The Challenges When You Recruit In-house Counsel

CEOs, CFOs, General Counsel and their HR colleagues face 3 challenges when recruiting in-house counsel.

Candidate Attraction

You need to see the best in-house lawyers quickly, but perhaps aren’t aware who they are, or how best to attract them. Delays in attraction can over-stretch legal resources, constrain key projects and could ultimately increase legal risk a well as external legal costs.

Applicant Quality

Legal hiring managers may be disappointed with the quality of applicants generated by adverts, agencies and other sources. You may find you waste time reviewing and declining poorly matched CVs, and don’t have enough choice upon which to make a reliable hiring decision.

Appointee Retention

Attrition can be a valid concern. Not every lawyer makes a successful transition into a new in-house legal role, and some may struggle to meet the demands of key stakeholders. Making a bad hire is costly, time consuming, lowers morale and can be very disruptive.

Our 4-step L-TAR® methodology overcomes every one of these challenges when you seek to recruit in-house legal counsel.

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Legal Talent Acquisition and Retention (LTAR®) System

Our tried and tested system helps you appoint ‘best-fit’ lawyers into in-house legal roles at every level of seniority.
Once that’s done, our long-term retention strategy adds true value to the process. In summary, the four steps are:

Explore

When undertaking in-house legal search and recruitment projects, we make it our business to know yours. We consult with key stakeholders and fully explore both the technical and behavioural needs of your organisation.

Engage

Strategic research and engagement with in-house legal counsel and solicitors in law firms is a continual process. We frequently know the lawyers you need before you identify the role to be filled.

Evaluate

As expert legal recruiters, our experience enables us quickly to identify candidates with the right legal skills. We then evaluate their behavioural fit for the role with cutting-edge legal recruitment and retention technology.

Enhance

We’re totally dedicated to a successful outcome. Once we’ve placed an in-house lawyer on a legal search project, we facilitate employee retention through complementary services, backed by market leading guarantees.

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