Law School Recruiting Manager

Overview

Law School Recruiting Manager

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Firm at a time of development, growth, and success. This role has an important part to play in helping the firm achieve its strategic law student talent acquisition and legal recruiting priorities.

We are seeking a talented Law School Recruiting Manager to lead our Firm's law school hiring efforts across all U.S. offices. In this role, you will shape our national recruiting strategy, strengthen relationships with law schools, and ensure that candidates experience a thoughtful and engaging process from first contact through the summer associate program. Working closely with the U.S. Hiring Chair, the Director of Legal Personnel, and local office teams, you will guide all aspects of 1L and 2L recruiting, oversee summer associate training and evaluations, and help maintain a consistent, high-quality program across the Firm.

1L & 2L Law Student Recruiting and National Summer Program Management

• Design and execute a law student hiring strategy for the Firm's U.S. offices.
• Develop and cultivate relationships with law school career services offices.
• Lead the annual summer associate program, including collaborating with the Learning & Development team to develop effective training content, manage the summer associate work allocation program and summer associate evaluation process, and oversee summer associate events.
• Manage the recruiting process for 1L and 2L hiring, including managing résumé collection and review, candidate identification, interviews, offer decisions and status tracking.
• Directly manages all aspects of the Columbus office 1L and 2L hiring and the summer program for the Columbus office.
• Develop effective website content, job postings and social media content related to the Firm's law school recruitment activity. Support Firm initiatives on social media. Take the lead in sourcing, preparing, and distributing information by working in coordination with the Firm's social media teams.

Legal Recruiting

• As able, assist legal recruiting by conducting searches for associates, policy advisors, policy specialists, patent professionals and paralegals or researching profiles on behalf of the talent acquisition team.
• May assist in recruiting for lawyer and staff roles in the Columbus office.

• We require a bachelor's degree or equivalent, a minimum of three (3) years of law school recruiting experience demonstrating the skills required to manage a national program as well as prior legal recruiting experience. Experience in event management is required.

• Demonstrate the ability to manage all aspects of high-volume legal recruiting programs.
• Provide exceptional customer service to internal and external clients.
• Be a team player committed to superior standards of professionalism and productivity.
• Possess excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Work well under pressure.
• Exercise discretion when handling confidential information.
• Be detail-oriented with the ability to prioritize and meet deadlines.
• Possess strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Be proactive, flexible, and willing to adjust to changing priorities.
• Be available and willing to travel, attend events and to work additional hours as needed.
• Have proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint.

Squire Patton Boggs offers comprehensive benefits, including health, dental, life, and 401(k).

Squire Patton Boggs is one of the world's strongest integrated law firms, committed to providing insight at the point where law, business, and government meet. We deliver commercially focused business solutions by combining our legal, lobbying, and political capabilities and invaluable connections on the ground to a diverse mix of clients, from long-established leading corporations to emerging businesses, start-up visionaries and sovereign nations.

With over 1,500 lawyers spanning more than 40 offices across four continents we provide unrivalled access to expertise.

Our global HR and Lawyer Personnel teams consist of our core generalist HR team (responsible for our lawyer, policy advisor, support staff and secretarial staff populations), Learning & Development, Emerging Talent, Projects, Legal Recruiting, HRIS, Payroll and Rewards & Benefits. We work closely and collaboratively with other people functions, including Legal Personnel and the Office of Workplace Culture & Development.

Squire Patton Boggs is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion or creed, sex, national origin, citizenship status, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, or any other condition protected by applicable law. This non-discrimination policy applies to all aspects of employment.