East Coast Attorney Recruiting Specialist

Fisher & Phillips LLP•Atlanta, GA

18d•Remote

About The Position

Fisher Phillips is seeking an experienced Attorney Recruiting Specialist to manage full-cycle lateral associate and counsel recruiting for assigned East Coast and Southeast offices, with support for other offices as business needs require. As part of the Associate, Counsel, and Law Student Recruiting team, the Specialist works under the East Coast Regional Recruiting Manager and partners with regional managing partners, office leadership, practice group leaders, and hiring attorneys to assess hiring needs, develop search strategies, and provide market and pipeline guidance. The role requires independently managing multiple searches, building candidate pipelines, providing market insight, and advancing recruiting activity with limited day-to-day direction. The Specialist also supports law student recruiting and the Summer Clerk Program for assigned offices. Responsibilities include sourcing and evaluating candidates, coordinating communications and interviews, supporting offer and onboarding activities, maintaining recruiting data and reports, and contributing to process improvements and team initiatives. The position may be performed fully remotely or in a hybrid arrangement, with the option to work from a Fisher Phillips office two to three days per week. Candidates must reside on the East Coast or in the Southeast within reasonable travel distance of a Fisher Phillips office. Periodic travel may be required for recruiting events, office meetings, or law student recruiting activities. The role is full-time, with flexibility required during peak recruiting periods.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree required.
Four or more years of law firm lateral attorney recruiting experience required.
Demonstrated experience leading full-cycle recruiting and independently advancing multiple searches from intake through acceptance.
Strong direct-sourcing capability, including experience using LinkedIn Recruiter and other tools to identify, engage, and build relationships with passive candidates.
Ability to assess candidate experience and qualifications against defined hiring needs and provide clear, concise recommendations to hiring teams.
Strong relationship-management skills and ability to build credibility with attorneys, candidates, search firms, and internal stakeholders.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with sound judgment and discretion when handling confidential and sensitive information.
Exceptional organization, project management, and time-management skills, including ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
Experience working with applicant tracking systems required.
Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite.
Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively within a geographically dispersed team.
Must reside on the East Coast or in the Southeast within reasonable travel distance of a Fisher Phillips office.
Ability to travel periodically for recruiting events, office meetings, or law student recruiting activities.

Nice To Haves

Experience with viGlobal/viRecruit and iManage preferred.
Experience with recruiting analytics, reporting, and data quality strongly preferred.
Curiosity about recruiting technology and willingness to adopt tools and processes that improve sourcing, reporting, candidate experience, and recruiting effectiveness.

Responsibilities

Execute full-cycle recruiting for assigned lateral associate and of counsel searches across East Coast and Southeast offices, with support for other offices as needed.
Partner with office and practice leadership and hiring attorneys to assess hiring needs, develop search strategies, and provide regular recruiting updates.
Build and maintain candidate pipelines through direct sourcing, LinkedIn Recruiter, referrals, networking, internal leads, and approved search firms.
Source, screen, and evaluate attorney candidates against hiring needs and prepare concise candidate summaries and recommendations.
Manage candidate communications throughout recruiting, including outreach, interview coordination, follow-up, offer-stage engagement, and post-acceptance communication.
Coordinate offer preparation, negotiations, and acceptance activity with recruiting leadership and firm administration.
Manage approved search firm relationships, submissions, communications, search status, and compliance with firm recruiting policies.
Monitor pipelines, identify stalled searches or market constraints, and recommend adjustments to sourcing strategies, search criteria, or outreach.
Provide market intelligence on candidate availability, compensation expectations, competitor activity, and other developments affecting searches.
Support onboarding initiation and transitions for new attorney hires in coordination with Human Resources, Professional Development, IT, Office Administrators, and hiring attorneys.
Support law student recruiting for assigned offices, including on-campus recruiting, first-year hiring, callback interviews, recruiting events, and the Summer Clerk Program.
Coordinate law student candidate and attorney communications, interviews, offers, and follow-up as assigned.
Partner with recruiting managers and team members to provide a consistent candidate and summer clerk experience across offices.
Participate in planning and executing office-specific law student recruiting strategies based on hiring needs, market conditions, and program objectives.
Maintain 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, and prepare reports for team and leadership visibility.
Use recruiting and market data to identify opportunities to improve sourcing, candidate conversion, workflow, and recruiting outcomes.
Contribute to process improvement, technology adoption, firmwide recruiting initiatives, and special projects.
Provide guidance and workflow support to Recruiting Coordinators as appropriate and reinforce consistent recruiting practices and data-quality standards.
Process recruiting-related expenses and provide administrative coordination as needed.