You're Seeking Legal Counsel Jobs and Experiencing These Challenges

Florit Legal has filled a wide range of UK in-house legal jobs since 1998. Before accepting a job offer, every candidate reported their own unique set of challenges they wanted to overcome. These can be grouped into 3 main categories some of which you may well identify with:

Fulfilment and lifestyle

You’re ‘burning the candle’.
Hours compromise your family time.
Your rewards are lagging behind the London or UK Regional market.
Partnership really isn’t for you.
Nobody doubts your commitment, but fee-earning doesn’t thrill you.
You want your legal skills to contribute to the success of a different type of business.
You need to feel more valued.

Career progression

Your current role isn’t sustainable.
You’re at risk of redundancy.
Relationships with colleagues aren’t quite what you expected.
The role was over-sold to you.
You’re just ‘contract-crunching’ with no opportunity to be strategic.
Your skills won’t develop if you stay where you are.
You’ve been denied a promotion or someone got hired over you.

Some recruiters don’t listen!

Your skills are in high demand from law firm recruiters, but practice roles don’t excite you.
You’re happy to wait for your ideal in-house role to come along.
The more that recruiters encourage you to consider practice roles, the less you trust them. Their desire to make a fee out of you seems to eclipse any drive to understand your needs.

Whatever your situation, many of the best legal counsel jobs are never advertised, so it pays to be on the radar of the headhunters who fill them.

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What our candidates say

"I have known Miguel for a number of years and worked with him on a significant in-house legal recruitment project. I have found him to be trustworthy, well connected and commercially minded. I have no hesitation in recommending him."

Carl Atkinson - Consultant

"Miguel was an absolute pleasure to deal with as an applicant. He works really hard, goes the extra mile in being available outside normal working hours. I felt he really cared about getting the fit right and building rapport both with the company that recruited me and me as the candidate. I highly recommend him for executive search."

Catherine Ledger - General Counsel and Company Secretary

"Miguel is well connected and very easy to deal with. I know him to be a lateral thinker and very diligent in his efforts on behalf of corporate clients and candidates."

Cathy Baxandall - Company Secretary and Group Legal Counsel

"Miguel ensures that as a candidate he keeps you informed, he never leaves you hanging. He genuinely wants to achieve the right fit for both parties and so you know you can trust him to place you and recruit for you."

Dagmar Kibble - Head of Legal

"I have always found them highly professional, refreshingly out-of-the-box in considering potential solutions to my requirements and committed to long-term relationship-building. I would happily recommend them to friends and colleagues alike."

Denis Connery - Non-Executive Director

"I have found Lisa to be an exceptional coach. My sessions with her have been everything that I could have hoped for and more. I have taken something positive and useful from every session. She has encouraged me to think about issues in a different way, helped me find practical solutions to deal immediate challenges and has also helped me build strategies to use in the future. I trust Lisa implicitly and have found it easy to be very honest to her, gaining real benefit from doing so. Everyone would benefit from having a Lisa in their lives!"

Head of Department, National Retailer

"I would highly recommend Andy as he was greatly supportive during the recruitment process. This included helping me to prepare before interviews and providing feedback. Andy was quick with correspondence and went out of his way to answer my queries throughout."

Heather Dyson - Senior In-house Counsel

"Trust is not something which is easily earned but I trusted [the] judgement and advice throughout the process... excellent knowledge of the in-house legal market and the way in which they approach in-house recruitment, gives a real “value-add” service."

Heena Lad

"Throughout the process Andy was approachable and open; always making the effort to be available whatever time of day suited best. He gave excellent feedback and support throughout the recruitment process. Andy ensures that both parties' personalities and styles of working complement each other which in turn ensures highly successful placements for both candidates and employers."

Isabel Smillie - Head of Legal

"The most proactive and informed recruiters I used whilst looking for my current in-house role. They were happy to answer any daft questions about the move in-house and they were very good at keeping me updated on how my applications were progressing, rather than leaving you guessing or not contacting you like some other agencies I dealt with."

Jade Ginger - Senior Legal Counsel

"I would wholeheartedly recommend [them] to any legal professional looking to either make their first move in house, or to move to a new position in industry."

Jay Moroney - Senior Legal Counsel

"I have known Miguel for a number of years and worked with him as a client and candidate. He was instrumental in securing my current appointment and was brilliant to deal with. Always kept me up to speed and was very professional throughout the process. I have no hesitation in recommending him."

Lloyd Lemmon - Director of Legal & Compliance

"Miguel is easy to work with; thinks imaginatively, understands what is needed and is completely professional."

Mark Hogarth, General Counsel

"Andy was extremely personable, yet professional. His knowledge of the legal industry was excellent and his ability to understand and meet my needs was even better. Andy was keen to provide the right service for me and not just treat me as another client to place as soon as possible."

Richard Crabb - Senior Legal Operations Professional