West Coast Attorney Recruiting Specialist

About the role

Fisher Phillips is seeking an Attorney Recruiting Specialist to handle full-cycle attorney recruiting for assigned West Coast offices, with an initial focus on Seattle, Portland, and Northern California. This role is an integral part of the Associate, Counsel, and Law Student Recruiting team and, under the leadership of an Attorney Recruiting Manager, will have primary responsibility for lateral associate and counsel hiring across assigned markets.

Primary Market Focus

The role supports our Seattle, Portland, and Northern California offices.

Schedule

The role is Full-time; flexibility required during peak recruiting periods.

Reports To

The role reports to an Attorney Recruiting Manager (West Coast).

Key Responsibilities

• Lateral Attorney Recruiting
• Law Student Recruiting
• Recruiting Operations, Reporting & Team Support

Lateral Attorney Recruiting

• Execute the full-cycle recruiting process for assigned associate and of counsel searches across Seattle, Portland, and Northern California offices, with support for other West Coast offices as business needs require.
• Partner with Regional Managing Partners, office leadership, practice group leaders, and other hiring attorneys to understand current and anticipated hiring needs, develop search strategies, and provide regular recruiting updates.
• Source, screen, and evaluate attorney candidates against defined hiring needs, and prepare concise candidate summaries and recommendations for hiring teams.
• Handle candidate communications throughout the recruiting lifecycle, including outreach, interview coordination, follow-up, offer-stage engagement, and post-acceptance communication.
• Coordinate offer preparation, negotiations, and acceptance activity in partnership with recruiting leadership and firm administration.
• Manage relationships with approved search firms, including submissions, communication, search status, and adherence to Firm recruiting policies.
• Maintain complete and accurate candidate, requisition, source, and hiring information in viRecruit and other recruiting systems.
• Monitor recruiting activity, pipeline status, hiring metrics, source effectiveness, and time-to-fill, and prepare reports that support team and leadership visibility.
• Contribute to recruiting process improvement, technology adoption, and firmwide recruiting initiatives and special projects.

Law Student Recruiting

• Support law student recruiting initiatives for assigned West Coast offices, including on-campus recruiting, first-year hiring, callback interviews, recruiting events, and the Summer Clerk Program.
• Candidate and attorney communications, interviews, offers, and follow-up activity for law student candidates as assigned.
• Partner with Recruiting Managers and team members to deliver a consistent, high-quality candidate and summer clerk experience across offices.
• Participate in planning and execution of office-specific law student recruiting strategies based on hiring needs, market conditions, and program objectives.

Recruiting Operations, Reporting & Team Support

• Maintain complete and accurate candidate, requisition, source, and hiring information in viRecruit and other recruiting systems.
• Monitor recruiting activity, pipeline status, hiring metrics, source effectiveness, and time-to-fill, and prepare reports that support team and leadership visibility.
• Contribute to recruiting process improvement, technology adoption, and firmwide recruiting initiatives and special projects.
• Provide guidance and workflow support to Recruiting Coordinators as appropriate and help reinforce consistent recruiting practices and data quality standards across the team.
• Process recruiting-related expenses and provide administrative coordination as needed.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Four or more years of law firm lateral attorney recruiting experience required.
• Demonstrated experience leading full-cycle recruiting and independently advancing multiple searches from intake through acceptance.
• Strong direct-sourcing capability, including experience using LinkedIn Recruiter and other tools to identify, engage, and build relationships with passive candidates.
• Ability to assess candidate experience and qualifications against defined hiring needs and provide clear, concise recommendations to hiring teams.
• Strong relationship-management skills and the ability to build credibility with attorneys, candidates, search firms, and internal stakeholders.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with sound judgment and discretion in handling confidential and sensitive information.
• Exceptional organization, project management, and time-management skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience working with applicant tracking systems required.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite; experience with recruiting analytics, reporting, and data quality strongly preferred.
• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively within a geographically dispersed team.

Compensation

This position offers a competitive annualized salary range of $80,000 to $100,000 for the Portland and Seattle markets, and $87,000 to $109,000 for Northern California (Sacramento/San Francisco).