Legal Recruiting Coordinator

Legal Recruiting Coordinator

New York, NY

Summary

The role will provide general administrative assistance and support to the Legal Recruiting department, for all aspects of attorney recruitment, including summer and fall law clerk program administration.

Responsibilities

• Assist with the summer law clerk and fall recruitment programs, including assigned duties related to on-campus recruiting.
• Provide administrative support, including, creating/maintaining files, preparing correspondence, and coordinating conflicts and background checks for prospective hires.
• Facilitate job fair and on-campus interview registration and coordinate end-of-year feedback.
• Coordinate candidate interviews, assist in the preparation of on-campus interview materials, and coordinate post-offer follow up efforts.
• Schedule and organize reviews of entry-level candidate’s summer law clerks for hiring committee meetings
• Assist in planning and coordinating summer law clerk events and internal presentations and trainings, including summer law clerk orientation.
• Coordinate summer law clerk assignments, track and compile evaluations, and act as liaison between summer assignment associates and summer law clerks to determine staffing needs.
• Respond to and direct candidate inquiries.
• Coordinate gift and give-away orders for summer law clerk program, entry-level and lateral candidate arrivals and for other recruiting functions.
• Maintain and update the Firm’s recruiting micro site to ensure content is current.
• Provide support during diversity-related, law student, summer program, and attorney social events including receiving responses, creating/distributing nametags, following up with invitees.
• Assist in coordinating on-campus interviews and events for LLM recruitment, including liaising with other global CC offices.
• Perform other related duties as assigned pertaining to on-campus recruitment, the summer law clerk program and lateral hiring.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree strongly preferred
• Minimum 2-3 years of on-campus recruitment experience in professional services required. Legal recruiting experience strongly preferred.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment
• Must be extremely detail-oriented and possess strong organizational skills
• Exceptional client service skills
• Strong computer skills with proficiency in Microsoft Word and Excel
• Flexibility to adjust work schedule as needed
• Must be independently legally authorized to work in the United States.