Legal recruitment consultants are experts at identifying, sourcing and recruiting suitable candidates for legal jobs in law firms and in house legal departments. Our company has over 50 years of combined professional experience handling permanent and locum legal recruitment roles for our clients, most of whom return to us regularly to assist with new roles and expansion. Our company goes one step further – we also assist with mergers & acquisitions of law firms, so always happy to assist with the recruitment of departments, bolt on law firms, mergers and growth through acquisition.
Recruitment consultants generally are employment agencies attempting to locate potential candidates for employers as well as work with candidates to source suitable jobs. They work by advertising for candidates to register with them and then charging employers for the introduction to the candidates. The term “recruitment agency” tends to be used for more general recruitment – eg lorry drivers or nurses – but the principle is the same. Technically we are an employment agency and not an employment business. These are terms used in UK legislation to differentiate between recruitment companies who employ candidates to do temporary work (these are called an “employment business”) and those who introduce candidates only (an “employment agency”). We fall into the latter category – our locum solicitors usually work on a self-employed or limited company basis.
