Legal Counsel

Recruiting In-house Legal Teams

As a General Counsel, Legal Director, or Head of Legal, having the right team of legal counsel around you is crucial to managing your company’s legal needs efficiently as the organisation grows. Whether you’re hiring the company’s second lawyer to act in a supporting role, or expanding a mature department with succession plans in mind, we offer a range of recruitment solutions across a range of industries.

Our tailored approach addresses a wide range of organisational needs:

For growing teams: We help identify lawyers who can handle a diverse range of responsibilities in a typically flat structure.
For mature departments: We source niche technical specialists from industry or practice – at all levels from the most junior lawyers to senior legal counsel and team leaders.
In each case, we help you assess the legal skills, behavioural fit and cultural alignment that are key to long-term retention, career development and succession planning.

Florit Legal specialises in helping you find exactly the right type of lawyer for your immediate and future needs and has a reputation for future-proofing searches so that you get the right technical and behavioural fit in legal counsel at the first attempt.

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Legal Counsel Recruitment Process

With our LTAR® System, the search for every type of legal counsel starts with the same reliable foundations: a full brief to elicit the precise needs of key board-level stakeholders; an assessment of critical behaviours; which is then followed by proactive candidate outreach and engagement, culminating in the presentation of a shortlist aligned to your technical, behavioural and cultural-fit requirements.

Our process ensures candidates match your specific needs, whether you’re a fast-growing startup needing a generalist with skills that mirror your own, or a long-established PLC with a need for both specialist and generalist legal professionals.

Our expertise:

Identifying existing legal counsel who have already developed the in-house lawyer mindset in a company similar to yours.
Headhunting the most suitable candidates from nearby law firms, some of whom may have already worked in-house with clients on a seconded basis.

Trust Florit Legal to deliver a diverse shortlist of thoroughly assessed lawyers for legal counsel and regulatory compliance roles across a range of industries.

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What our clients say

“Miguel and his team have helped us to recruit several members of our Legal Team. They have a good grasp of the issues and qualities that really matter to us.”

Alex Simpson - General Counsel

“Their honesty and knowledgeable approach works. I would strongly recommend any company looking for an in-house lawyer to speak to Florit Legal.”

Andrew Greenwood - Risk Director

“I worked with Florit Legal previously and the team to be well informed, responsive, and creative in their approach to the legal market. I have no reservation in recommending them.”

Andrew Hoyle - Non-Executive Director

“Having never recruited a lawyer before, I contacted Florit Brooke following a recommendation from Addleshaw Goddard. They quickly understood my needs, grasped the issues and delivered what we were looking for.”

Andrew Turner - Chief Executive Officer

“Honesty and integrity is what we look for when hiring, and the same goes for the consultants we choose to deal with. We found Miguel lived up to his reputation and also displayed tenacity, tact and understanding.”

David Biesterfield - Development Director

“Miguel has his finger on the pulse of the legal market. He is persistent in a way that gets results, and is not a negative. Florit Legal provided the best candidates by far. An excellent result and very easy to deal with.”

Jennifer Hamilton - Development and Environment Director

“Florit Legal is a legal recruitment business I feel I can trust. They have proven their ability to identify and engage with some excellent candidates and successfully recruit for us.”

Mark Amsden - FTSE General Counsel and Company Secretary

“I have always found Miguel to be personable, proactive and responsive. He tends to present options rather than a ‘one size fits all’ approach, and provides honest insight and feedback. He has delivered every time.”

Paul Gregson - HR Director

"Miguel has hired lawyers for me in three different companies. He has a real ability to understand your business and your needs quickly, which enables him to add value. The team are professional, reliable and able to deliver a result."

Ken Mullen - Company Secretary & General Counsel

"I worked with Florit Legal and would have no hesitation in recommending them."

Jenny Geddes - In-house Talent Acquisition Specialist

“Initially recommended to me by DLA Piper, Miguel Florit is a trusted advisor who recruited several members of our UK legal team, including me. My personal expectations have also been exceeded, evolving beyond legal into a general management role.”

Paul Ravenscroft - Global Head of M&A

“Miguel’s, and his team’s, approach to in-house legal recruitment is refreshing, breaks the stereotypes and is one to which all legal recruitment consultants should aspire. Based on my experience, I cannot recommend them more highly. The service and work ethic simply surpasses that offered by the opposition; you should give them a try."

Richard Fox - Head of Legal

“I faced a very important and urgent resourcing issue and they not only offered a pragmatic solution, but also secured a very capable appointee. I can trust Miguel to give me honest, helpful and practical advice.”

Sarah Caddy - Legal Director, Company Secretary

“No waffle and certainly not pushy. It’s worth speaking to them. As an experienced HR professional, I can honestly say that their approach is much better than many of their competitors.

Sian Evans - Group HR Director

"Florit Legal have assisted Croda with a number of searches over the years. I give them an exclusive mandate, since they take great care to understand our needs and waste no time in identifying the right mix of highly relevant and well briefed candidates. The behavioural assessment technology they provide for us is very helpful."

Tom Brophy - Group General Counsel & Company Secretary (FTSE 100)