Legal non-fee earner Recruitment

Recruit paralegals, legal secretaries, legal assistants and more for less with Headhunter.

Not many realise we are as skilled at recruiting non fee earners as we are at placing a Senior Partner.

Targeted Recruitment Solutions

Every successful law firm relies on the support of its non-fee earners. It’s how you maintain service excellence. But by their very nature, non-fee earners are a business cost – so why do many recruiters charge their regular rate to find them?

At Headhunter, we take a different approach. With 100% rebates extended to 6 weeks and a smart, streamlined approach, we make recruitment easier, faster and cheaper. For one appointment or dozens, build your team for less with us.

A contingency approach – where you only pay for candidates we place – works extremely well for non-fee earner recruitment. It means you get to enjoy risk-free recruitment. And because we have a long track record of finding exceptional candidates, it’s a risk we’re happy to take because we know we’ll be able to deliver results.

Still rigorous. Still tenacious. And we still invest heavily to ensure the latest talent-finding tools are at our disposal. So you get access to the best and broadest possible pool of legal secretaries, legal cashiers, paralegals and more.

Talk to us about adding these top-performing people to your team. At worst you will have the very best recruitment experience focused on your more junior vacancies.

Legal Assistant
Paralegal

Legal Secretary/PA
Legal Cashier

Licenced Conveyance

Client Testimonials

I would be happy to provide a testimonial for you following the successful placing of a Commercial Solicitor with us last year. Throughout the process you and Headhunters acted in a professional manner in dealing with ourselves, and the candidate. Your honesty, integrity and patience ensured that we did not end up with a "square peg in a round hole". Important to the candidate as they have remained with us and have now become an important part of the Firm. We would use your services again.

Hi James, I would like to thank you for your help in recruiting an immigration lawyer to head our new department. One of the problems in running an expanding business is finding the time for new projects. Your involvement saved us significant time and effort given that we did not have to advertise and do the initial screening of candidates. You’re listened to us and therefore only candidates that fitted our criteria were presented and I was grateful for your insight on the appropriate package to offer in order to recruit and motivate the right candidate.

Hi James, I am happy to confirm that I found working with you to be a very good experience, you were efficient in researching and producing a list of possible candidates for the position and in making initial contact with the agreed preferred individuals to ascertain interest. This was a more effective strategy than just advertising the post. You then were helpful in arranging the initial meeting and following up with the candidate and producing feedback. You were also very helpful in making us aware of the candidates’ views and requests so that we were able to negotiate and come to an agreement which was satisfactory to both sides. I would be very happy to work with you again for recruitment.

Hi Scott, Just to confirm that I have been very happy with the service we have received from Peter and yourself. The list was well prepared and you were able to reach people who were not actively applying and generate enough interest in the role and the firm for individuals to be prepare to come to an initial meeting. We were able then to progress that meeting further and we have been able to recruit someone successfully. This would not have been achieved by purely advertising the role. I will look forward to continuing to work with you on future roles.

We were looking for a senior fee earner to join the firm as succession for two long-standing partners who were heading towards retirement. Both had well established repeat clients for whom they had acted for many years and we decided therefore that a targeted approach for the suitable replacement solicitor was the way forward. James was very patient with us in our explanation of who we are, what we were looking for and the background of the position that was to be filled and did an excellent job of contacting the candidate that we had decided to approach. We previously had no experience of headhunting anyone senior in this way and James made what could have been a very awkward direct approach from us into a very professional, normal business-like approach. Having him involved throughout the process provided us with a buffer and sounding board between the two parties in the further discussion and in the end he managed to broker an agreement between us and the other party which was fantastic. I would highly recommend James as his ability and professionalism throughout were second to none.

We contacted James as we were struggling to find a conveyancer to join our practice. We had spoken with a variety or recruitment services and after 9 months without success we looked at alternatives. We found James reassuring in that he had a very down to earth approach and offered us a risk free service – if he did not find us a suitable candidate that we were happy with there would be no fee. Our new solicitor has been with us for three months and has settled in well. She was a more experienced candidate than we had initially set out to find but this has proved invaluable with the recent upsurge in conveyancing work. James made the process straightforward and offered advice and help along the way. He was not at all pushy and merely gave us the information that we needed to make appropriate decisions. He acted as a go between at the outset and helped to put arrangements in place once our decision was made. If we are in need a fee-earner in the future we would go straight to James without hesitation.

Candidate Testimonials

Thank you Peter for finding me an opportunity in the legal sector that I otherwise would not have found. Peter was extremely very fast, direct and worked hard to meet my requirements.

Peter is a confident and driven individual with excellent communication skills. He shows a genuine commitment to matching candidates with suitable roles. It was a pleasure to work with him. I would highly recommend Peter to those in search of a legal role. He has all the qualities one would hope to find in a top recruitment consultant.

Thank you in helping progress my career!! Peter was extremely professional, understanding and worked hard to meet my requirements.

I would like to say that if you have Stephan as a your agent at Headhunter then you are a very lucky person indeed. That is not to say that the rest of the team are not fabulous; Headhunter literally does what it says on the tin and that is headhunt for you, so you will be in good hands regardless. They definitely get results. Stephan is my agent though and he is brilliant; he seems to know just what you want and need from a job, and then he gets it for you. No fuss. All you have to do is go into the place of your choice and sell your product i.e. you. We all have that dream place to work at. For instance, I did not think I would be working where I am at this moment but through the expertise of Stephan and his professionalism, the job that I wanted actually landed in my lap! I cannot even believe I am working at a company that I have always wanted to work for and it fits perfectly. I am so happy I want everyone to feel this way. Stick with Stephan and that is what will happen. He got the job I am in within a matter of days of discussing it with me but of course, and naturally you have to put the work in as nothing is ever set in stone, but if you work with him and just remember you are the product then you are on to a winner. He is my star anyway.

James is just exceptional. His client care is unparalleled. He works very hard and does what he says he will. He really fights for the best deal for you and his advice is life changing. You will not need other recruiters. James alone will get the job done.

In a world where the title "recruiter" makes you as popular as the bubonic plague...Darren is the complete opposite of what you expect! He's pleasant, friendly and committed to placing you with the right company. He has recently placed me in a new role and it's perfect for me. He understood what I was looking for straight away and confidentially approached a variety of people and arranged 2 interviews with 2 companies. He then helped me through the interview process and I'm pleased to say was reassuring and helpful. I'm not a big fan of recruiters but I'd definitely recommend Darren to anyone looking for a change of role.

I've had the pleasure of getting to know Darren over the last few months after he contacted me about a role that I had been recommended for. Darren was courteous and respectful of my situation (not actually being on the look out for a new position). Darren is very personable and unintrusive whilst still taking the care and attention needed to make sure no one's time is wasted. Darren and I spoke quite a lot before the recruitment process began making time to get to know me, my circumstances and my motivations before assisting me through the recruitment process whilst always being on hand to check in or to just chat about football. Would thoroughly recommend Darren from a candidate point of view.