Our legal division places candidates into senior roles within commerce and industry on both a permanent and locum basis.

Our team has more than 40 years' combined experience of in-house legal recruitment. We have placed candidates at a senior level in blue chip companies from almost every major commercial sector; including energy, mining, transportation, engineering, financial services, commodities trading, retail, telecommunications, logistics, manufacturing, defence, media, leisure and consumer industries.

We represent a broad selection of professionals, including Solicitors, Barristers, IP Specialists, Contracts Managers and Company Secretaries.

Working for a major company offers the legal professional a different range of challenges to those he or she may face working in private practice and also brings a number of benefits not available in a law firm.

These opportunities may include:-

  • Immersion in a single organisation's business, shaping its strategic direction
  • More input on technical legal advice and less focus on billing
  • Advising on commercial issues alongside providing legal expertise
  • Working with teams from different commercial backgrounds (sales, marketing, finance)
  • Management of internal colleagues and external advisors
  • Global opportunities - international profile, work and travel
  • Potential to progress to senior management, Commercial Director or Board level
  • Generally better work/life balance
  • Broader salary packages - benefits such as significant pension contributions, private healthcare, life assurance, company car or car allowance,
  considerable bonuses, share/stock options, relocation assistance.
  • Larger companies also often have on-site sports and medical facilities, crèches and high quality subsidised restaurants.