Legal Recruiter

Legal Recruiter

DRI is looking for an experienced relationship-focused recruiter to join our Legal Solutions Group. This is an opportunity for someone who already understands legal recruiting and enjoys the candidate side of search - sourcing outreach relationship building and helping legal professionals navigate the right career move.

What We Offer

• Remote Flexibility: Work remotely with a preference for professionals based in Ohio or the Midwest and aligned with Eastern Time.

• Uncapped Earning Potential: Flexible performance-driven compensation with commission upside; structure can be tailored based on experience and preferred mix.

• Established Legal Practice: Join a specialized legal recruiting team with active client relationships existing searches and a strong reputation across law firms and corporate legal departments.

• Training & Resources: Access recruiter development through Next Level Exchange DRIs established recruiting tools and resources and direct support from an experienced Legal Practice Leader.

• Room to Grow: Focus on recruiting first with the opportunity to expand into account management client development and a fuller desk as your interests and experience grow.

• Established Brand: Join a relationship-focused executive search firm with more than four decades in business and the resources of the broader Starfish Partners organization.

Legal recruiting is relationship-driven and highly proactive. Your day will include identifying legal talent making outbound calls building relationships with passive candidates learning what motivates them managing follow-up and partnering closely with the Practice Leader to move searches from kickoff through placement.

The Role

• Legal Recruiting: Identify and engage attorneys and legal professionals through outbound calling sourcing networking referrals email and targeted outreach.

• Candidate Development: Build trusted relationships with legal professionals understand their career goals and connect them with opportunities that make sense.

• Search & Project Management: Own the candidate-side execution of active searches including pipelines priorities follow-up interview coordination and search timelines.

• Market Expertise: Continue building your network and knowledge across law firms corporate legal departments and the broader legal market.

• Client-Facing Growth: Take on account management and client interaction based on your experience and interests.

Who Were Looking For

• Legal experience/knowledge required.

• Ideally 1 years of recruiting experience; agency/search experience preferred but strong in-house or law-firm recruiting backgrounds will be considered.

• Comfortable with proactive phone-driven recruiting and reaching out to passive candidates.

• Organized and consistent with the ability to manage multiple searches and follow-up without losing momentum.

• Polished professional and relationship-focused when communicating with attorneys partners legal leaders and clients.

• Motivated by performance commission upside and the opportunity to build within an established legal practice.

• Ohio or Midwest location preferred

About Direct Recruiters Inc.

Direct Recruiters Inc. is a relationship-focused executive search firm providing contingency retained search and staffing solutions across specialized industries. Since 1983 DRI has partnered with organizations throughout North America to recruit and retain high-impact talent for mission-critical positions.

Our Legal Solutions Group partners with law firms and corporate legal departments to recruit attorneys and legal professionals across private practice in-house contract and leadership searches. The team combines deep legal-market knowledge with a highly personal relationship-driven approach to search.

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