Personal Injury Full-Cycle Corporate Recruiter

The Ward Law Group, PL • Miami Lakes, FL

3d • $75,000 - $90,000 • Onsite

About The Position

The Ward Law Group, a fast-growing Plaintiff Personal Injury law firm recognized as one of the Best Places to Work, is seeking an experienced Full-Cycle Corporate Recruiter. This role is crucial in building the teams that deliver outstanding results for clients. The recruiter will partner with hiring managers, influence hiring decisions, and attract top talent in a collaborative, innovative, and high-accountability culture. The firm is headquartered in Miami Lakes, Florida, with offices in New York and Orlando, and is expanding nationally.

Requirements

• 4+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience supporting an in-house legal department, corporate legal function, law firm, or legal services organization.
• Proven experience recruiting for legal and compliance roles, including attorneys, paralegals, legal operations professionals, contracts specialists, compliance professionals, and administrative support staff.
• Experience conducting behavioral and competency-based interviews to assess technical qualifications, professional judgment, and organizational fit.
• Demonstrated success managing multiple concurrent searches and partnering with hiring managers across legal, compliance, risk, privacy, regulatory, and business functions.
• Strong ability to build relationships and influence hiring decisions while serving as a trusted advisor to legal leadership and business stakeholders.
• Experience developing and executing targeted sourcing strategies to attract highly qualified legal talent across multiple levels and practice areas.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret recruiting metrics, workforce planning data, and market trends to improve hiring outcomes and support organizational growth.
• Ability to manage the full recruitment lifecycle, including intake meetings, sourcing, screening, interviewing, offer negotiation, and onboarding coordination.
• Knowledge of employment laws, equal employment opportunity requirements, and recruiting compliance best practices.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively with candidates, legal professionals, executives, and cross-functional partners.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Experience utilizing Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS), candidate relationship management tools, and recruiting technologies.
• Strong professional writing skills, including creating job descriptions, candidate communications, interview materials, and offer documentation.
• Experience presenting recruiting updates, talent market insights, hiring strategies, and workforce planning recommendations to hiring managers and leadership teams.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Legal Studies, Psychology, or a related field.
• Experience recruiting for corporate legal departments, in-house counsel teams, compliance organizations, or regulated industries.
• Experience hiring attorneys across a variety of specialties, including commercial, employment, litigation, privacy, regulatory, contracts, intellectual property, or corporate governance.
• Experience supporting remote, hybrid, and multi-location recruiting initiatives.
• Knowledge of legal department structures, attorney career progression, legal operations functions, and corporate governance practices.
• Experience partnering with senior legal executives, including General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officers, Associate General Counsel, and legal operations leaders.

Responsibilities

• Manage the complete recruiting lifecycle for legal and operational positions.
• Conduct intake meetings with hiring managers.
• Develop sourcing strategies for priority roles.
• Screen candidates against minimum qualifications and role requirements.
• Coordinate interviews and manage candidate communications.
• Prepare offers and support onboarding transitions.
• Build and maintain talent pipelines for critical positions.
• Source candidates through job boards, LinkedIn, referrals, networking, and direct outreach.
• Develop proactive recruiting strategies for difficult-to-fill positions.
• Maintain a positive employer brand and candidate experience.
• Partner with hiring managers to understand staffing priorities.
• Provide market insights and recruiting updates.
• Recommend sourcing strategies and pipeline improvements.
• Facilitate timely interview feedback and hiring decisions.
• Maintain accurate candidate records in SmartRecruiters.
• Create and manage job postings.
• Track recruiting metrics, including time-to-fill, time-to-hire, source effectiveness, candidate conversion rates, offer acceptance rates, and pipeline health.
• Ensure compliance with company hiring procedures and employment laws.

Benefits

• Medical, dental & vision
• Hospital plans
• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
• Life Insurance (Company paid Basic Life and AD&D as well as voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
• Company paid short and long-term disability
• Health & Dependent Care Spending Accounts (HSA & DCFSA)
• Employee Assistance Program
• Tuition Assistance
• PTO
• Allegis Group Paid Family Leave
• Parental Leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level