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Lawyer Talent Engagement Specialist / Legal Recruiter – LOD
We are looking for a dynamic, relationship-driven Lawyer Engagement Manager to join our London team. This is a pivotal role within LOD, sitting at the heart of how we support our lawyers and deliver outstanding outcomes for our clients.
You will play a critical role in matching exceptional lawyers to the right client opportunities, shaping client solutions, and ensuring our lawyer pipeline remains strong, diverse, and closely aligned to evolving client needs. You’ll combine commercial judgment, creativity, and operational rigor in a fast-paced, high-quality environment.
This is a hybrid role based in our London office.
Role Responsibilities
Matching Lawyers to Client Assignments
- Build trusted, long-term relationships with LOD lawyers to match them effectively to client opportunities.
- Draft tailored, high-quality client proposals, positioning lawyers for success.
- Deliver proposals at pace while maintaining consistently high standards in a fast-moving environment.
- Take a creative and solution-led approach to identifying lawyers, including sourcing beyond the core LOD pool when required.
Recruiting and Engaging New LOD Lawyers
- Act as an LOD ambassador, meeting and assessing new lawyers joining LOD and evaluating their suitability for client opportunities.
- Develop a strong understanding of lawyers’ technical expertise, sector knowledge, and motivations.
- Support and inform recruitment and resourcing strategy, aligned with current and future client demand.
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What We Value at LOD
- Taking ownership, using initiative, and maintaining strong organizational discipline with a focus on outcomes.
- Clear, authentic communication and high emotional intelligence.
- Sound judgment with the ability to balance big-picture thinking and attention to detail.
- Curiosity and openness, thriving in an entrepreneurial and solutions-focused environment.
- A genuine interest in the evolving legal market and delivering an exceptional lawyer and client experience.
- A commitment to building long-term, trusted relationships.
Skills and Experience
- At least 2 years’ experience in a consultative, commercial, or legal recruitment role within professional services or a B2B environment.
- Experience recruiting within the Legal Engineer space would be beneficial but not essential.
- A strong understanding of the legal profession and different legal practice areas.
- Highly commercial, with excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills.
- Consultative in approach, able to build credibility quickly with senior legal professionals.
- Creative, pragmatic, and solutions-focused.
- A strong communicator committed to delivering high-quality service.
About LOD
For almost 20 years, we’ve transformed the way in which lawyers, consultants, and legal teams work. Today, we’re the market leader for flexible legal services businesses globally, delivering hundreds of assignments and projects with the world’s leading businesses and law firms each year.
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Winning numerous awards along the way, LOD is continually recognized for creating different and better ways of working for both lawyers and legal teams.
Now part of the Consilio Group, we have the global reach and scale needed to answer our clients’ complex demands and the support of a leading legal technology business to help us innovate and evolve with our customers.
Work at LOD
LOD has the spirit and excitement of an entrepreneurial growth business. LOD’s HQ team is at the core – they are the people that look after our lawyers and clients and work to build the LOD business. So, working in the HQ team offers you a chance to shape how things are changing in the legal industry. What you do will have a direct effect on how our lawyers and clients work with us.
Ideals at LOD
This may seem a rather lofty topic, but we see on a daily basis that giving people the chance to work differently can have a positive impact on the world. We run LOD with that in mind for our lawyers and for our clients. It’s also crucial for our employees in the HQ team – each employee has a chance to truly engage and to make a difference in what they do.
You at LOD?
Our HQ team members come from varied backgrounds, but we want them all to enjoy their work while collaborating with talented people on a shared mission. If you think you would like to be part of that, we’d love to hear from you. By joining us, you can not only be part of a high-growth business, but you can also influence the transformation in the legal sector.
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