Legal Recruiting Assistant

A leading international firm opportunity for an entry-level candidate to join their team as a Legal Recruiting Assistant.  

Candidates who apply must be available to work on a hybrid basis at law firm's Washington, DC office beginning in May 2025 and commit to this position through the end of July 2025.  There is a possibility for extension as well based on work performance, and also temporary to hire consideraion.

The assistant will support the legal/attorney recruiting team with creating initiatives to help attract top legal talent. The role is combination of administrative support, event planning, and coordinating interviews/gaining feedback from attorneys and summer associate applicants. This is a great opportunity for entry-level candidates to gain a wide variety of experience.  If you are law school bound, this position will also give you amazing insight into firms' summer associate programs and recruiting priorities.

The Recruiting Assistant will be responsible for organizing and implementing the Summer Associate Program, scheduling orientations and exit interviews, handling registration for on-campus programs and job fairs, maintaining candidate files after interviews, monitoring the recruiting inbox, assisting the Recruitment Manager with organizing lateral associate and judicial clerk applications, preparing summaries of candidates for review, maintaining the firm's recruiting database (viRecruit) with updated candidate files, coordinating payments for associate hires (moving/travel expenses, bar, clerkship), and more!

Qualified candidate will possess a Bachelor's Degree, and prior experience in an office environment, excellent organizational skills and attention to detail, the ability to prioritize competing priorities, ability to successfully work in a team setting, and proficiency using MS Office.