Legal Recruitment Manager

WilmerHale; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 144,700 - 180,893; Full time

Job summary

WilmerHale is seeking a Legal Recruitment Manager in Washington, D.C. to oversee attorney recruitment, onboarding and the summer program while supervising recruitment coordinators and coordinating across offices.

You'll drive recruitment data integrity, budgeting, and process improvements, ensuring top-quality service to internal clients and external vendors. Strong leadership and analytical skills are essential to success in this role.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Minimum two years’ management experience and three years’ relevant legal, personnel or recruitment experience.
• Excellent interpersonal, written and organizational skills.

Responsibilities

• Oversees recruitment processes and reporting and works collaboratively with Recruitment Managers across offices.
• Supervises, guides, develops and trains recruitment coordinators and assistants.
• Actively participates to help align recruitment efforts, best practices and strategy across offices.
• Develops and maintains a recruitment budget; manages monthly monitoring of accounts and resolves discrepancies.
• Ensures accuracy of recruitment and interview process data and assists with compliance and reporting.
• Keeps abreast of industry trends and best practices.
• Assumes other responsibilities as assigned, including firm-wide projects.
• Additionally leads Summer Associate Program design and execution, law school and clerk recruitment, and lateral attorney hiring.

Skills

Leadership

Attention to detail

Written communication

Analytical skills

Organizational skills

Time management

Oral communication

Teamwork

Multi-tasking

Technical skills

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

LawCruit

viDesktop

WebEx

Flo Recruit

Job description

WilmerHale is a leading, full-service international law firm with 1,000 lawyers located throughout 12 offices in the United States and Europe. Our lawyers work at the intersection of government, technology and business, and we remain committed to our guiding principles of providing quality, excellent legal and client services; developing diversity among our lawyers and staff and cultivating an environment that promotes an ambitious spirit, collaboration and collegiality by drawing on the extraordinary talents and dynamic experience of our lawyers. Our goal is to reflect the diversity of our clients and the communities in which we practice.

About the Role

Responsible for the effective, efficient and consistent delivery of recruitment functions and communications including, but not limited to, all aspects of attorney recruiting and hiring , onboarding and integration, the execution of the firm’s summer programs, law school recruitment and non-partner lateral hiring as well as additional projects upon request. Supervises, develops and trains recruitment coordinators and assistants.

The Legal Recruitment Manager should work collaboratively in achieving the firm's and Legal Personnel and Development Department’s goals and objectives, with primary responsibility of the Washington, D.C. Office.

Ensures that staff members are providing quality service to internal members/departments of the firm as well as external clients and vendors by displaying professionalism via electronic and print correspondence, over the telephone and in-person and by encouraging an atmosphere that rewards a “can-do” attitude.

What You Will Be Doing

• Oversees recruitment processes and reporting and works collaboratively with Recruitment Managers across offices.
• Supervises, guides, develops and trains recruitment coordinators and assistants.
• Actively participates to help align recruitment efforts, best practices and strategy across offices.
• In alignment with the firm’s strategic goals, objectives and initiatives, develops and maintains a recruitment budget. Manages monthly monitoring of the accounts, anticipates and resolves discrepancies.
• Ensures accuracy of recruitment and interview process data and assists with compliance and reporting.
• Keeps abreast of industry trends and best practices.
• Assumes other responsibilities as assigned, including the management of various firm wide and/or department wide projects.

Summer Associate Program

• In collaboration with the Legal Recruitment Department, successfully designs, manages and evaluates all aspects of the firm’s Summer Associate Program including, pre-arrival processes and communications, orientation, mentoring program with partners and associates, social and community service events, diversity initiatives, educational and special firm programming.
• In conjunction with Hiring Partner, Summer Program Co-Chairs, and Practice Managers, generates interest and solicits substantive summer associate work assignments and observational opportunities from the firm’s practice areas and pro bono programs.
• In conjunction with Hiring Partners, manages the evaluation and offer process for summer associates.

Law School and Judicial Clerk Recruitment

• In collaboration with the Hiring Partner and Legal Recruitment Coordinator , effectively and efficiently manages the judicial clerk and law school student recruitment process including supporting efforts for the firm’s branding initiatives and targeted law school communications.
• With the Hiring Partner and Legal Recruitment Department , leads the Hiring Committee and oversees successful on-campus and in-office interviewing, effective offer extension and follow up. Successfully meets hiring targets.
• Collaborate with the Inclusion and Opportunity team and Inclusion & Opportunity committee to implement recruiting initiatives.
• Ensures accuracy of hiring data. Creates and maintains reports, metrics and analysis for internal and external purposes. Review and analyze post-season metrics.
• Responsible for ensuring consistent application of firm-wide recruitment policies and procedures.
• Works with Legal Recruitment team to propose and implement strategy for law student outreach and law student intern program(s) through communications with law school placement offices, email campaigns to 1Ls, contact with student groups, and other means.

Lateral Attorney Hiring

• In collaboration with the Legal Recruitment team, locally manages aspects of the non-partner and partner lateral attorney recruitment processes. Coordinates onboarding and integration for new hires. Resource to lawyers throughout their hiring and due diligence process (conflicts process, background checks etc.)

Required Skills

What You Will Bring to This Position

• Strong leadership and management skills are required.
• Strong attention to detail, excellent written and analytical skills, organizational skills, and ability to multi-task are required.
• Strong oral communication and inter-personal skills are required.
• Ability to work in a team environment is critical. Motivation and drive are important.
• Successful time management skills are required.
• Strong technical skills on the following applications preferred: Excel, PowerPoint, LawCruit, viDesktop. Experience with WebEx and Flo Recruit is an added plus.
• Ability to juggle multiple responsibilities; excellent attention to detail; ability to take initiative and work independently.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree required.

Required Experience

• A minimum of two years’ management experience and three years’ relevant legal, personnel or recruitment experience.
• Excellent interpersonal, written and organizational skills.

Why Join Us?

A values-driven firm that fosters collaboration and respect

The hiring range for this position is $144,700 - $180,893 annually, with