Paralegal Recruiters

The Role of Paralegals

Paralegals (also referred to as legal assistants) support lawyers and other legal professionals by assisting with or taking responsibility for technical and administrative tasks. Typically, their duties include things like legal research, preparing documents, administrative tasks, interviewing witnesses, communicating with clients and providing them with information, and visiting the court.

There is a wide variety of areas that paralegals can specialize in, including dispute resolution, employment, crime, litigation, family law, or personal injury. Each of these specialty areas requires a unique set of skills and traits.

Paralegal talent is in high demand, due to ever-changing legal regulations and their rising complexity. Because the demand is so high, paralegals often experience high levels of job stability and satisfaction, and the field has many chances for professional growth. However, while the job market offers many opportunities for paralegals, this also makes it highly competitive – something that is especially true for specialty positions.

In such a saturated and competitive market, it can be challenging for a law firm to find the right candidates for their needs. Many firms are turning to paralegal headhunters and legal recruiters like Keller to aid them in their search.

At Keller, our team is ideally positioned to assist companies and law firms in finding talented paralegals who match their requirements. We make use of our vast hands-on experience in the field, as well as the extensive specialized recruitment skills and technical knowledge of our team to find and recruit the right candidates.

As recognized partners of NPAworldwide, our passionate team not only boasts academic and professional qualifications, but also access to an international network of candidates from which we can hand-select the best of the best.

Our Approach to Paralegal Executive Search

Each law firm has unique needs and goals. For this reason, every search is different.

To make a successful placement, our paralegal recruiters first aim to understand your business and its culture, needs, and goals. To do this, our first step in the process is a meeting with all the important parties in the law firms or legal corporations we serve. This meeting is also an ideal opportunity for our team to learn what you expect from candidates in terms of their personalities, leadership styles, work ethic, qualifications, and work experience.

We then use these insights to form search parameters to guide us in finding and providing our clients with paralegal professionals who will thrive in their company and lead it to new success.

With these parameters in mind, we conduct an exhaustive search to find the best paralegal talent for our clients. We carefully select the candidates who seem best suited to our clients and their teams.

The selected candidates are then subjected to a rigorous screening process. This involves performing extensive professional and criminal background checks for each candidate. We also verify the validity of their resumes, their references, and their experience.

Additionally, we make use of advanced psychometric tests during our vetting process to pinpoint the candidates with the ideal personality types, leadership styles, and work ethic for our client. Once this screening is complete, the candidates who pass are shortlisted and provided to the client for final interviews.

Why Keller Uses A Tailored Paralegal Recruitment Approach

And How Our Approach Differs

At Keller, our team boasts extensive first-hand experience recruiting paralegals for firms around the world. These first-hand experiences have guided us during our time as recruiters and have affected the way we approach executive search. One experience was especially influential in changing and shaping our recruitment method.

During our first few years operating as a legal and paralegal headhunting agency, we made use of a generic recruitment method which we applied to all our clients. Our client base was limited to a modest group of smaller companies and their needs were very similar. For this reason, this cookie-cutter approach served us well.

Soon, however, we were approached by a larger and more influential client to assist them in finding experienced paralegals. Thinking that our approach would achieve similar results, we applied it without change to this project as well.

Unfortunately, and to our surprise, we were unable to secure a successful placement. While the candidates we provided the client with seemed to match their requirements on paper, in practice, none of them were the right match. They did not have the personality type and leadership qualities our client was looking for, despite having the correct qualifications.

This challenging experience opened our eyes to the many limitations of using a generic recruitment method for every search. It also taught us how valuable it is to offer a tailored approach that takes client needs into account, instead.

Since then, Keller’s team has worked hard to develop and perfect our methodology, and we have achieved great success as a result. We also gained a long-standing reputation for the reliability and quality of our solutions. Our approach and the superior results it yields has helped us foster and maintain enduring client relationships. It has also has lasting impact on the field of recruitment, by inspiring other agencies to make use of similarly tailored methods and contributing to an improved global understanding of recruitment.

Keller’s Guarantee

While we leave no stone unturned when finding talented professionals for our clientele, Keller acknowledges that even the best recruitment methods can never be truly foolproof. For this reason, we offer a 90-day guarantee as an added assurance to our clientele. Should the placed talent fail to meet client expectations or choose to leave the firm within the first 3 months of their employment, we will redo the search at no additional cost to the client.

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Our Fields of Expertise

Our goal is to assist medium-sized, large-sized, and Fortune 500 companies reach the best legal assistants to join their teams. Our team of recruiters works with a broad range of companies in the following fields:

• Corporate/Commercial Law
• Criminal Law
• Family Law
• Real Estate
• Personal Injury
• Intellectual Property
• Immigration Law
• Bankruptcy Law
• Environmental Law
• Estate Planning and Probate
• Labor and Employment
• Litigation
• Healthcare/Medical Law
• Tax Law
• Admiralty/Maritime Law
• Entertainment Law
• Government and Public Law
• E-Discovery
• Freelance/Contract Paralegal
• Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)

Paralegal Positions We Fill

As top paralegal recruiters, we help clients fill executive-level and senior-level positions in the paralegal profession. Our team works with both startup and leading law firms, hedge funds, and paralegal associations in filling open leadership roles. Some of the positions we fill include Paralegal Directors, Litigation Support Managers, Compliance Managers/Officers, and Legal Operations Managers. Keller is capable of finding talented professionals for permanent, temporary, direct-hire, temp-to-hire, and remote jobs.

Keep in mind, however, that Keller is not limited to these roles. Our passionate team of recruiters also boasts extensive experience recruiting paralegals for a wide range of sectors and positions outside of those mentioned above.

Why Choose Keller As Your Go-To Paralegal Headhunters and Legal Recruiters?

Keller’s team of headhunters have in-depth knowledge of the paralegal field, having served the legal industry for years. This allows us to provide clients with guidance on improving their HR processes and putting strategies in place to better attract, engage, and retain legal talent.

Our experience and extensive database of connections and professionals allow us to fill roles quickly. During each search, we leverage our network of contacts to get referrals and recommendations of candidates who could meet our client’s hiring requirements. Additionally, our team sends out cold calls and emails to connect with “hard-to-reach” candidates who may or may not be actively looking for new opportunities.

Our Promise – The Right Hire

When you partner with Keller, you are partnering with a team of recruiters who conduct themselves with the utmost professionalism. We are committed to conducting each search with confidentiality and discretion. Keller’s team will always prioritize your safety and privacy. For this reason, we make use of responsible practices and adhere to the highest standard of ethical conduct to safeguard your sensitive information.

In addition to our dedication to discretion, is is our mission to find the perfect match for your business and we are committed to fostering diversity and inclusion in the legal community. At Keller, we select candidates based solely on their suitability for our client’s available role. Our headhunters are dedicated to treating each candidate fairly and without any bias in relation to their age, beliefs, ethnicity, or gender.

Our team aims to stay updated on the latest findings, developments, technological advancements, and market shifts in the field, as part of our mission to never stop learning.

Keller is committed to fulfilling your paralegal executive search needs.

As part of this commitment, Keller aims to provide top-tier service. For this reason, our team greatly values feedback on our services from both current and prospective clientele. This allows us to continually improve our offerings, and we aim to keep contact with clients respectful and constructive at all times.

Are you ready to hire? Contact Keller today to schedule a consultation.