Recruiting Leadership & Strategy
- Provide day-to-day leadership for U.S. legal recruiting and maintain continuity across campus, summer associate, lateral associate, clerkship, and partner recruiting workstreams.
- Advise hiring partners, recruiting committees, practice group leaders, and firm leadership on candidate pipelines, recruiting priorities, market developments, and process issues.
- Monitor recruiting activity, deadlines, candidate movement, committee cycles, and recurring deliverables, and ensure that the team follows through on next steps.
- Identify risks, exceptions, and time-sensitive decisions; determine what can be resolved within Recruiting and what should be elevated for leadership or cross-functional approval.
Approval Authority & Decision-Making
- Serve as the primary Recruiting-level reviewer and approver for significant candidate recommendations, recruiting communications, presentations, program materials, and process changes.
- Review candidate materials and team recommendations before candidates are advanced to hiring partners, practice groups, or recruiting committees.
- Make or coordinate Recruiting-level decisions regarding candidate progression, interviews, callbacks, decline recommendations, and exceptions, subject to applicable partner or leadership approval.
- Review and approve executive-ready recruiting communications, presentations, committee materials, candidate-facing content, and reports before distribution.
- Maintain clear documentation of material decisions, approval conditions, responsible owners, and required follow-up.
Campus Recruiting & Summer Associate Program
- Oversee U.S. law student and graduate recruiting strategy, law school relationships, candidate outreach, interview processes, offer activity, and recruiting events.
- Provide senior oversight of the New York summer associate program, including orientation, practice group rotations, assignments, evaluations, mentoring, programming, reviews, and offer-related processes.
- Review and approve interviewer training, candidate-facing communications, summer associate materials, surveys, guidebooks, presentations, and event messaging before distribution.
- Oversee the preparation of recruiting committee materials, candidate packets, reports, and decision-ready summaries.
- Represent the firm in selected law school programs, candidate webinars, recruiting presentations, and other external-facing activities.
Lateral Associate & Clerkship Recruiting
- Oversee lateral associate and post-clerkship recruiting across relevant U.S. offices and practice groups, including candidate review, interview strategy, hiring recommendations, and offer-related coordination.
- Review applicant pools, candidate submissions, and recruiting team recommendations; determine whether candidates should be presented to practice group stakeholders or declined at the Recruiting level.
- Partner with practice group leaders and hiring partners on staffing needs, candidate evaluation, interview strategy, and hiring recommendations.
- Oversee search firm relationships and confirm that required placement terms and approvals are in place before recruiting processes advance.
- Review negotiated or nonstandard search firm terms within delegated authority and route matters requiring additional review or signature to the appropriate internal approver.
- Monitor offer-related, background, conflicts, visa, onboarding, and candidate-experience issues and coordinate with the relevant internal teams.
Hiring Requests & Headcount Approvals
- Coordinate hiring-request and headcount approval processes by consolidating the business case, utilization or staffing information, candidate materials, and other supporting information.
- Provide a clear Recruiting recommendation and elevate completed requests to firm leadership for final approval.
- Track approval status, communicate decisions to the appropriate stakeholders, and ensure that recruiting activity proceeds only after required approvals are in place.
Partner Recruiting & Integration Support
- Provide senior Recruiting oversight for lateral partner matters from initial consideration through offer, partnership approval, pre-arrival planning, and integration support.
- Coordinate confidential partner recruiting processes across sponsoring partners, practice group leaders, firm leadership, Recruiting, HR, Finance, OGC, Conflicts, IT, Marketing/Business Development, and other stakeholders.
- Review and approve recruiting-related process materials, search firm arrangements, communications, and candidate-facing information.
- Maintain visibility into open decision points, dependencies, risks, and approvals, and ensure that the appropriate owners and leaders are engaged.
Team Leadership & Operational Oversight
- Direct and prioritize the work of recruiting managers, coordinators, assistants, and specialists, with clear ownership and deadlines.
- Review team work product for accuracy, consistency, judgment, and readiness before it is shared with senior stakeholders or external audiences.
- Coach team members on escalation thresholds, stakeholder management, and effective communication.
- Lead regular team check-ins, maintain coverage plans, and monitor deadlines, candidate movement, committee cycles, and recurring deliverables.
- Ensure recruiting records, applicant tracking systems, trackers, and shared materials are current and support a reliable audit trail.
Cross-Functional Coordination, Escalation & Reporting
- Coordinate with HR, Professional Development, Finance, Conflicts, OGC, IT, Marketing/Business Development, and office leadership on recruiting matters that require shared ownership.
- Ensure that sensitive issues involving compensation, visa status, conflicts, background review, hiring criteria, candidate experience, legal risk, or reputational concerns are promptly escalated to the appropriate stakeholder.
- Provide concise status updates that identify recommendations, decisions required, responsible owners, and next steps.
- Protect confidential candidate, compensation, partnership, and personnel information and exercise discretion in all communications.
