Job Description - Advisor, Experienced Legal Recruitment (250000WK)

Advisor, Experienced Legal Recruitment

Are you ready to make your mark as part of our London Recruitment Team? Then you’ve come to the right place. At White & Case, we’ll support you, give you responsibility and welcome you as an integral member of our international team from day one.

We are seeking a Recruitment Advisor to join our friendly and high performing Recruitment team, part of our wider People/ HR department. You will report into and work closely with the Recruitment Manager who are responsible for Associate and Counsel recruitment based in our London office. Recruiters are supported by shared service, offering effective interview scheduling support.

Candidates for this role should have a strong recruiting background, having worked in house or agency previously, including highly developed organisation and stakeholder management skills as well as excellent communication skills.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the Experienced Legal Hiring Recruitment Manager on London Associate and Counsel hiring, owning some end-to-end recruitment processes.
• Ownership of the full recruitment lifecycle for all London Legal Support roles, including Legal Assistant/Paralegal, Professional Support Lawyers, and Knowledge roles.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with external recruitment agencies, supporting hiring managers in recruitment best practices.
• Collaborate with Recruitment Partners to ensure timely, commercial recruitment of top-tier talent.
• Actively promote sourcing strategies, including employee referrals, external advertising, and the use of preferred recruitment agencies.
• Deploy, and serve as a Champion, for global recruitment systems (Taleo/ServiceNow/Workday), ensuring best practice and effective use.
• Collaborate with partners and hiring managers to agree on sourcing strategies and implement innovative approaches, such as market mapping where appropriate.
• Foster strong stakeholder relationships and increase their value to the recruitment process.
• Source, screen, and shortlist high-quality candidates through a variety of direct sourcing activities, including social media, employee referrals, and headhunting using tools like such as Pirical and LinkedIn.
• Organize and lead agency briefings for active recruitment roles.
• Conduct screening interviews with potential candidates to assess candidate suitability.
• Act as a brand ambassador for the firm, ensuring representation aligns with firm values and best practices.
• Produce recruitment reports and analytics on ongoing recruitment efforts and processes.
• Encourage and implement recruitment best practices across the firm, driving continuous improvement.
• Manage all recruitment-related invoicing for London legal roles.
• Assist with firm events and initiatives as required.
• Collaborate with the shared services team, who handle interview scheduling, ensuring smooth coordination.
• Work closely with the onboarding team to ensure a seamless transition from offer acceptance to day one at the firm.

Qualifications & Skills

• An interest in the legal industry and legal career pathways.
• Innovative mindset, with the ability to identify opportunities to improve processes for the benefit of candidates and the firm.
• Experience in an agency or in house recruitment team. Exposure within professional services is preferred but not essential.
• A creative approach to candidate sourcing, with experience in using direct recruitment tools.
• Experience of using an Applicant tracking system (preferred but not essential).
• Excellent communication and relationship building skills with the ability to build both internal and external relationships at all seniority levels.
• Excellent candidate management skills.
• Excellent organisational skills, with the ability to manage conflicting priorities often of an urgent nature.
• Strong attention to detail, taking pride in your work.

What We Offer

When you join us, you’ll be working directly with partners, business leaders and many other inspiring colleagues across our global network of offices. We live by our values—to be pioneering, united and human—and we believe that you’ll experience them from your first day.We will give you the support and development opportunities that will help you achieve your potential.

We believe that consistent high performance merits reward and support. Our compensation package reflects your calibre as a Practice Assistant professional, and our benefits are designed to support your changing needs and priorities across different life stages.

About White & Case

We are a global law firm with longstanding offices in the markets that matter today. Our on-the-ground experience, our cross-border integration, and our depth of local, US and English-qualified lawyers help our clients work with confidence in any one market or across many.

Location and Reporting

• This is a London based role Tuesday to Thursday, home based two days a week.
• Our standard office hours are 09:30-18:00.
• This role reports to the EMEA Lateral Recruitment Manager.

Firm Benefits

We offer a flexible range of benefits, services and programmes designed to help support your lifestyle requirements. Some of the benefits currently available include:

• Private medical insurance
• Pension plan with matched employer contribution up to 7.5%
• Yearly wellbeing fund
• Income protection
• Holiday purchase
• Life insurance
• Critical Illness insurance
• Private GP services
• Travel insurance
• Dental coverage
• Cycle to work
• Holiday purchase (available during annual enrolment)

Equal Opportunity Statement

White & Case is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer and is committed to creating a fair workplace. It is our Firm’s policy to recruit, employ, train, compensate and promote without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, military or veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other category protected by applicable law.

If you require assistance and/or adjustment to participate in our application and/or interview process, please email us. We will be happy t o work with you.

Note to recruitment agencies: Our internal Recruitment team are responsible for all end-to-end lateral recruitment processes. All agencies must sign White & Case terms of business, which are office specific. Candidates submitted by an agency without terms of business agreed with the appropriate office, and/or outside of our online application tracking system, will not be considered a formal introduction.

Any applications and CVs sent directly to White & Case Partners and employees will not be accepted as formal introductions. If you have any questions, please contact the London Recruitment team.

When engaging with agencies, we are supported by our preferred suppliers.

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Expected Workplace : Hybrid

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