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With over 25 years of specialist legal industry recruitment experience, we’ve placed thousands of legal professionals in jobs – over 500 in the last year alone.
As a lifelong partner to our customers, we put our candidates’ needs first, with our legal industry expert consultants providing advice, guidance and support. We’ll consider location, role, specialization, organization and sector – all to suit your career, lifestyle and earning ambitions.
Using our unrivalled range of client relationships, legal industry knowledge and expertise, we match professionals to jobs via qualifications and professional expertise.
Because whatever your career goals in the legal profession – from paralegal roles to in-house solicitors or director roles – we're here as your lifelong partner to help you get to where you want to go.
Hiring across company secretarial jobs, private practice jobs, paralegal jobs, the public sector and not-for-profit jobs, our hands-on experience placing legal professionals is second to none.
Check out our full range of top legal jobs here.
With a team of recruitng experts in eight offices, we support the talent needs of hundreds of organizations across Canada.
We work with hundreds of employers in the legal industry. From expanding global law firms to international organizations and smaller, local firms across Canada. This means we offer more choice of jobs, as well as unique insights opportunities you can't find anywhere else.
We’ve also matched legal professionals to a range of commercial organizations, such as:
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Legal jobs FAQs
With over 25 years of specialist industry experience placing legal professionals in jobs, and robust relationships with a vast network of legal employers – we offer a wide range of legal jobs across all levels of seniority. They include paralegal jobs, litigation legal assistants, law clerks, newly qualified solicitor jobs, associate jobs, lawyers and in-house legal roles.
There are quite a few avenues into the legal industry. The first and most obvious is to acquire a law degree, but the landscape is changing. The fastest route to becoming a solicitor or even a barrister is getting your university degree and subsequent qualifications.
But if that’s not an option, then some other routes in are to become a legal assistant, with positions starting at the $45,000 mark. To become a lawyer or solicitor, you will need that qualification – which, if you haven’t been to university, you can do in your own time if you’re juggling work life and a family.
Becoming a paralegal is also an excellent way to get into the legal industry – and it pays well too with the range in Montreal being $70,000 - $120,000 in a large-sized firm. Then there’s the role of legal secretary – the backbone of any legal business, and you don’t need prior industry knowledge.
A law degree is not necessarily required to work in the legal space. We have plenty of jobs in the legal industry on our books that don’t require a law degree. They include paralegal roles, legal assistants, legal and company secretaries. Also remember if you’re looking for a career change, consider all your transferable skills. Check out our job listings for more.
Do your research before a legal job interview. Remember the legal industry is a competitive market, so find out all you can about the company you’re interviewing with. Our legal specialist recruiters will be sure to give you as much information and advice to help you prepare. Also remember to have your own questions at the ready, to demonstrate your enthusiasm, motivation and development goals.
Our recruitment process
Your application goes directly to a dedicated recruiting expert for the role.
A recruiting expert will reach out to discuss your application, career history and future ambitions.
Your recruiting expert will meet you virtually or in one of our offices near you.
We listen, provide impartial career advice to place you in the right job, with the right organization.
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