At Prospects, we understand that your people are your most valuable asset.
At Prospects, we have a history of finding the right people for our clients. They rely on us because we understand the legal industry, their growth strategy and their corporate personality.
We pride ourselves on sourcing the right legal talent quickly and accurately. We only put forward candidates that we believe have the best skills and experience for each position.
Our success is a result of our extensive networks, databases and candidate relationships. Some of our effective additional sourcing strategies include: market mapping; executive searches; AI; print and online marketing campaigns; effective social media and referrals. As well as sourcing the best legal talent and arranging interviews we assist in offer negotiations. We also follow up to ensure our candidates have met your expectations.
All interactions with our clients is the goal of building and maintaining long term relationships. We treat all our clients with the utmost respect and do not make promises we cannot keep. Prospects will be honest and direct and expect our clients, in turn, to be to be honest and direct with us.
It is important to remember that when you are selecting a recruiter that they are in effect representing your firm or company. The recruiter becomes the initial face of your firm / company in the eyes of any potential candidates. This image can be enhanced greatly by ensuring the legal recruitment consultant has a deep knowledge about your firm/company and the role in question.
Represented a UK law firm looking to establish a presence in Ireland.
Facilitated a Joint Venture between a British Law firm and a Mid-Tier Irish firm.
Represented a Sole Partnership with succession planning by sourcing a future equity partner to buy them out.
This approach to legal recruitment is the most common. Firstly, one of our consultants will meet with your company and an agreement is reached as to the level of experience that the candidate is required to have; who they will report into; how the recruitment process will be structured etc. Our consultants will then search our database for any suitable candidates, and also advertise the positions on relevant recruitment sites as well here on prospects.ie.
Suitable candidates who are interested in the position will be firstly screened internally and then, sent over to the company for interview. Prospects will obtain the candidates feedback and report this back to the client. At this stage the client will give some initial feedback that can be passed back to the candidate.
No fee is paid by the client until a suitable candidate is hired and starts the position.
This form of recruitment involves Prospects creating an advertisement for publication in national press/industry magazines/Premium LinkedIn advertisement. The content of the advert is agreed between Prospects and the recruiting company. The advertisement may display the name of the hiring company or may be a ‘blind’ advert.
Prospects deals with all responses to the advert, interviews the candidates and then compiles a shortlist of suitable candidates for the client to interview. The advertising costs are borne by the client, but all preferential advertising rates secured by Prospects are passed onto the client.
The fee for the successful recruitment of the lawyer is payable once the lawyer takes up the position.
This is the most common form of recruitment for senior and partnership roles where a more research-based approach to recruitment is needed. It involves a proportion of the fee paid upfront to cover initial stages of the process around ‘market mapping’ and longlisting.
Whether you are looking to sell your practice with one eye on retirement or looking to merge with a larger entity for more security and a chance to leverage a prestigious brand we may be able to assist you.
If you are a firm that is seeking to acquire/merge with another law firm we have experience in identifying and brokering deals.