Employers’ Hiring FAQ

What are the advantages of working with a recruiter?

Using a recruiter can provide a cost effective and time saving method for finding the most qualified and appropriate candidates for your search. Chicago Legal Search consistently recruits attorneys who have exceptional credentials and experience. These attorneys are “superstars” who are in excellent standing with their current employers and are too busy to read or respond to classified advertisements. Instead, they rely on us to present attractive job opportunities to them. We promote your position and provide our candidates detailed information about your opportunity. Our recruiters screen every candidate before submitting them to you. When submitting our candidates, we send you a detailed cover letter, providing information relating to why each candidate is interested in your position, their current practice and responsibilities, and their personality. We strive to find candidates who have both the precise experience you require and personality to be a good fit with your firm or company.

What makes Chicago Legal Search stand out?

Founded in 1988, Chicago Legal Search is one of the oldest and largest attorney recruiting companies in Chicago. We are well-known and trusted throughout the Chicago legal community for our ethics, dedication and committment to our clients, and the quality of our recruiting results. Through our database of over 25,000 attorneys in the Chicago market and our tireless recruiting efforts, we can effectively provide you with immediate and in depth access to the most highly qualified attorneys. Our four recruiters (all of whom are attorneys) have a combined total of over 80 years of legal and recruiting experience. We love the business of recruiting and take pride in assisting you in finding the ideal candidate for your search. We also confidentially advertise your position on our web site, which is consistently identified at the top of search engine results for attorney jobs in Chicago.

What does Chicago Legal Search charge for conducting an attorney search?

We work on a contingency basis, so there is no fee to you unless you hire a candidate whom we have submitted. You can review resumes through us at no cost and compare their quality to those you receive from other sources. Should you hire a CLS-submitted candidate, the placement fee is based on a percentage of the placed candidate’s compensation. We offer a six-month pro-rata guarantee on all of our placements. We also conduct retained and exclusive searches. For further information, please contact our office.

Will all of the recruiters at CLS work on my search?

Yes, unlike many other search firms that have only one recruiter working on your behalf, all of our recruiters work on all of our searches.

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