Director of Legal Recruiting & Placement

No more billable time. Leverage your legal experience without practicing law. Help other attorneys meet their professional and personal goals. Experience meaningful work as part of a highly driven, supportive, collaborative and FUN team. This is a Nashville-based position with work-from-home flexibility.

This is a rare opportunity to leverage your experience practicing law and knowledge of the legal industry without billing time in six-minute increments. Help experienced attorneys find satisfying, engaging and often life-changing positions – without pulling any more all-nighters. We are a team of high-performing, former lawyers who have chosen to use our legal know-how for good by supporting the whole-person success and wellness of our peers in the legal industry.

If you are a lawyer with a positive, can-do attitude looking for an exit ramp off the traditional law firm or in-house career path, we’d like to meet you.

Applicants must communicate well (in person and in writing) and have a genuine curiosity for what makes others tick and thrive. If you are looking to make the switch over to the business side of legal services and want a job full of meaning and happy clients, then this could be your dream job.

• Source, recruit and screen experienced attorney and paralegal candidates for in-house counsel and law firm contract engagements and permanent positions with leading companies and corporate law firms.
• Interview promising candidates to ascertain their career goals and objectives.
• Communicate with references to ascertain candidates’ strengths and weaknesses and better understand the roles and environments in which candidates will likely thrive.
• Effectively present (both orally and in writing) recommended candidates to in-house counsel and law firm partner clients.
• Manage and support Latitude attorneys and clients during the full course of an engagement (from initial interview through the completion of a successful engagement . . and into the next engagement).
• Develop and nurture a candidate referral network to enable a consistent stream of qualified candidates in and outside of the Nashville area (including through the use of networking, associations, CLE, training, marketing, social media, on-line tools, etc.)
• Coordinate events, in partnership with Latitude’s marketing team, for prospective and existing Latitude candidates (e.g. CLEs, social events, etc.).
• Fully engage with and utilize the company’s electronic Client Management System (CMS) and other technology tools.
• Work as part of an energetic, service-oriented, highly responsive, communicative, cohesive, collaborative, supportive, fun . . and sometimes funny . . team.

• Minimum of four years of successful experience as a practicing attorney, preferably in a boutique or mid-to-large corporate law firm or in-house setting.
• Ability to quickly build rapport with experienced lawyer candidates and clients.
• Ability to effectively use social media, online recruiting tools and in-person networking to source new candidates and market open positions.
• Strong organizational and time-management skills and ability to perform effectively without close supervision or micro-management.
• Service-minded approach and strong client-service skills, including the ability to communicate (both orally and in writing) at a high level with sophisticated law firm and corporate legal department attorneys.
• Highly dedicated, dependable, detail-oriented, capable of using document management and database management software programs, highly discreet, high-integrity and a team player with a positive, can-do attitude.
• Ability to identify priorities and pivot or adjust focus/work as appropriate.
• Willingness to be part of a collaborative and supportive team that helps one another out and plays nice.
• Proficiency in tech-based platforms (i.e. online research and networking platforms/tools, CMS, Linked In, Microsoft Office products such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint, etc.).
• Stellar references.

• Type of Role:
  Permanent – Direct Latitude…