Job Summary:
The Director, Attorney Recruiting has the responsibility for a range of attorney recruiting initiatives related to all lateral and entry level recruiting and the summer associate program. This professional interacts with all offices and various committees with oversight for these areas of responsibilities.

Job Responsibilities:
• Actively liaises with practice group leaders and recruiting partner to identify staffing needs, and new and cost effective methods of conducting recruiting searches.
• Directs the coordination of the summer associate program including identification of needs, recruitment and onboarding, work allocation, training, mentoring, social events, evaluations and exit interviews.
• Oversees the administration of the fall recruiting program including reviewing and recommending target schools, facilitating the decision making process, and preparing projections and success reports for firm leadership as well as for various firm committees.
• Establishes and maintains strong working relationships with firm departments and committees, external professional associations and law schools.
• Ensures participation in key surveys which have a direct effect on summer and fall recruiting.
• Develops and manages a budget and oversees the allocation of funds for recruiting programs.
• Hires, trains, and supervises administrative staff responsible for attorney recruiting functions.
• Collaborates with Professional Development and Diversity & Inclusion teams to maximize recruiting effectiveness.
• In conjunction with Marketing, utilizes the alumni database and social media outlets as a tool in connecting with and recruiting high quality attorneys.
• Works with Diversity Council to implement firm wide diversity initiatives, including the recruitment and retaining of diverse attorneys.
• Works with other directors and managers to plan for potential business disruption, ensure critical data is backed up properly and create business continuity solutions by testing and implementing various recovery plans enabling the firm to resume normal operations as soon as possible following a disaster.
• Protects firm and client information by ensuring compliance with the firm’s information security policies, safeguarding firm assets from unauthorized access, disclosure, modification, destruction or interference and reporting security events or potential events or other security risks to management.