Location: Downtown Los Angeles, CA
Salary: $90,000–$130,000
Schedule: Hybrid / Remote Flexibility
A well-established national law firm is looking for an experienced Legal Recruiting Manager to join its Talent Team in Los Angeles.
This is a highly visible role for someone who understands the legal recruiting landscape and enjoys building relationships, leading a team, and managing searches from initial strategy through offer and onboarding.
You’ll partner closely with firm leadership, practice leaders, and recruiting stakeholders while overseeing both lateral attorney and law school recruiting initiatives.
What You’ll DoManage the full recruiting lifecycle for attorneys, including lateral associates and summer associates
Partner with senior leadership and practice area leaders to identify and attract top legal talent
Lead attorney searches across California offices
Review and screen candidates and assess qualifications and overall fit
Coordinate interviews, due diligence, approvals, offers, and onboarding
Build and maintain relationships with external search firms and legal recruiters
Lead law school recruiting initiatives, including OCI, law school events, callback interviews, recruiting committee meetings, and offers
Manage and develop recruiting team members
Prepare recruiting reports, hiring metrics, and status updates for leadership
Maintain candidate data and recruiting workflows
Manage the annual legal recruiting budget
Serve as a trusted recruiting partner to office and firm leadership
Participate in firmwide recruiting initiatives and special projects
Identify opportunities to improve recruiting processes, efficiencies, and the overall candidate experience
Bachelor’s degree
3+ years of management-level recruiting experience within a law firm
Strong understanding of the legal industry, recruiting market, and current hiring trends
Prior supervisory or team leadership experience strongly preferred
Experience managing attorney recruiting processes from search through hire
Strong relationship-building skills with the ability to partner effectively with senior stakeholders
Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills
Strong judgment and ability to independently evaluate candidates
Highly organized with the ability to manage multiple priorities and searches simultaneously
Candidate-focused approach with an emphasis on communication and engagement
Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, deadline-driven professional environment
This is more than an individual contributor recruiting position. You’ll have the opportunity to lead a team, influence recruiting strategy, partner directly with firm leadership, and contribute to broader firmwide talent initiatives.
The organization has a national presence with 160+ attorneys across eight offices, providing exposure to recruiting initiatives across multiple markets.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree
- 3+ years of management-level recruiting experience within a law firm
- Strong understanding of the legal industry, recruiting market, and current hiring trends
- Prior supervisory or team leadership experience
- Experience managing attorney recruiting processes from search through hire
- Strong relationship-building skills with senior stakeholders
- Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills
- Strong judgment and ability to independently evaluate candidates
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and searches simultaneously
- Candidate-focused approach emphasizing communication and engagement
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, deadline-driven professional environment
What We Do
GHJ is an accounting and advisory firm that specializes in nonprofit, food and beverage, entertainment and media and health and wellness companies. Previous recipient of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce Employee Champion For Life Work Harmony Award and named a “Best Places to Work” by the Los Angeles Business Journal eight times since 2008, GHJ is passionate about helping clients and its people #BeMore by focusing on building thriving businesses and creating a better future. GHJ works as a business advocate for its clients — providing personalized service and building long-term relationships to help position our clients for growth. Through its affiliation with HLB International, a global network of independent professional accounting firms and business advisers, GHJ is able to partner with other top firms across major cities throughout the U.S. and the world. GHJ’s audit, tax and advisory teams leverage the HLB network to better serve its clients and give clients access to member firms in over 158 countries across the globe and over 775 offices worldwide. Also ranked as a top-20 largest accounting firm on the Los Angeles Business Journal’s Book of Lists, GHJ has 15 partners and more than 160 staff members that serve over 3,000 clients. GHJ is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), the AICPA Governmental Audit Quality Center (GAQC), the California Society of CPAs and the California Association of Nonprofits (CalNonprofit).
