Legal recruiting, from someone who spent a decade doing it inside Big Law.

Law firms run on people. Their product is their lawyers, and the teams that recruit, develop, and keep those lawyers shape everything else: the associate class, the lateral pipeline, the culture, and whether the best people stay long enough to make partner.

Legal is also its own world, with its own calendar, hierarchy, and unwritten rules. Summer programs, lateral integration, partnership tracks, billable-hour culture. Most recruiters learn it from the outside. Companies hiring for legal roles face the same problem: they need people who understand how legal actually works.

I've been that hire. Ten years inside attorney recruiting and professional development at Kirkland & Ellis, Weil Gotshal & Manges, and Locke Lord, from recruiting assistant to Director. I know the job, the firms, and the people. That's not something a keyword filter can replicate.