Legal Recruitment Assistant

My client is a leading global law firm, with an exceptional reputation, who are looking for a Legal Recruitment Assistant to join their busy, yet friendly London-based team, on a 12 month FTC basis.The Legal Recruitment Assistant will provide support across both Lateral and Partner Recruitment, working closely with the wider team. This is a great opportunity for someone looking to work in a Law Firm and gain direct exposure to the Partners and Senior Leaders.The key duties will include:Support the Legal Recruitment team and Director of Lateral Partner Recruiting with lawyer talent attraction and hiring administration, including interview coordination and scheduling with internal and external clients; gathering feedback and chasing outstanding evaluations; job board updates; accurate maintenance of the Firm’s lateral Candidate Management Systems, updating all recruitment trackers including the partner candidate portal and following through tasks for successful lawyer onboarding;Assist the Senior Manager with responding to volume search firm queries sent to the International Recruiting email address;Assist the Senior Manager and Director of Lateral Partner Recruiting with the production and tracking of fee terms for all international lawyer hiring;Ensures compliance with all hiring risk management policies and procedures;Enter new hire conflicts information into New Business Intake database and monitor clearance;Ensure all hiring practices meet the firm DEI standards, SRA compliance and are aligned with firm risk management policies and procedures;Assist with accurate and timely data gathering & reporting on all lateral recruitment activity;Attendance at regular catch-up meetings with local and global recruiting teams;Supporting with Legal recruitment projects and ad-hoc requestsThe Legal Recruitment Assistant will be educated to degree level with previous legal recruitment or HR experience. They must be confident yet discreet and have excellent communication skills across all levels of the firm. The right candidate will have flexibility with work hours with advanced proficiency in Microsoft and legal recruitment systems and previous legal recruitment experience are desirable but not essential. IMPORTANT NOTICEIt is Career Legal’s policy, as a matter of courtesy to respond to all applications within three working days. However, because of the volume of applications, we are sometimes unable to respond to individual candidates. If we have not contacted you within three working days your application has been unsuccessful and your details have not been retained. Please apply for any other position that you may see in the future. Career Legal is a Recruitment Agency and is advertising this vacancy on behalf of one of its Clients. Thank youOur websiteFor our application policy please view the link below. Career Legal is a Recruitment Business & Agency and is advertising this vacancy on behalf of one of its Clients.http://www.careerlegal.co.uk/application-policy