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Hiring Talent for Legal Contract and Direct-Hire Jobs

Exclusively Legal's Hiring Process

At Exclusively Legal, our focus on developing personal relationships means clients can count on us to manage the search and placement process to a successful conclusion. Clients gain highly responsive business partners who work quickly to deliver legal staffing services with successful results.

We’re ready and able to take on unique recruiting requests for our valued clients. Whether it’s for a position they’ve never hired before, a special circumstance that requires bilingual attorneys or placement of law firm directors and more, we’re up for the challenge.

Eventually, we get to know our clients so well that we can selectively market candidates that would be a fit for a client’s organization. We become experts in what types of professionals would best represent a client’s law firm or corporate legal department and who would make an immediate contribution to their organization – even without an open request.

And although we have a methodology that’s repeatedly proved successful (our placements for legal direct-hire jobs have more than a 95% success rate), we typically provide each client with a customized approach. Depending on the type of legal position and the market we’re searching in, the basics of our staffing process include:

Quest for the Best

Applicants are thoroughly screened to ensure we present legal professionals for contract and direct-hire jobs that have potential for a long-term match. Our screening process starts with in-depth conversation to get to know the candidate on a personal level.

Our legal recruiters spend time to find out what candidates are looking for in a career or legal assignment, why they may be leaving their current role, what their strengths and weaknesses are and more. This step in the process demands open communication, and our legal recruiters are always forthright with clients and candidates if we feel a match doesn't exist.

For direct-hire candidates, our screening includes action items like background investigations, a seven-year criminal history evaluation and no fewer than two reference checks. Other criteria include proficiency testing in Microsoft Word, legal spelling and vocabulary, typing and more.

Although we manage the search and placement process from start to finish, making it simple for our clients, our legal recruiters are in constant communication with clients so they’re actively engaged in the progress. Our adherence to our core value system means an unwavering commitment to delivering the type of follow through and results our clients have come to expect from Exclusively Legal. And, we always aim for the long-term fit. That’s why clients receive an unmatched guarantee on all placements and why we’ve garnered a network of trusted referrals.