Legal Recruitment and Personnel Manager

Overview

Wilmer Hale is a leading, full-service international law firm with 1,000 lawyers located throughout 12 offices in the United States, and Europe. Our lawyers work at the intersection of government, technology and business, and we remain committed to our guiding principles of providing quality, excellent legal and client services; developing diversity among our lawyers and staff and cultivating an environment that promotes an ambitious spirit, collaboration and collegiality by drawing on the extraordinary talents and dynamic experience of our lawyers.

Our goal is to reflect the diversity of our clients and the communities in which we practice.

The Legal Personnel and Recruitment Manager is responsible for all personnel-related programs and processes for attorneys in the Palo Alto and San Francisco offices. They build and manage relationships with lawyers to ensure successful programs and projects for the office. The Legal Personnel and Recruiting Manager is also responsible for all summer associate, entry level associate and post-judicial clerk hiring and will support local lateral hiring as needed.

The Manager will also oversee and execute law school and law student outreach for our Palo Alto and San Francisco summer programs. They will also manage the Palo Alto and San Francisco Legal Personnel Department and oversee all administrative functions of the department.

The Legal Personnel and Recruitment Manager will work collaboratively with the broader Legal Personnel and Development Department, including the Director of Legal Personnel and Development and the Director of Legal Recruiting to achieve the Firm s talent management goals and objectives.

Legal Personnel

• Collaborates directly with firm management in the implementation of lawyer evaluation, retention, compensation and promotion programs and processes in the Palo Alto and San Franscisco offices and ensures excellent delivery of services through the Career Advancement Program.
• Manages the semi-annual Associate, Senior Associate and Counsel review process. Semi-annual process includes working with Partners to review the collected feedback for lawyers from their respective practices, develop and facilitate Partner and Associate summary messages and delivery meetings, and follow-up with lawyers requiring coaching, mentoring, or training.
• Serves as the main point of contact in the Palo Alto and San Francisco offices for attorney onboarding, integration, promotion, transfers, offboarding and outplacement programs and efforts. Collaborates with department and office leadership regarding lawyer headcount in the Palo Alto and San Francisco offices.
• Responsible for counseling and managing all lawyer leaves and part-time arrangements.
• Oversees local team support of various committees including the Women s Leadership Initiative, Parent s Group and the Associates Committee Task Force (ACTF). Will participate in meetings with lawyers and contribute to achieving the committee s goals and objectives.
• Handles employee relations issues, serving as a resource and providing counsel, when appropriate, to all attorneys on personnel issues, leaves, career questions and employee relations matters.

• In collaboration with the Director, Legal Recruitment, successfully designs, manages, and evaluates all aspects of the firm s Summer Associate Program including, pre-arrival processes and communications, orientation, mentoring program with partners and associates, social and community service events, diversity events and initiatives, educational and special firm programming.
• In conjunction with Hiring Partners, Summer Program Co-Chairs, and Practice Management, generates interest and solicits substantive summer associate work assignments and observational opportunities from the firm s practice areas and pro bono programs.
• In conjunction with Hiring Partners and Director, Legal Recruitment, manages the evaluation and offer process for summer associates.

• In collaboration with the Director, Legal Recruitment and Hiring Partners, effectively and efficiently manages the…