Legal Recruiter

Key Responsibilities

• Identify, source, recruit, and screen Attorneys for open positions.
• Coordinate all stages of the US recruitment process for attorney positions, including posting jobs, reviewing resumes, and screening candidates.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for candidates, ensuring consistent communication and a positive candidate experience.
• Work closely with the Senior Recruitment Manager to strategize and ensure open roles are filled in a timely manner.
• Organize and attend job briefings from internal stakeholders/hiring managers and demonstrate in-depth understanding of the Firm's practice areas and business services areas.
• Proactively source and identify qualified candidates.
• Obtain interview feedback from both hiring team and candidates as needed, and facilitate the progression of the interview process in a timely manner.
• Draft offer recommendations to hiring team and receive required approvals.
• Prepare and send offers to candidates, including composing offer recommendations for approval, and drafting and sending offer packets to candidates.
• Administer and assist with the new joiners' process, including monitoring the return of offer letters, conflict checks, and references.
• Ensure candidate information is up-to-date in the firm's ATS and recruitment spreadsheets.

Required Experience

• 1-2 years of recruitment experience in a professional services environment (law firm experience highly preferred).
• Ability to work at speed and balance a wide range of activities at any one time and at short notice.
• Highly professional with strong client-facing skills and an ability to forge strong and lasting internal relationships.
• Proactive, committed, enthusiastic and innovative.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Flexible and resilient with good problem-solving skills.
• Ability to communicate at all levels with excellent organizational skills.
• Strong math aptitude and excellent computer skills, including Excel proficiency.
• Experience working with various online recruitment platforms such as LinkedIn, Handshake, and others.

This is a developing role and the job description is not exhaustive and may vary in line with changes in the team's objectives and firm policy.


The annualized salary range for this role is $62,000-$68,000. However, this is contingent upon level of experience, location, and other job-related factors permitted by law.


FLSA Status: Exempt


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About Kennedys


Kennedys is a global law firm with expertise in dispute resolution and advisory services. With over 2,750 people worldwide across 48 offices in the UK, Europe, Middle East, Asia Pacific and America we have some of the most respected legal minds in their field.


Our lawyers handle both contentious and non-contentious matters, and provide a range of specialist legal services, for many industry sectors but we have particular expertise in litigation and dispute resolution, especially in defending insurance and liability claims.


We're a fresh-thinking firm, and we're not afraid to bring challenging new perspectives to the table way beyond the traditional realm of legal services. We empower our clients with a diverse range of ideas, tools and technology to make their lives easier, as well as delivering exceptional results, every time.



What do we have to offer?


We welcome high-performing lawyers, business services professionals, secretaries, graduates and apprentices to join our rapidly expanding global firm. Whatever your role at Kennedys, you'll be involved in exciting and stimulating work, where your input will make a difference.


Our culture and values form a big part of who we are and we take them seriously. We make a difference by being approachable, straightforward, supportive and distinctive. Our values are at the core of who we are and what make us a great firm to work with and for.


The Firm recognises the value of investing in our people's development and believes our culture and values contribute to the quality of our work and of our client relationships. With a culture of on-the-job and experiential learning, peer to peer learning, mentoring, resources and tools that enable you to drive your career, we can support your development in your current and future roles. A variety of other opportunities are available including secondments to clients and our global offices.


We strive to celebrate diversity, empower our people and ensure everyone can bring their authentic selves to work. We've created a culture based on client service, professional excellence, hard work and trust, where diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) is a key priority. We recognise that many of our people want to work for an employer that is aligned to their values, which is why we are building an inclusive culture, decarbonising our operations and supporting our people to thrive at work. Our people are the key to driving this change and helping us to make a difference to our clients, our people and the communities in which we live and work.


Kennedys is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. We expect all employees to be aware of and comply with all relevant policies and procedures within their jurisdiction, including those relating to Information Security, Data Protection and Quality Management, refer any breach promptly to Risk & Compliance and to complete all mandatory training when requested.