Attorney Recruiting Specialist

Division: Associate, Counsel, and Law Student Recruiting Location: Hybrid or Remote; candidate must reside on the East Coast or in the Southeast within reasonable travel distance of a Fisher Phillips office Primary Market Focus: East Coast and Southeast offices Schedule: Full-time; flexibility required during peak recruiting periods Reports To: East Coast Regional Recruiting Manager

Overview

Fisher Phillips is seeking an Attorney Recruiting Specialist to handle full-cycle attorney recruiting for assigned East Coast and Southeast offices. This role is an integral part of the Associate, Counsel, and Law Student Recruiting team and, under the leadership of the East Coast Regional Recruiting Manager, will have primary responsibility for lateral associate and counsel hiring across assigned markets. The Specialist serves as a recruiting partner for assigned offices and searches, partnering with Regional Managing Partners, office leadership, practice group leaders, and other hiring attorneys to assess hiring needs, develop and execute search strategies, and provide regular market and pipeline guidance. This position is designed for an experienced recruiting professional who can independently manage multiple searches, build candidate pipelines, provide market insight, and move recruiting activity forward with sound judgment and limited day-to-day direction. The Specialist will also support law student recruiting and the Summer Clerk Program across assigned offices. Key Responsibilities - Lateral Attorney Recruiting - Execute the full-cycle recruiting process for assigned associate and of counsel searches across East Coast and Southeast offices, with support for other offices as business needs require. - Partner with Regional Managing Partners, office leadership, practice group leaders, and other hiring attorneys to understand current and anticipated hiring needs, develop search strategies, and provide regular recruiting updates. - Build and maintain robust candidate pipelines through direct sourcing, LinkedIn Recruiter, referrals, networking, internal leads, and approved search firms. - Source, screen, and evaluate attorney candidates against defined hiring needs, and prepare concise candidate summaries and recommendations for hiring teams. - Handle candidate communications throughout the recruiting lifecycle, including outreach, interview coordination, follow-up, offer-stage engagement, and post-acceptance communication. - Coordinate offer preparation, negotiations, and acceptance activity in partnership with recruiting leadership and firm administration. - Manage relationships with approved search firms, including submissions, communication, search status, and adherence to Firm recruiting policies. - Monitor recruiting pipelines, identify stalled searches or market constraints, and proactively recommend adjustments to sourcing strategy, search criteria, or outreach approach. - Provide market intelligence regarding candidate availability, compensation expectations, competitor activity, and other developments affecting assigned searches. - Support onboarding initiation and transition activities for new attorney hires in coordination with Human Resources, Professional Development, IT, Office Administrators, and hiring attorneys. - Law Student Recruiting - Support law student recruiting initiatives for assigned East Coast and Southeast offices, including on-campus recruiting, first-year hiring, callback interviews, recruiting events, and the Summer Clerk Program. - Coordinate candidate and attorney communications, interviews, offers, and follow-up activity for law student candidates as assigned. - Partner with Recruiting Managers and team members to deliver a consistent, high-quality candidate and summer clerk experience across offices. - Participate in planning and execution of office-specific law student recruiting strategies based on hiring needs, market conditions, and program objectives. - Recruiting Operations, Reporting & Team Support - Maintain complete and accurate candidate, requisition, source, and hiring information in viRecruit and other recruiting systems. - Monitor recruiting activity, pipeline status, hiring metrics, source effectiveness, and time-to-fill,