Legal Recruitment Manager

Lawyers on Demand; Cardiff; Hybrid; GBP 38,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

Lawyers on Demand (LOD) is seeking a proactive recruiter to identify and engage lawyers and paralegals for a growing client base. You will be the primary contact for candidates, manage applications, and nurture long-term relationships with legal professionals across the UK.

You will screen applicants, coordinate interviews, and lead talent-pool development while supporting strategic recruitment initiatives. A minimum of four years in recruitment, ideally legal, is expected.

Qualifications

• Minimum 4 years of recruitment experience, preferably in the legal sector.
• Strong communication and relationship-building with lawyers and clients.
• Ability to manage expectations and work across teams.

Responsibilities

• Source lawyers and paralegals for current and upcoming opportunities.
• Screen applicants and lead interviews to assess fit and capacity.
• Maintain talent pools and update teams on availability and interest.
• Create compelling job ads to attract top legal professionals.
• Manage recruitment campaigns and ad hoc projects to improve processes.
• Represent LOD as a first point of contact and build long-term relationships.

Skills

Recruitment

Legal industry

Stakeholder management

LinkedIn Recruiter

Tools

LinkedIn Recruiter

Applicant tracking system

Job description

Overall Role: To support the LOD business by proactively finding lawyers and paralegals for our growing base of clients and opportunities., Our recruitment team play a vital part in attracting and securing the best legal professionals for our team, whether it's qualified lawyers, paralegals or legal operations professionals. You'll have a pivotal role representing LOD with those groups as their first point of contact but also in maintaining our relationships with them for the long term., Screening: Taking a lead in speaking with lawyers who want to know more or want to apply to join LOD. Helping to select the best people for our short term and long term needs while responsibly managing the expectations of lawyers who we may not be able to help immediately.

Application processing : Working with the team to ensure applications are processed quickly and efficiently whilst maintaining the highest standards when dealing with potential joiners.

Managing talent pools : Proactively managing existing talent pools and working with the recruitment and engagement management teams to ensure we have a strong understanding of the experience, availability, and fit of those lawyers for live assignments. You'll play a key role in giving teams across the business visibility of who we have available and keeping the lawyers updated on opportunities they're being considered for. You'll also take the lead on growing pools of lawyers in areas that are growing, such as data protection and compliance.

Recruitment advertising: Writing detailed, creative and informative advertising to sell LOD as a concept as well as to attract specific lawyers for current and future needs. Proactively sourcing LODs on Linkedin using a fully provisioned recruiter licence.

Strategic projects: Leading or supporting on strategic recruitment projects such as marketing and advertising campaigns, reengagement initiatives and developing new talent pipelines. Also continually reviewing and refining the LOD recruitment process and systems that support it.

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 and maintain 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 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., Have equivalent experience in a similar role

At least 4 years of recruitment experience, ideally within the legal industry

Have the ability to quickly gain credibility and respect from highly qualified professionals

Ideally have some understanding of the legal or other professional services sector

Be experienced in engaging with technology, the internet, and social media in a business context

Experienced with Linkedin (particularly Recruiter) is advantageous but not essential

Strong team player with a sense of ownership and initiative to drive things forward

Be creative and open-minded yet not afraid of using data and processes

LOD is the leading flexible legal service provider across several locations in the UK, Asia, Australia and America. We are both changing the way in which clients buy legal services and providing talented lawyers with a new way of working.

We've achieved some of the fastest growth in our sector by creating and leading a new professional service category. That growth continues as we launch new services, responding to the way our lawyers want to work and clients want to engage them. This role offers an opportunity to be part of this story.

LOD has caught the imagination of the changing legal marketplace for 'new law' services. We now have a team of around 600 lawyers and consultants of the highest quality working with an inspiring client list from globally recognised multinationals to start-ups.

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.

Ideals at LOD

This may seem a rather lofty topic but we see on a daily basis that giving people the chance to work differently can have a positive impact on the world. We run LOD with that in mind for our lawyers and for our clients. It's also crucial for our employees in the HQ team - each employee has a chance to truly engage and to make a difference in what they do.

You at LOD?

Our HQ team members come from varied backgrounds but we want them all to enjoy their work while collaborating with talented people on a shared mission. If you think you would like to be part of that, we'd love to hear from you. By joining us, you can not only be part of a high growth business, but you can also influence the transformation in the legal sector.