• The Whole Story

• We do not mailshot your CV to personnel desks

We know how you should expect to be treated when dealing with a professional Career Consultant.

As a qualified lawyer, you have developed highly specialist and much sought after skills. As such, you do not expect your CV to be “mailshotted” around personnel desks by recruiters targeted to send out CVs .

You should expect your details to be considered/discussed by partners directly responsible to the recruitment, growth and development of any team. Too often, decisions as to whether your details even reach relevant partners are made taken out of your hands.

• Partners decide if they wish to meet you, not third parties

Our consultants insist on direct partner contact throughout the process of introduction. Only this way, can individuals be ensured that the people they are meeting fully understand each other’s aspirations and intentions.

• We understand that you do not need a new job

Review of your career – When should you consider a new firm

We know that, when we make our first direct approaches, successful individuals are not ardently seeking new positions. For this reason, we expect you to tell us how well things are going.

We do not, at this point, set out to tell you how wrong you are. We are frequently told how different our approach is, to that of other, more aggressive search firms.

The fact is, that you will be the exception to the rule if you happen to remain with one firm from admission to retirement!

Yes, partnership may well be on offer to you, but just because this is where you work now, does not necessarily make it the best partnership opportunity for you personally.

Similarly, as a partner, however senior, your personal goals, opinion and aspirations may not always continue to be satisfied by the firm you are currently with.

In-house opportunities are another issue. The timing of an in-house move is crucial. We will give honest advice to any one considering such a position.

As we stand now, opportunities for successful and ambitious solicitors will offer many of you a choice of options, which should continually be reviewed. The most successful “names” are not necessarily those with the most stable/solid career.

• What we do not do

We do not post details of vacancies on our website. Many are confidential, and the information we hold is often extremely detailed. Both candidates and clients have subjective requirements and we do not believe that such a broad brush approach is appropriate in our market.

If you are not actively seeking a new opportunity, but would like to be made aware of a particular type of role, simply let us know.

We will not try to persuade you to move to a new position to suit us. We take the view that, when the time is right for you, you will respect and appreciate the way we are able to assist you, and allow us to work with you.

If that should be 12 months from now, so be it. In the meantime, we would hope that you maybe able to help us with a little research or networking and we too, will keep you advised of movements and developments in the market.

We do not automatically acknowledge any communication from you – we appreciate security and confidentiality issues

• We understand and know your market

Our consultants

We do not profess to be experts in every field of law. By focusing in different sectors, however, we gain a deeper understanding of the issues and opportunities in each specialist field, together with a greater network of clients and candidates alike.

We are here for the long term. To individual lawyers, we see ourselves as Career Development Consultants, just as we are Search Consultants to clients who utilise our services to grow and develop their firms.

To some, our Midlands base may seem unusual, particularly those of you in the City. Our clients are, however, increasingly national as well as international, with as much movement taking place between London and the North, as London and the Far East.

Our consultants have significant experience of recruiting solicitors in the UK and overseas, spanning over 3 decades.