Senior Advisor, Lateral Partner Recruitment

Firm Summary

White & Case is an elite global law firm serving leading companies, financial institutions, and governments worldwide. Our long history as an international firm means we are perfectly placed to help our clients resolve their most complex legal challenges wherever they may be.

With lawyers and staff operating from more than 47 locations, working in virtually every country of the world, we have invested heavily in building a high-quality full-service practice competing at the top of the market. We are distinguished by our on-the-ground presence in the world’s key financial markets and our strengths in handling complex cross-border work.

It’s not just about our global network of offices and shared services centers; it’s the global interconnectedness of the Firm that our people, and our clients, value most. We work well together across geographic and practice boundaries. It’s one of the reasons we attract and retain cross-border work. 

Our lawyers are globally minded, enterprising, collaborative, and committed to excellence. Our people represent 90 nationalities and speak 80 languages. 

Position Summary

Working as part of the Lateral Partner Recruiting team, reporting to the Director of Partner Recruiting in the US, the role holder has responsibility for providing administrative support to all aspects of the Firm’s lateral partner recruiting processes (primarily for candidates in Americas with some support to Asia and EMEA).

Candidates for this role should have a strong administrative background including highly developed organizational skills. Legal recruitment experience, or at least experience of working directly in a partnership or professional services environment, is preferred. General IT literacy is an additional important requirement. The role would be well suited to an individual looking to gain experience of and build a career in lateral partner, or wider legal, recruiting.

This is a very busy team with deadlines to meet that requires a calm and approachable attitude as well as the confidence and maturity to deal with people at all levels, both within the Firm and externally (including senior level candidates). It is essential that a professional, helpful and friendly attitude is shown at all times.

Candidates for this role must be able and willing to deal with the considerable administrative workload required as well as demonstrating the necessary initiative and confidence to work under minimal supervision as needed.

This is a global role and the successful candidate will need to be able to demonstrate some flexibility with regard to working and responsiveness outside of core business hours for this reason. Working some hours on weekday evenings and weekends will be necessary at busy times. 

Duties and Accountabilities1

• Support the administration of the lateral partner recruiting process including the coordination of all candidate interviews, preparation and circulation of business case materials, collation of interview feedback and other supporting requirements.

• Draft documents including business cases, LPQs, EC dossiers, Firm meeting slides etc.

• Liaise with recruitment agencies on new candidate submissions; ensuring CV and other submissions materials are logged, circulated appropriately for consideration, and dealt with in a timely manner.

• Ensure the smooth running of all administrative processes for the wider team.

• Coordinate with Guest Services and Techology to ensure all candidate meetings (and video conferences) are properly organized and run efficiently. Attend all scheduled interviews to ensure relevant partners are present.

• Responsibility for helping to organize all Lateral Partner and New Partner Review Meetings along with the preparation and circulation of supporting materials; take minutes as required.

• Coordination of complex international travel itineraries for partner candidates.

• Assist with the onboarding of new partners.

• Field queries and provide updates to key stakeholders in the absence of the Partner Recruiting Director.

• Assist with preparation of agency search agreements and subsequent payment