Client Services
We have a range of comprehensive services that provide you, 'the firm', with the input to move projects forward.
Whether you are thinking of employing a new NQ, re-branding, or looking to bolt on a specialist practice, we are able to offer you sound commercial advice on the practical implications.
From Search & Selection to mainstream recruitment advertising, we offer the practical solutions you need to move your business forward with the right people on board. We can offer unparalleled market knowledge and sound practical advice to help you achieve your goals.
We are Specialists in Senior Lawyer, Counsel and Partner appointments. We have dealt with major lateral movements for Major UK City and US firms in London.
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Our range of Services to clients:
• Search & Selection (focussed proactive legal recruitment)
• Bringing the talent pool to your doorstep
• Salary Advice
• High calibre candidates
• Advertised recruitment
• Retained Searches (Traditional retained Search & Selection)
• General Recruitment advice
• Market knowledge & practical advice
• Merger/Takeover advice
• Tips
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Search & Selection (focussed proactive legal recruitment)
The traditional notion of search & selection has become somewhat blurred. The traditional headhunt has moved forward in recent years from a retained service for only the elite to far more commonplace in the legal recruitment market.
It is commonplace to hear of NQ to 2 or 3 year qualified Solicitors being headhunted for roles where in the strictest sense traditionally this only ever happened to Partners.
With changes in the market place law firms need to constantly re-invent their approach and need to draw the cream off the top of the talent pool before a competitor does the same.
If you are looking for a key appointment we will consult with you to provide a hot-list of 5 potential targets. All we need from you is a rounded understanding of:
• The culture of your firm
• The kind of individual you seek
• The salary which you would ideally like to pay
• The team dynamics
• Location
• Career progression for the future
• Your firm’s ambition for this recruit
In return we will come back to you with a hot list of at least five candidates with a search & selection report on each individual candidate based on the above, highlighting:
• Levels of experience
• Portable business? (if appropriate)
• Intention and motivation to move
• Personality
• Suitability for the intended role
• Salary expectation
• Future ambitions for there career
Our range of candidates grows on a daily basis from new applicants, referrals or recommendations. Therefore we can draw upon a huge range of potentially suitable candidates for your needs. If we do not have the right candidate for you we are able to draw upon our market knowledge and find them for you. These might be candidates who were not actively looking for opportunities, but who would be potentially interested in discussing an opening with your firm.
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Want to keep things under wraps?
Alternatively where the market is tight, and you have an idea of the person who you want to bring on board, then we are more than happy to make discreet approaches to potential targets before revealing who is interested.
In a tight market it is often hard to stick your head above the parapet, but with legal23.co.uk a solution is not far away. With experience ranging from sounding out niche lawyers in extremely narrow and competitive areas of the London market, to headhunting big players legal23.co.uk can offer you an added dimension in candidate sourcing.
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Why opt for legal23.co.uk?
Are you sceptical about the motivation of the large ‘so called big players’ in the legal recruitment market? Do you trust them not to simply gossip about your firm’s politics or short comings to serve their own ends if too much information is imparted to them? We don't subscribe to that ethos. With us, tact and discretion is the byword.
Let legal23.co.uk change your perceptions about the level and quality of service you can receive.
legal23.co.uk offers confidential professional advice to firms and candidates alike about the realistic aims and pitfalls surrounding a potential recruit.
Whether a partner has just been poached by a competitor, or you are looking for an NQ, then look no further than legal23.co.uk for an honest upfront and hands on approach to your requirements.
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Salary Advice?
With an ever changing market place it is often difficult to put your finger upon an exact tariff for any one lawyer. legal23.co.uk can draw upon its market knowledge to advise clients in this area.
The common salary survey approach can be often slightly misleading and somewhat self perpetuating depending upon the source, so, per se, legal23.co.uk will not publish a salary survey, but will draw upon experience and independent external sources.
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Brand building/maintaining.
Firms traditionally spend a great deal of time, effort and finances on attracting potential clients. It is a competitive market so this is a justifiable cost. One area in which a lot of firms ‘fall short’ is attracting potential employees. A lot of firms undertake recruitment fairs at Universities for tomorrow’s lawyers but this is not finding today’s lawyers.
The old saying that you can only make one first impression has never been more apt.
Candidates can often gain an impression of a firm whether it is right or wrong from either what they read in the legal press or what friends and colleagues have heard or experienced. The reporting of urban myth like stories can get twisted by the rumour mill, and are sometimes ludicrous, or simply factually incorrect.
Changing perception does not happen overnight, but can certainly be addressed. If you feel that your firm needs to attract a particular type of candidate then feel free to call legal23.co.uk to discuss in confidence a strategy to address your needs.
We can’t count how many times we have had lawyers object to a certain firm because of the rumours they heard from a friend of a friend only to end up scrambling to join the very same firm.
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Whatever it takes to achieve the goal.
legal23.co.uk will do whatever it takes to bring the right candidate to your doorstep. Whether it means answering emails at midnight, or being available to speak whenever you need us, legal23.co.uk will go that extra mile.
With a 'can do' attitude legal23.co.uk are positive experts in the legal recruitment market.
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Your time management.
The biggest criticism we hear from Law firms and HR staff is that they would like to get their work done without being bombarded with calls from recruiters. At legal23.co.uk we pledge to not waste your time. We will simply deliver results in an ultra professional manner with sincerity.
To put it simply, we know you have got better things to do than talk to us every five minutes, so we will leave you to do your work and simply let action speak louder than words. We will call you when we have found the person you requested, or to arrange the interview for your potential recruit.
We believe that this helps build the relationship in its truest sense because we won’t have annoyed you by ringing to simply say “Hi”, and you will not have had ten different consultants call to introduce themselves.
We hope that you appreciate this approach and that it will help you make the time to speak to us when we do call – because it will be important.
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The Cost.
A fee is only charged upon successful placement of a candidate.
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