Legal Recruiting Advisor

The Team

Our Human Resources department includes specialized teams in Recruitment, Learning and Development, and HR Operations. Team members are based across North America and work collaboratively as one HR team to deliver comprehensive support to both our fee-earner and business services groups, with a particular focus on team members in our Kansas City office.

The Role

The Recruitment Advisor will work closely with the North America Recruitment team to manage and support legal recruitment across all U.S. and Canadian offices.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with HR Business Partners and Hiring Managers to recruit lateral attorneys and paralegals across North America, liaising with the Recruitment Manager on recruitment strategies and ensuring all hiring practices align with fair and accessible hiring policies.
• Help identify high-caliber talent through direct sourcing, market mapping, and research using best-practice recruitment methods.
• Build and maintain a strong pipeline of future talent through proactive market engagement and networking.
• Review and screen resumes, providing high-quality, detailed shortlists and demonstrating an understanding of a strong legal background.
• Advise hiring managers on recruitment needs, providing feedback and escalating issues to the Head of Recruitment (North America) as needed.
• Stay current on legal market trends and compensation data across the region.
• Manage recruitment procedures, including securing proper approvals and posting on the firm’s website, LinkedIn, and other platforms.
• Regularly review job boards and social media platforms to identify new sourcing opportunities.
• Maintain accurate and current information for reporting purposes in the firm’s in-house agency tracker.
• Provide support and coverage for colleagues as needed.
• Contribute proactively to ad hoc recruiting projects and process improvements.
• Utilize the firm’s Workday system for all recruitment activities, ensuring data accuracy, candidate tracking, requisition management, and compliance with internal policies.

Essential Skills & Experience

• At least two years of recruitment experience, ideally within the legal or professional services industry.
• A bachelor’s degree from an accredited university.
• Strong ability to advise and influence key stakeholders.
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Proactive and enthusiastic approach with a client-service mindset.
• Experience using an applicant tracking system (ATS).
• Experience direct sourcing via LinkedIn.
• Highly organized and able to manage multiple priorities effectively.
• Ability to meet deadlines and communicate promptly when timelines shift.
• Exceptional attention to detail and proofreading accuracy.
• Ownership and accountability for work, with a commitment to supporting both immediate tasks and broader project goals.
• Collaborative team player with a willingness to support colleagues across Recruitment and HR.
• Self-motivated, resilient, and proactive, with strong prioritization skills in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong organizational, analytical, and administrative skills, including managing and maintaining recruitment data for reporting purposes.

Our Values

Our values guide the decisions we make, unite our efforts, and strengthen our service delivery—to our clients and each other. We:

• Work as One: We are a globally connected team that acts with a firm-first mindset to achieve collective success.
• Excel with Clients: We aim high, challenge ourselves, and deliver excellence—always keeping our clients at the center of what we do.
• Celebrate Difference: We help one another succeed and believe that our differences drive greater achievement.
• Act Boldly: We pursue new opportunities, take initiative, and learn as we go—knowing that curiosity fuels growth.

Business Services Competencies

Clyde & Co is committed to providing meaningful personal and professional development opportunities to help our people perform effectively in their roles and achieve their career goals.

Our competency framework supports all aspects of Business Services career development and focuses on the following key areas:

• Technical Excellence
• People and Team
• Client/Stakeholder Relationships
• Service Delivery and Commercial Awareness
• Personal Effectiveness

This job description reflects the role as it is currently defined. However, the firm reserves the right to make reasonable adjustments to the duties and responsibilities in line with the changing needs of the business.

The Firm

When you work at Clyde & Co, you join a team of 500 partners, 2,400 lawyers, 3,200 legal professionals and 5,500 people in nearly 70 offices and associated offices worldwide. Our values are the principles that guide the decisions we make, unite us in our endeavours and strengthen our delivery, for both our clients and our firm. We work as one, excel with clients, celebrate difference and act boldly. We are committed to operating in a responsible way by progressing towards a diverse and inclusive workforce that reflects the communities and clients it serves. We are devoted to providing an environment in which everyone can realise their potential, using its legal and professional skills to support its communities. We do this through pro bono work, volunteering and charitable partnerships, and minimising the impact it has on the environment, including through our commitment to the SBTi Net-Zero standard and the setting of ambitious emissions reduction targets.

Our Commitment

Clyde & Co is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. Our values encourage us to support fairness, celebrate diversity and prohibit all forms of discrimination in the workplace to allow everyone to excel at work. Therefore, we welcome and encourage all applications from suitably qualified individuals, regardless of background or identity. Learn more about our interview process.

A Note on Privacy

Please take a moment to read our privacy notice. This describes what personal information Clyde & Co (we) may hold about you, what it’s used for, how it’s obtained, your rights and how to contact us as a data subject.

If you are submitting a candidate as a Recruitment Agency Partner, it is an essential requirement and your responsibility to ensure that candidates applying to Clyde & Co are aware of this privacy notice.

This is the job description as constituted at present; however, Clyde & Co reserves the right to reasonably amend it in accordance with the changing needs of the business.

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About us

We’re a global law firm working with businesses at the heart of global trade and commerce. But we’re so much more than that. Our collective drive, our pursuit of excellence and our ambition to do our best for our clients, and each other has fuelled our growth for over 90 years. Find out more about our firm.

Working with us

It’s an exciting time to work with us. With challenging cases, impactful client projects, growing teams and new offices, you’ll work in a fast-paced environment with rewarding outcomes. Collectively, we strive towards our shared goal of consistently delivering exceptional outcomes and bringing the best out in each other. Explore where you could work with us.

Early career opportunities

Our early careers programmes differ from any other law firm, because of our rich learning experience coupled with our opportunities to work directly with clients. In return, we ask you to bring your ambition and collaborative mind to support the firm’s continued success and growth. Apply to our early career opportunities

Where we work

With over 65 offices in 26 countries, wherever you’re based, you’ll be empowered to accelerate your career doing interesting, stimulating work, achieving your potential and delivering exceptional outcomes. Discover where we are based.

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