SENIOR LEGAL RECRUITING SPECIALIST

Summary

The Senior Legal Recruiting Specialist will source candidates, as well as manage and coordinate all aspects of partner and non-partner attorney candidate hiring across offices. Responsibilities will include but not limited to working closely with the Chief Legal Recruiting Officer, Office Managing Partners (OMPs), Department Chairs and Hiring Managers to identify sourcing needs and innovative solutions; reviewing candidate applications and resumes, coordinating interviews and candidate evaluations, updating applicant tracking database, responding to candidate inquiries and maintaining contact throughout the recruiting cycle, collecting and analyzing due diligence information.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Sources candidates, screens resumes, and forwards potential candidates to appropriate department chairs/hiring managers for review.
• Follows-up with interviewers/hiring managers, candidates, and recruiters with appropriate updates, and outstanding matters.
• Assists with special recruitment projects as needed, e.g. reservations for group dinners, travel needs, etc.
• Manages and organizes candidate files with all necessary documentation.
• Participates in meetings as requested to take notes, follow-up, etc.
• Coordinate with The Director of Legal Recruiting Operations on employment and background searches.
• Facilitate and complete reference gathering process.
• Produces and circulates recruiting reports and updates.
• Applicant tracking of all sourced and review lateral candidates.
• Reviews and analyzes predictive metrics and analytics for process improvement and efficiency indicators.
  
  
  

The employee must be able to perform all essential job duties and responsibilities of this position satisfactorily and as outlined, with or without reasonable accommodations. Reasonable accommodation requests may be accommodated, absent undue firm hardship.

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities Required

• Bachelor’s degree conjunctively with a minimum of three to five years of legal recruiting experience.
• Demonstrated solid project management skills, superior attention to detail and the ability to proofread reports and materials for grammatical, typographical and spelling errors.
• Interpersonal skills necessary in order to communicate and follow the instructions effectively from a diverse group of attorneys and staff and provide information with accuracy, professionalism, courtesy and tact.
• Demonstrated ability to represent the firm in a professional manner at all times.
• Superior ability to prioritize and execute tasks in a high pressure environment.
• Work occasionally requires more than 40 hours per week to perform duties of the position.
  
  
  

Working Conditions

• Normal law office environment with little exposure to excessive noise, dust, temperature and the like. The above is intended to describe the general content of and requirements for the performance of this job. It is not to be construed as an exhaustive statement of essential functions, responsibilities or requirements.
  
  
  

This job description describes the general requirements of this position. It does NOT contain a comprehensive listing of job duties or responsibilities required in this job. Subject to firm needs, duties and responsibilities of this position may change at any time, on a temporary or permanent basis, and with or without notice.

Equal Employment Opportunity and Diversity Statement

Barnes & Thornburg is committed to equal employment opportunity in both principle and as a matter of policy. We will recruit, hire, train, promote, compensate and provide benefits to all applicants and employees without regard to ancestry, sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, gender, age, religion, religious creed, mental and/or physical disability, medical condition, military and/or veteran’s status, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state and local laws. This policy applies to all recruiting, hiring, promotions, upgrades, layoffs, compensation, benefits, terminations and all other privileges, terms and conditions of employment. The firm complies fully with all federal, state and local equal employment opportunity laws.