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About the Role

The Director of Legal Recruiting oversees firmwide attorney recruiting, including lateral associates, counsel, entry-level attorneys, clerks, and summer associates. This role develops internal relationships, acts as a strategic advisor on recruiting matters, and builds relationships with search firms. The position champions AI-enabled recruiting tools and supports the full lifecycle of an attorney at the Firm.

Responsibilities

Understand and identify lateral associate and counsel needs, and define and execute recruitment strategy.
Implement best practices in lateral associate recruiting, interviewing, hiring, and offer processes.
Establish strong, effective relationships with third-party search firms and manage search firm agreements.
Leverage AI-enabled recruiting tools to surface market and compensation intelligence, and streamline pipeline tracking and reporting.
Facilitate strategic decision-making throughout the hiring process and implement scalable structures and processes for lateral recruiting.
Work with the talent team on attorney integration, including partner integration.
Oversee efforts to improve candidate experiences, from initial application submission through onboarding.
Understand associate market compensation, bonuses, and competitive lateral associate offer packages.
Ensure each hire makes a smooth transition into the firm.
Work with Hiring Chair and Hiring Partners to ensure that entry level hiring needs are met.
Advise and lead efforts to hire summer / entry-level associates that are exceptionally qualified.
Build and deepen law school relations and oversee communications and engagement.
Direct the Firm’s summer associate program, including onboarding, work assignment system, feedback, summer associate reviews, social events, and offer process.
Manage and support an environment of open feedback throughout summer program.
Establish trust-based advisor relationships with firm leadership.
Manage and analyze firm-wide recruiting data and prepare presentations to firm leadership.
Propose hiring projections and analysis and general recommendations as to hiring goals and strategies.
Track market trends and propose policy modifications.
Develop attorney interviewer trainings for all levels of attorney recruiting and implement recruiting and hiring best practices.
Prepare, manage and track spend to a detailed annual budget.
Be accountable to Hiring Committee and Firm management on managing department costs, programing and event expenditures, search firm costs, on campus interview programs.
Strategically recruit diverse talent and lead efforts to comply with the Mansfield Rule.
Perform other related duties as assigned.

Requirements

Demonstrated leadership qualities, including excellent interpersonal and collaborative skills, strategic and innovative thinking, an ability to persuade and influence, and strong professional presence.
Proven experience with the ability to retain, develop and motivate exceptional talent development professionals.
Strong managerial skills, including the ability to exercise discretion and independent judgment with respect to matters of significance.
Executive presence, tenacity, integrity, and professionalism that will engender confidence with attorneys, administrative leadership, and prospective candidates.
Strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to work effectively in a consensus-driven organization and to create consensus-based support.
Excellent written and oral communication skills.
Comfort and fluency with AI-enabled recruiting tools and technology, and a demonstrated ability to champion their adoption to improve sourcing, screening, and decision-making.
Bachelor's degree.
At least 10 years of attorney/legal recruiting experience within a law firm or law school environment.
Significant experience managing attorney recruiting programs, including lateral partner recruitment.
Demonstrated track record of effectively leading and developing high-performing teams.

Skills

Interpersonal skills
Collaborative skills
Strategic thinking
Innovative thinking
Persuasion
Influence
Professional presence
Talent development
Managerial skills
Discretion
Independent judgment
Executive presence
Tenacity
Integrity
Professionalism
Consensus building
Written communication
Oral communication
AI-enabled recruiting tools
Recruiting technology
Sourcing
Screening
Decision-making

Location

U.S. offices

Work Type

Hybrid
Full-time
Exempt

Experience Level

10+ years attorney/legal recruiting experience
Significant experience managing attorney recruiting programs
Experience leading and developing high-performing teams

Education Level

Bachelor's degree
Master's degree or J.D. preferred

Salary/Compensations

$168,000 - $251,250

Benefits

Healthcare
Life Insurance
Health Savings Accounts
Flexible Spending Accounts
Wellbeing
Discretionary bonus

About the Company

At Fenwick, we believe that our partners and employees are our most important asset.
Helping you and your families achieve and maintain good health - physical, emotional, and financial - is the reason we offer a comprehensive benefit program.