Recruitment Manager/Senior Manager in London

Our recruitment team plays a vital part in attracting and securing the best legal professionals for our team, whether it’s qualified lawyers, paralegals or legal operations professionals. You’ll have a pivotal role representing LOD with those groups as their first point of contact but also in maintaining our relationships with them for the long term.

Helping to select the best people for our short term and long term needs while responsibly managing the expectations of lawyers who we may not be able to help immediately.

• Managing talent pools: Proactively managing existing talent pools and working with the recruitment and engagement management teams to ensure we have a strong understanding of the experience, availability, and fit of those lawyers for live assignments.
• Recruitment advertising: Writing detailed, creative and informative advertising to sell LOD as a concept as well as to attract specific lawyers for current and future needs.
• Strategic projects: Leading or supporting on strategic recruitment projects such as marketing and advertising campaigns, reengagement initiatives and developing new talent pipelines. Also continually reviewing and refining the LOD recruitment process and systems that support it.

Authentic and clear communication skills, emotional intelligence and the ability to build and maintain relationships both internally and externally. A genuine interest in the changing legal market and in ensuring that our LOD lawyers and clients receive the best possible experience throughout their dealings with us. A wish to develop long-term relationships with lawyers and clients, taking the time to do so.

2+ years of recruitment experience in Financial Services, Litigation, Investigations, Legal Engineering, or e-discovery. Ideally have some understanding of the legal or other professional services sector. Be creative and open-minded yet not afraid of using data and processes.

LOD is the leading flexible legal service provider across several locations in the UK, Asia, Australia and America. We are both changing the way in which clients buy legal services and providing talented lawyers with a new way of working. We’ve achieved some of the fastest growth in our sector by creating and leading a new professional service category. That growth continues as we launch new services, responding to the way our lawyers want to work and clients want to engage them.

LOD has caught the imagination of the changing legal marketplace for ‘new law’ services. We now have a team of over 600 lawyers and consultants of the highest quality working with an inspiring client list from globally recognised multinationals to start-ups. So, working in the HQ team offers you a chance to shape how things are changing in the legal industry. By joining us, you can not only be part of a high growth business, but you can also influence the transformation in the legal sector.