Are you ready to leave the practice of law for a challenging opportunity at a fast growing, globally ranked company that enables you to continue to work with your peers and utilize the skills, attention to detail, responsiveness, and legal industry expertise you have spent many years building? Are you energized by fast-paced roles that enable you to work on multiple matters every day, quickly reprioritize based on changing circumstances, and work both independently and with multiple team members as part of a seamless team? Do you prefer entrepreneurial roles where your success is based on results not hours? Do you love closing deals and crafting solutions where everyone wins? Do you enjoy spending a lot of time every day speaking with attorneys? Are you highly perceptive, naturally curious, and a great listener? Have you practiced law as an in-house counsel and/or as an associate, counsel or partner in a large firm or boutique law firm that serves legal departments? Would you like to become a person who your peers rely on for career guidance and who contact you when they are interested in a new role? Are you highly discreet, diligent, and trustworthy – the type of person in whom others confide because they know they can trust you to preserve their confidences? If so, this may be a great opportunity you.

Latitude is seeking a Director of Legal Recruiting & Placement for our Austin office. This role involves recruiting, vetting, and placing highly successful lawyers with leading in-house legal departments and law firms in Austin, in Texas, and across the country. While this role involves some traditional permanent placement work, such as recruiting for general counsel positions and other permanent in-house and law roles, most of the role involves finding, recruiting, vetting, and directly hiring experienced in-house counsel and law firm attorneys as Latitude W2 employees – Latitude Attorneys – and then placing those attorneys on assignment as interim counsel with Latitude’s legal department and law firm clients nationwide. In addition to conducting in-depth interviews with numerous attorney candidates and their references each week to select and build your bench of Latitude Attorneys, a significant part of this role involves working closely with Latitude Attorneys to discuss potential assignments with them to determine interest and fit, to gathering additional detailed information needed to prepare tailored client proposals, briefing them before and after client interviews, and staying in routine contact with them when they are on assignment with a client to ensure they are thriving. This role also involves routinely drafting candidate proposals to be sent to clients.

Proximity to Austin is preferred but not a dealbreaker. This job can be fully remote but will require occasional in-person meetings and travel, including corporate training and conferences out of state (typically in Nashville). If you prefer to work in-person or hybrid in Austin, that is also an option but not required. The work schedule is fairly flexible—you’ll have the freedom to work how and when that serves you and our clients best. Plus, you’ll be using your law degree in an entrepreneurial role, will be helping place outstanding attorneys in great roles that energize them, and will be providing much needed support to everyone in the law firms and legal departments that Latitude serves. On top of that, you’ll also grow with the business—as Latitude’s Austin business continues to increase, your career opportunities and income will as well.

While this is a flexible, freeing opportunity which can accommodate work from home, it is also a demanding, full-time professional role that requires a high degree of responsiveness, attention to detail, individual initiative and the ability to multi-task. If working in a fast-paced role where you often must work under tight timelines and quickly adapt to changing client and team priorities is energizing to you, then this role may be a great fit. If you have been successful in a corporate law firm or legal department, you will likely find the high level of responsiveness required (including after hours and at times on weekends) are already routine for you.

If this sounds appealing to you, then we hope you apply!

Primary Responsibilities:

Source, recruit and screen experienced attorney candidates for in-house counsel and law firm contract engagements and permanent positions with leading companies and corporate law firms in Austin, Texas and remote roles across the country.
Maintain ongoing communication with Latitude Attorneys throughout their placements to ensure their current roles are progressing smoothly, facilitate seamless transitions between assignments, and cultivate relationships that contribute positively to their professional growth.
Thoroughly interview promising candidates to ascertain their career goals and objectives.
Conduct in-depth, extensive reference interviews and other vetting.
Effectively present (both orally and in writing) proposed candidates to in-house counsel and law firm partner clients.
Thoughtfully assess and match employers and attorneys, based on specific variables to each.
Onboard and manage Latitude Attorneys and other legal professionals on engagement.
Participate in periodic Latitude events for prospective and existing Latitude attorneys and clients (e.g. CLEs, social events, etc.).
Remain active in your local legal community by participating in legal or other professional associations.
Work as part of a cohesive, collaborative, supportive, fun and sometimes funny team.

