Legal Recruiter

Legal Recruiter

DRI is looking for an experienced, relationship-focused recruiter to join our Legal Solutions Group. This is an opportunity for someone who already understands legal recruiting and enjoys the candidate side of search - sourcing, outreach, relationship building, and helping legal professionals navigate the right career move.

What We Offer

• Remote Flexibility: Work remotely, with a preference for professionals based in Ohio or the Midwest and aligned with Eastern Time.
• Uncapped Earning Potential: Flexible, performance-driven compensation with commission upside; structure can be tailored based on experience and preferred mix.
• Established Legal Practice: Join a specialized legal recruiting team with active client relationships, existing searches, and a strong reputation across law firms and corporate legal departments.
• Training & Resources: Access recruiter development through Next Level Exchange, DRI's established recruiting tools and resources, and direct support from an experienced Legal Practice Leader.
• Room to Grow: Focus on recruiting first, with the opportunity to expand into account management, client development, and a fuller desk as your interests and experience grow.
• Established Brand: Join a relationship-focused executive search firm with more than four decades in business and the resources of the broader Starfish Partners organization.

Legal recruiting is relationship-driven and highly proactive. Your day will include identifying legal talent, making outbound calls, building relationships with passive candidates, learning what motivates them, managing follow-up, and partnering closely with the Practice Leader to move searches from kickoff through placement.

The Role

• Legal Recruiting: Identify and engage attorneys and legal professionals through outbound calling, sourcing, networking, referrals, email, and targeted outreach.
• Candidate Development: Build trusted relationships with legal professionals, understand their career goals, and connect them with opportunities that make sense.
• Search & Project Management: Own the candidate-side execution of active searches, including pipelines, priorities, follow-up, interview coordination, and search timelines.
• Market Expertise: Continue building your network and knowledge across law firms, corporate legal departments, and the broader legal market.
• Client-Facing Growth: Take on account management and client interaction based on your experience and interests.

Who We're Looking For

• Legal experience/knowledge required.
• Ideally 1+ years of recruiting experience; agency/search experience preferred, but strong in-house or law-firm recruiting backgrounds will be considered.
• Comfortable with proactive, phone-driven recruiting and reaching out to passive candidates.
• Organized and consistent, with the ability to manage multiple searches and follow-up without losing momentum.
• Polished, professional, and relationship-focused when communicating with attorneys, partners, legal leaders, and clients.
• Motivated by performance, commission upside, and the opportunity to build within an established legal practice.
• Ohio or Midwest location preferred

About Direct Recruiters, Inc.

Direct Recruiters, Inc. is a relationship-focused executive search firm providing contingency, retained search, and staffing solutions across specialized industries. Since 1983, DRI has partnered with organizations throughout North America to recruit and retain high-impact talent for mission-critical positions.

Our Legal Solutions Group partners with law firms and corporate legal departments to recruit attorneys and legal professionals across private practice, in-house, contract, and leadership searches. The team combines deep legal-market knowledge with a highly personal, relationship-driven approach to search.

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