Legal Recruiter

Next Level Exchange; Columbus (OH); Remote; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote flexibility

Uncapped earning potential

Established legal practice

Training & Resources

Room to Grow

Established Brand

Job summary

Direct Recruiters, Inc. is seeking an experienced Legal Recruiter to join our Legal Solutions Group. The role focuses on candidate outreach, relationship-building, and guiding legal professionals through the career move process.

Remote flexibility is offered, with a preference for candidates based in Ohio or the Midwest and aligned with Eastern Time. Compensation is performance-driven with commission upside, and there is room to grow within an established legal practice.

Qualifications

• Legal recruiting experience required or strong in-house or law-firm recruiting backgrounds will be considered.
• Comfortable with proactive, phone-driven recruiting and reaching out to passive candidates.
• Organized and consistent with the ability to manage multiple searches and follow-up without losing momentum.
• Polished, professional and relationship-focused when communicating with attorneys, partners, and clients.

Responsibilities

• Identify and engage attorneys and legal professionals through outbound calling, sourcing, networking, referrals, email, and targeted outreach.
• Build trusted relationships with legal professionals, understand their career goals, and connect them with opportunities that make sense.
• Own the candidate-side execution of active searches, including pipelines, priorities, follow-up, interview coordination, and search timelines.
• Continue building your network and knowledge across law firms, corporate legal departments, and the broader legal market.
• Take on account management and client interaction based on your experience and interests.

Skills

Relationships

Phone-driven recruiting

Proactive outreach

Candidate management

Job description

Legal RecruiterDRI

is looking for an experienced, relationship-focused recruiter to join our Legal Solutions Group. This is an opportunity for someone who already understands legal recruiting and enjoys the candidate side of search - sourcing, outreach, relationship building, and helping legal professionals navigate the right career move.

What We Offer

• Remote Flexibility:
• Uncapped Earning Potential:
• Established Legal Practice:
• Training & Resources:
• Room to Grow:
• Established Brand:

Work remotely, with a preference for professionals based in Ohio or the Midwest and aligned with Eastern Time.

Flexible, performance-driven compensation with commission upside; structure can be tailored based on experience and preferred mix.

Join a specialized legal recruiting team with active client relationships, existing searches, and a strong reputation across law firms and corporate legal departments.

Access recruiter development through Next Level Exchange, DRI’s established recruiting tools and resources, and direct support from an experienced Legal Practice Leader.

Focus on recruiting first, with the opportunity to expand into account management, client development, and a fuller desk as your interests and experience grow.

Join a relationship-focused executive search firm with more than four decades in business and the resources of the broader Starfish Partners organization.

Legal recruiting is relationship-driven and highly proactive. Your day will include identifying legal talent, making outbound calls, building relationships with passive candidates, learning what motivates them, managing follow-up, and partnering closely with the Practice Leader to move searches from kickoff through placement.

The RoleLegal Recruiting:

Identify and engage attorneys and legal professionals through outbound calling, sourcing, networking, referrals, email, and targeted outreach.

Build trusted relationships with legal professionals, understand their career goals, and connect them with opportunities that make sense.

Search & Project Management:

Own the candidate-side execution of active searches, including pipelines, priorities, follow-up, interview coordination, and search timelines.

Market Expertise:

Continue building your network and knowledge across law firms, corporate legal departments, and the broader legal market.

Client-Facing Growth:

Take on account management and client interaction based on your experience and interests.

Who We’re Looking ForLegal experience/knowledge required.

Ideally 1+ years of recruiting experience; agency/search experience preferred, but strong in-house or law-firm recruiting backgrounds will be considered.

Comfortable with proactive, phone-driven recruiting and reaching out to passive candidates.

Organized and consistent, with the ability to manage multiple searches and follow-up without losing momentum.

Polished, professional, and relationship-focused when communicating with attorneys, partners, legal leaders, and clients.

Motivated by performance, commission upside, and the opportunity to build within an established legal practice.

Ohio or Midwest location preferred

About Direct Recruiters, Inc.

Direct Recruiters, Inc. is a relationship-focused executive search firm providing contingency, retained search, and staffing solutions across specialized industries. Since 1983, DRI has partnered with organizations throughout North America to recruit and retain high-impact talent for mission-critical positions.

Our Legal Solutions Group partners with law firms and corporate legal departments to recruit attorneys and legal professionals across private practice, in-house, contract, and leadership searches. The team combines deep legal-market knowledge with a highly personal, relationship-driven approach to search.

Learn more about DRI’s Legal Solutions Group: practice-areas/legal-solutions-group/