East Coast Attorney Recruiting Specialist

Overview

This role supports full-cycle attorney recruiting for assigned East Coast and Southeast offices, with primary responsibility for lateral associate and counsel hiring across those markets. The Attorney Recruiting Specialist serves as a recruiting partner to office leadership, practice group leaders, and hiring attorneys, managing multiple searches with limited day-to-day direction. The position also supports law student recruiting and the Summer Clerk Program across assigned offices.

Responsibilities

Lateral Attorney Recruiting

• Execute full-cycle recruiting for assigned associate and of counsel searches across East Coast and Southeast offices (with support for other offices as business needs require).
• Partner with Regional Managing Partners, office leadership, practice group leaders, and hiring attorneys to understand current and anticipated hiring needs, develop search strategies, and provide regular recruiting updates.
• Build and maintain candidate pipelines through direct sourcing, LinkedIn Recruiter, referrals, networking, internal leads, and approved search firms.
• Source, screen, and evaluate candidates against defined hiring needs; prepare concise candidate summaries and recommendations for hiring teams.
• Manage candidate communications throughout the recruiting lifecycle, including outreach, interview coordination, follow-up, offer-stage engagement, and post-acceptance communication.
• Coordinate offer preparation, negotiations, and acceptance activity with recruiting leadership and firm administration.
• Manage relationships with approved search firms, including submissions, communication, search status, and adherence to firm recruiting policies.
• Monitor recruiting pipelines, identify stalled searches or market constraints, and recommend adjustments to sourcing strategy, search criteria, or outreach approach.
• Provide market intelligence regarding candidate availability, compensation expectations, competitor activity, and other developments impacting assigned searches.
• Support onboarding initiation and transition activities for new attorney hires in coordination with Human Resources, Professional Development, IT, Office Administrators, and hiring attorneys.

Law Student Recruiting

• Support law student recruiting initiatives for assigned East Coast and Southeast offices, including on-campus recruiting, first-year hiring, callback interviews, recruiting events, and the Summer Clerk Program.
• Coordinate candidate and attorney communications, interviews, offers, and follow-up activity for law student candidates as assigned.
• Partner with Recruiting Managers and team members to deliver a consistent, high-quality candidate and summer clerk experience across offices.
• Participate in planning and execution of office-specific law student recruiting strategies based on hiring needs, market conditions, and program objectives.

Recruiting Operations, Reporting & Team Support

• Maintain complete and accurate candidate, requisition, source, and hiring information in viRecruit and other recruiting systems.
• Monitor recruiting activity, pipeline status, hiring metrics, source effectiveness, and time-to-fill; prepare reports to support team and leadership visibility.
• Use recruiting data and market information to identify opportunities to improve sourcing effectiveness, candidate conversion, workflow, and overall recruiting outcomes.
• Contribute to recruiting process improvement, technology adoption, and firmwide recruiting initiatives and special projects.
• Provide guidance and workflow support to Recruiting Coordinators as appropriate, reinforcing consistent recruiting practices and data quality standards.
• Process recruiting-related expenses and provide administrative coordination as needed.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Four or more years of law firm lateral attorney recruiting experience required.
• Demonstrated experience leading full-cycle recruiting and independently advancing multiple searches from intake through acceptance.
• Strong direct-sourcing capability, including experience using LinkedIn Recruiter and other tools to identify, engage, and build relationships with passive candidates.
• Ability to assess candidate experience and qualifications against defined hiring needs and provide clear, concise recommendations to hiring teams.
• Strong relationship-management skills and ability to build credibility with attorneys, candidates, search firms, and internal stakeholders.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with sound judgment and discretion in handling confidential and sensitive information.
• Exceptional organization, project management, and time-management skills, with ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience working with applicant tracking systems required. Experience with viGlobal/viRecruit and iManage preferred.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite; experience with recruiting analytics, reporting, and data quality strongly preferred.
• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively within a geographically dispersed team.
• Curiosity about recruiting technology and willingness to adopt tools and processes that improve sourcing, reporting, candidate experience, and recruiting effectiveness.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with viGlobal/viRecruit and iManage.
• Recruiting analytics, reporting, and data quality experience.

Compensation & Benefits

Compensation

• Competitive annualized salary range of $83,000–$95,000 for the Atlanta, Charlotte, Tampa and Nashville markets.
• Competitive annualized salary range of $90,000–$110,000 for New York, Boston and Washington, D.C. markets.
• Actual base pay within the applicable range will be determined by factors including location, relevant experience, internal equity, skills, qualifications, and other job-related factors permitted by law.

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) plan with profit sharing
• 18 days of vacation
• 10 accrued sick days per calendar year
• 10 paid holidays per benefit year
• Wellness programs
• 24/7 telehealth services

Location & Work Arrangement

• Hybrid or remote.
• Candidates must reside on the East Coast or in the Southeast, within reasonable travel distance of an office, to be considered.
• The role may be performed fully remotely or in a hybrid arrangement, with the option to work from an office two to three days per week.
• Periodic travel may be required for recruiting events, office meetings, or law student recruiting activities.

Additional Notes

• This position description is not necessarily all-inclusive; additional duties and responsibilities may be assigned, and requirements may vary from time to time.
• During initial screening, AI may be used to compare skills and job titles from your resume with the job description. This is not an Automated Employment Decision Tool (AEDT) and will not be used to make selection decisions.
• Relocation costs are not covered.
• Direct applicants only; third-party recruiters or agencies will not be considered.
• No phone inquiries.