Requirements

Minimum of four years of successful experience as a practicing attorney, preferably in a mid-to-large corporate law firm and/or in a corporate legal department.
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
Meticulous
Strong writing skills
Complete integrity
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.
A reputation for being highly discreet and trustworthy; a person who others can share confidential info knowing you will keep it completely confidential forever.
Impeccable professional reputation
Background check
Stellar references

Position Details

This is a full-time position that offers a flexible, work-from-home schedule, but it is also time intensive and includes some in-person meetings and participation in social/professional activities after traditional business hours (e.g. bar association events, meetings in clients’ offices, breakfasts/coffees/lunches/dinners with candidates or other team members, etc.).
Given the client-service nature of our business, we are expected to respond to our clients in a timely manner. All of us are expected to communicate with team members, candidates, clients or others as needed, including responding to emails during evenings and on weekends as needed.
We work hard, act professionally, laugh a lot, help each other, take vacations, and change the lives of our clients (and the legal profession as a whole) one placement at a time.
Compensation is comprised of a true base salary (not commission or draw) plus bonus; full benefits (e.g., group medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, life, AD&D, 401k, CLE and professional fees stipend, etc.). The anticipated base salary range for this role is $100,000-$110,000, with the potential for a bonus of 25 percent or more.

Confidentiality
Applications will be kept in strict confidence. Candidates selected for further consideration will be contacted.
Only qualified applicants should apply.

About Latitude
Latitude is a full-service flexible legal talent company serving corporate legal departments and law firms nationwide. From Fortune Global 100 companies to start-ups and Global 50 law firms to boutiques, clients turn to us for top-tier attorneys and other legal professionals.

Latitude specializes in providing highly skilled former in-house counsel and Big Law attorneys for flexible contract engagements and permanent positions in dozens of practice areas, including commercial contracting, data privacy, M&A, employment, litigation, and more.

Founded in 2013, Latitude is globally ranked by Chambers and is recognized by the readers of The National Law Journal as the #1 Attorney Staffing Provider and #1 Legal Recruiter in the United States.

Latitude Contract Engagements & Secondments
Outstanding attorneys and other legal professionals who are seeking contract assignments or consulting/secondment roles choose to work with Latitude because of our competitive compensation and benefits, sophisticated and engaging work, a chance to work with great clients and peers, and a refreshing blend of freedom with self-designed boundaries. Our own experience as practicing attorneys and our client relationships enable us to effectively tailor our candidate proposals to the specific practice strengths and interpersonal attributes that matter most to our clients and to match our candidates with the opportunities that will be most fulfilling to them.

Our Specialty: Peer-Level Contract Attorneys. Latitude Attorneys have the level of skill, experience, and judgment as would be expected of a permanent member of our client’s corporate legal department or law firm and the versatility to step into challenging environments and hit the ground running. Latitude Attorneys serve on a full- or part-time contract basis, and work remotely or on-site at the client office.

FAQ:
Q: What other legal jobs do you have?
A: If you’re interested in working with Latitude but do not think this particular legal job is the right one for you, we encourage you to explore our other open opportunities or fill out a General Application by visiting us at https://latitudelegal.com/jobs/

Q: Should I apply for this specific position if I have previously applied for another Latitude position?
A: Yes, it is better to apply to each Latitude job for which you are qualified and interested so that we immediately know of your interest in that specific role. This also enables you to share additional information about your qualifications or interest specific to each role. If you do not meet all of the qualifications for a position but think you would still be highly effective in the role, it can be helpful to include a brief explanation in your application.

Q: How can I reduce the risk of missing Latitude’s email inviting me to interview for this position?
A: Please safe-list Latitude’s URL domain name (latitudelegal.com) in your spam filter so that an email from one of our recruiters does not get caught in your spam folder. Our recruiters will never contact you by email from a URL other than latitudelegal.com

Q: My current legal team needs help. How can I see some Latitude candidates for my legal team?
A: The fastest way is to submit the very short form on our website contact page. A member of our client services team will be back in touch with you very fast to learn more about your need so we can provide you with on point candidates to consider.

For more information about Latitude, please visit us at https://latitudelegal.com.

Thank you for your interest in Latitude!
Latitude is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

LATTX
6418
#LI-TK1

Director of Recruiting & Placement (Attorney / In-House Counsel)

Ready to get started?