Director Of Attorney Recruiting

Director of Attorney Recruiting page is loaded Director of Attorney Recruiting Apply locations Silicon Valley New York San Francisco Washington, D.C. Seattle time type Full time posted on Posted 16 Days Ago job requisition id R2340 Job Description Summary:
The Director of Attorney Recruiting is responsible for overseeing attorney recruiting firmwide, including lateral associates and counsel, entry level attorneys, and summer associates. The Director of Attorney Recruiting will develop strong internal relationships across all practice groups and business departments and become a strategic advisor to Firm leaders on all matters relating to legal recruiting. This position will also require investment in relationships with search firms and other recruiters, employing successful tactics for sourcing and contacting potential candidates. This position can be based in any of our U.S. offices and offers a hybrid work arrangement, allowing you to work both from home and at your designated Fenwick office. The frequency of in-office work will be determined by business needs and guided by your department's directives. Job Description: Lateral Associate/Counsel Recruiting In close collaboration with Practice Group Leaders and the Practice Management leads, understand and identify lateral associate and counsel needs, and define and execute recruitment strategy for meeting those needs. Work with them to develop understanding of the Firm's practice areas to ensure that there is alignment on hiring criteria, particularly when specialized expertise is targeted.Implement best practices in lateral associate recruiting, interviewing, hiring, and offer processes.Establish strong, effective relationships with third-party search firms. Regularly communicate hiring priorities and strategy, articulating the value proposition for various key hires. Through relationship building, create brand ambassadors for the Firm in the marketplace. Manage search firm agreements.Facilitate strategic decision-making throughout the hiring process and implement scalable structures and processes for lateral recruiting.Oversee efforts to improve candidate experiences, from initial application submission through onboarding.In collaboration with Legal Personnel, deep understanding of associate market compensation, bonuses, and competitive lateral associate offer packages.Work collaboratively with the Legal Personnel and Practice Management departments to ensure each hire makes a smooth transition into the firm. Summer Program and Law School Recruiting Work with Hiring Chair and Hiring Partners to ensure that entry level hiring needs are met, based on Practice Group projected needs.Advise and lead efforts to hire summer / entry-level associates that are exceptionally qualified for Fenwick's legal practices and locations.Facilitate strategic decision-making throughout the hiring process and implement scalable structures and processes for law student and entry-level associate recruiting.Build and deepen law school relations. Oversee communications and engagement. Help ensure development of Firm ambassadors within law schools.Direct the Firm's summer associate program, including onboarding, work assignment system, feedback, summer associate reviews, social events, and offer process. Work closely with Hiring Partners and Recruiting Committee on active engagement. Manage and support an environment of open feedback throughout summer program.Be a firm champion of the summer associate program, encouraging involvement across the firm at all levels to create the best summer associate experience possible.General Responsibilities Establish trust-based advisor relationships with firm leadership. Become the face of the department and go-to resource to share expertise, judgment and guidance on firm recruiting strategies.Manage and analyze firm-wide recruiting data; prepare and deliver presentations to firm leadership on recruiting goals, successes, challenges, strategies and market trends. Propose hiring projections and analysis and general recommendations as to hiring goals and strategies. Track market trends and propose policy modifications.Develop attorney interviewer trainings for all levels of attorney recruiting and implement recruiting and hiring best practices. Stay abreast of market trends.Prepare, manage and track spend to a detailed annual budget. Be accountable to Hiring Committee and Firm management on managing department costs, programing and event expenditures, search firm costs, on campus interview programs, etc. with an emphasis on strategic judgment and decisions on recruitment expenditures. Support lateral partner recruiting process and efforts as needed.Represent the Firm at various national and regional forums relating to hiring and recruitment.Work collaborative across all groups and departments within the firm to ensure the candidate experience is well coordinated.Strategically recruit diverse talent and lead efforts to comply with the Mansfield Rule.Perform other related duties as assigned. Desired Skills and Qualifications Demonstrated leadership qualities, including excellent interpersonal and collaborative skills, strategic and innovative thinking, an ability to persuade and influence, and strong professional presence. Proven experience with the ability to retain, develop and motivate exceptional talent development professionals. Strong managerial skills, including the ability to exercise discretion and independent judgment with respect to matters of significance. Executive presence, tenacity, integrity, and professionalism that will engender confidence with attorneys, administrative leadership, and prospective candidates.Strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to work effectively in a consensus-driven organization and to create consensus-based support.Excellent written and oral communication skills. Reporting to the Senior Director of Legal Personnel, Training, and Recruiting, the qualified candidate will have a bachelor's degree plus at least 10 years' experience in legal recruiting in law firms or law school (master's degree or JD a plus). Experience overseeing attorney recruiting programs, including lateral partner recruiting, and a p roven track record of effectively leading a team.
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Benefits and Compensation Details: At Fenwick, we believe that our partners and employees are our most important asset. Helping you and your families achieve and maintain good health - physical, emotional, and financial - is the reason we offer a comprehensive benefit program. We provide benefits to eligible employees under plans such as Healthcare, Life Insurance, Health Savings Accounts, Flexible Spending Accounts, and Wellbeing.
The anticipated range for this position is:
$172,000 - $233,500Depending on the role, the actual base salary offered may depend upon a variety of factors, including without limitation, the qualifications of the individual applicant for the position, years of relevant experience, level of education attained, certifications or other professional licenses held, and if applicable, the location in which the applicant lives and/or from which they will be performing the job.
A discretionary bonus for eligible employees may also be available based on performance. Additional information about employee eligibility for benefits and discretionary bonus will be made available upon request.

For more than five decades, Fenwick & West has helped some of the world's most recognized companies become, and remain, market leaders. From emerging enterprises to large public corporations, our clients are leaders in the technology, life sciences and cleantech sectors and are fundamentally changing the world through rapid innovation.
Having worked alongside such progressive and cutting edge companies for so long, our culture has come to reflect the entrepreneurial spirit of our client base. Unlike traditional law firms, we move at our clients' speed and have earned the reputation as a go-to law firm for growing companies that need insightful, strategic counsel to help tackle the challenging issues that arise when the law cannot keep up with their pace of innovation.
With the same passion for excellence and innovation reflected in our client base, our firm is making revolutionary changes to the practice of law through substantial investments in proprietary technology tools and processes. Our clients demand—and deserve—new ways to receive best-in-class legal services more effectively. At Fenwick, we are proud to be shaping our legal services to do just that. We are proud to have been named one of the Best Places to Work in the Bay Area for the twelfth year. 
Equal Opportunity Employer Fenwick & West LLP is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and, as such, conducts all employment-related activities without regard to unlawful consideration of race, religion, color, marital status, national origin, age, sex, disability, sexual orientation or gender identity, gender, genetic characteristics or any other classification protected by applicable local, state or federal employment discrimination laws. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all.
Agency SubmissionsAt the discretion of the recruiting department, we accept submissions by agency recruiters when a fee agreement has been established between the firm and the agency. Agency recruiters, please submit candidates here .
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