Lawyer Engagement Manager

Consilio; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading flexible legal services provider in London is seeking a dynamic recruitment professional to match lawyers to client opportunities. This hybrid role requires at least 3 years of experience in legal recruiting and a proven ability to build relationships effectively. Candidates should possess strong communication skills and emotional intelligence to foster connections in the legal market.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years’ experience in consultative/legal recruiting roles.
• Ability to build positive internal and external relationships.
• High degree of emotional intelligence for assessing personality fit.

Responsibilities

• Match lawyers to client assignments effectively.
• Draft bespoke client proposals for lawyer success.
• Act as an ambassador for LOD to new joiners.

Skills

Consultative selling experience

Knowledge of Legal industry

Emotional intelligence

Strong communication skills

Creativity in problem-solving

Job description

Overview

We’re looking for a dynamic and relationship-driven professional to join our team. In this role, you’ll play a critical part in matching our lawyers to the right client opportunities and ensuring our recruitment pipeline is strong and aligned with client needs. You’ll combine strategic thinking, creativity, and operational excellence to deliver exceptional outcomes for both lawyers and clients.

This is a hybrid role based in our London office.

Responsibilities

Matching our lawyers to the right client assignment opportunities

• Quickly building strong relationships with all lawyers to successfully match them to the right client opportunities.
• Playing a key role in drafting bespoke client proposals to give the lawyer the best possible chance of success.
• Working smart to deliver client proposals as quickly and efficiently as possible in a fast-paced environment while ensuring a high-quality output.
• Being creative and going the extra mile to find the right lawyers outside of our core pool for clients with more specialist needs.

Recruiting new LOD lawyers

• Acting as an LOD ambassador in speaking and meeting with new joiners to the team – assessing their experience and fit for LOD, and our clients’ opportunities.
• Developing a deep knowledge of their technical legal experience and sector backgrounds.
• Helping to drive our recruitment and resourcing strategy based on the lawyers and client opportunities we have at any one time.

Qualifications

Your approach

• The ability to make an impact through taking ownership, good organisational skills and using initiative with a focus on the end result.
• Authentic and clear communication skills, emotional intelligence and the ability to build positive relationships both internally and externally.
• An ability to make wise decisions, seeing the big picture and root causes without losing your eye for detail.
• A curious personality and open mind to thrive, learn and engage in an entrepreneurial team and to find solutions to difficult problems.
• A genuine interest in the changing legal market and in ensuring that our LOD lawyers and clients receive the best possible experience throughout their dealings with us.
• A wish to develop long term relationships with lawyers and clients, taking the time to do so.

Your skills and qualifications

• Be highly commercial, with at least 3 years’ experience in consultative/ selling/ legal recruiting roles within professional services/B2B organisations.
• Have existing knowledge of the Legal industry and knowledge of different legal practice areas.
• Demonstrate a high degree of emotional intelligence to assess the right personality fit for both lawyers and clients.
• Consultative in approach, quickly gaining credibility and respect from highly qualified professionals.
• Creative and open-minded in finding a solution that works.
• Strong communicator that offers stakeholders the best possible service at all times.

About LOD

For almost 20 years, we’ve transformed the way in which lawyers, consultants and legal teams work. Today, we’re are the market leader for flexible legal services businesses globally, delivering hundreds of assignments and projects with the world’s leading businesses and law firms each year.

Winning numerous awards along the way, LOD is continually recognised for creating different and better ways of working for both lawyers and legal teams.

Now part of the Consilio Group, we have the global reach and scale needed to answer our clients’ complex demands and the support of a leading legal technology business to help us innovate and evolve with our customers.

Work at LOD

LOD has the spirit and excitement of an entrepreneurial growth business. LOD’s HQ team is at the core – they are the people that look after our lawyers and clients work to build the LOD business. So, working in the HQ team offers you a chance to shape how things are changing in the legal industry. What you do will have a direct effect on how our lawyers and clients work with us.

Consilio, LLC isan EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.