20 to 30 minutes screening every candidate for the role, pitching your role and your firm so they want the job before they have even met you. Then we stay in control through to the offer, so you know whether your process needs to speed up, whether your offer is competitive, and we get ahead of counter-offers.

No. We send fewer names, each with a written note on why this person suits this role. If we cannot find someone who fits, we say so and stop. A shortlist is as long as the market justifies, not as long as looks impressive.

It is where most of our placements sit. We know the difference between a fee earner who thrives on high-volume residential and one who needs fewer, larger files. We know why a new build team needs different people from a high-street residential team, and what experience with your case management system is worth.

It depends on the role. Some roles fill in weeks. A senior head of department can take months. After the first meeting you get a realistic timeline in writing, and if it starts slipping you hear about it from us first.

Yes. Several of our current roles are hybrid or fully remote, and every advert shows the working pattern and the salary.

Ask for the market read in the discovery meeting. We also publish the salary on our adverts, so you can see what firms are paying right now.

Terms are agreed in writing at the discovery meeting, before we send you a single CV.

Fair. Most firms who say that were sent a pile of CVs by someone who did not know the role. Test us. The first meeting is 30 minutes, and you get a market read in writing before you pay for anything. If the people are not out there at your figure, we say so.

The role: what the work is, how many files, who supervises. The team around it. The pay band you have approved. And what went wrong last time, because it tells us what to screen for.

Tell us the band you have approved. We will tell you what it buys in the market today. Every advert we run shows the pay, so you can see for yourself what firms are offering right now.

Not entirely, and nobody can. Notice periods are often long, so a lot can happen between a yes and a start date. We stay in the middle until the new starter is at their desk.

Mostly conveyancing, development and new build, and commercial property and real estate, from assistants and fee earners to heads of department and partners. We also recruit in private client, real estate and property litigation, and housing and regeneration, and across the wider legal market, including corporate and commercial, when a firm needs it.

We approach the whole market, not just the people on job boards. Every candidate has a screening conversation of 20 to 30 minutes for each role, where we find out what they want, check their track record and see whether they would really suit your role. We check their track record and practising status, and nothing is sent without the candidate's consent. The whole standard is on our How we screen page.

Our deep sector knowledge, active listening and commitment to customer service, shown by our reviews, as well as our ability to effectively sell your role and company so candidates actually want the job before they even meet you. We tell you what we think, even when it isn’t what you expected to hear, and we treat every placement as the start of a long-term relationship.

It depends on the role and on how many suitable lawyers there are in your market. After the discovery meeting you get a written timeline, including when to expect the first shortlist, and if it starts slipping you hear it from us first. We would rather send fewer names that are right than more names that are fast.

Whilst we have a 93% retention rate on placements after three months (measured in 2024), we allow for when things go wrong by providing a rebate period during the first couple of months, where you can recover some of the cost. If possible, we look to find a suitable replacement instead.