Contract Attorney Recruiting Coordinator

The Contract Attorney Recruiting Coordinator is a critical, execution-focused role supporting a high-volume, fast-paced attorney recruiting function. This position sits at the center of student, lateral associate, and programmatic recruiting activity and is ideal for someone who thrives under pressure, manages competing priorities with confidence, and enjoys being deeply involved in time-sensitive, detail-orientated work. The Coordinator plays a key role in ensuring a seamless candidate experience while enabling the recruiting team to meet aggressive hiring demands in a high-expectations professional services environment.

This position requires exceptional organization, responsiveness, and judgment. The successful candidate will be comfortable working in an environment characterized by frequent deadlines, shifting priorities, and significant volume across interview scheduling, candidate communications, and recruiting operations.

Core Responsibilities:

High-Volume Interview Coordination & Candidate Management

• Coordinate a large volume of attorney interviews across multiple offices and time zones, including scheduling, calendar management, room reservations, virtual interview logistics, and technology support.
• Serve as a primary point of contact for candidates, ensuring timely, professional, and high-touch communication throughout all stages of the recruiting process.
• Prepare and distribute interview materials, agendas, and candidate information; collect and track interviewer feedback under tight turnaround times.
• Manage rapid rescheduling requests and last-minute changes with discretion, accuracy, efficiency, and composure.

Student Recruitment & Summer Associate Program Support

• Provide intensive administrative and logistical support for virtual and on-campus interviews (OCI), resume collections, callback interviews, and law school engagement activities.
• Support planning and execution of the summer associate program, including orientation, events, evaluations, and participation tracking.
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date records for student candidates and summer associates, ensuring data integrity despite high transaction volume.
• Assist with program evaluations, surveys, and post-season reporting.

Lateral Associate Recruiting Support

• Support lateral associate recruiting by coordinating interviews, managing candidate workflows, and assisting with offer and onboarding logistics.
• Track candidate status, interview outcomes, and offer activity in recruiting systems and trackers.
• Ensure consistent process execution during periods of heavy lateral hiring demand.

Recruiting Operations, Data & Process Management

• Maintain recruiting databases, trackers, templates, and documentation to support efficient, repeatable processes at scale.
• Prepare regular and ad hoc reports related to interview volume, candidate pipelines, offers, and program metrics.
• Support data collection and basic analysis to identify trends, bottlenecks, and opportunities for operational improvement.
• Assist with recruiting-related invoicing, expense tracking, and vendor coordination.

Team & Stakeholder Support

• Provide day-to-day administrative and operational support to the attorney recruiting team, including meeting coordination and internal communications.
• Partner closely with recruiters, hiring partners, and firm leadership to support demanding timelines and high service expectations.
• Handle highly confidential information with professionalism, discretion, and sound judgment.

Qualifications & Capabilities

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• 3–5+ years of experience in attorney recruiting, legal recruiting coordination, or high-volume professional services support strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to manage heavy workloads, frequent deadlines, and competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Exceptionally organized and detail-oriented, with a proven ability to maintain accuracy under pressure.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; polished, responsive, and professional candidate-facing presence.
• Comfort working with recruiting data, reports, and spreadsheets to support operational and analytical needs.
• High degree of discretion and ability to handle sensitive and confidential information appropriately.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office (Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint) and applicant tracking systems.

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP is committed to promoting diversity and inclusion within our Firm and in the larger legal profession. We believe that diverse skills, knowledge and viewpoints make us a stronger firm. Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP maintains a policy of affording all employees and applicants equal employment opportunities without regard to actual or perceived race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender (including gender identity, gender expression or being transgender), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital or familial status, domestic violence victim status, ancestry, amnesty, citizenship status, ethnicity, military and veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Unlawful discrimination, harassment and retaliation will not be tolerated in any of the Firm’s offices or any other work-related setting. Qualified individuals with a disability may request a reasonable accommodation in order to apply for a position or to enable them to perform the essential functions of a position for which they are otherwise qualified. EEO.