About this role
Job title: Legal Recruiting Specialist
About the Role The Legal Recruiting Specialist will collaborate with the Legal Recruiting team in Reed Smith's Philadelphia office to support law student recruitment, summer associate programming, and new associate onboarding. This role also supports lateral attorney recruiting in the Philadelphia and Wilmington markets and works closely with the Assistant Director of U.S. Entry Level Recruiting.
What You'll Do
- Schedule pre-screening calls and full interview rounds; coordinate and reschedule as needed; monitor daily interview calendars; greet candidates upon arrival; confirm timely connections with interviewers.
- Serve as a primary point of contact; communicate interview details and updates with applicants and interview teams.
- Support end-to-end attorney recruiting by collecting and organizing interview feedback; review resumes in connection with searches; ask thoughtful questions to build understanding of the firm, practice groups, and legal landscape.
- Complete forms, compile data, perform administrative and routine tasks with accuracy and attention to detail.
- Assist with on-campus recruiting season, create interview schedules, coordinate travel arrangements, prepare pre-arrival information and arrival packages, follow up with candidates.
- Assist with registration for on-campus interviews for regional and select firmwide law schools.
- Maintain accurate real-time data in Vi and Digital File.
- Accept assignments from senior team members, seek guidance when needed, shadow experienced colleagues on recruiting activities.
- Engage with attorneys to build productive relationships across the firm.
- Assist with the summer program, lead planning and hosting of events, schedule trainings, correspond with summer associates, organize orientation logistics.
- Assist with new associate orientation, lead planning of welcome reception, schedule conference rooms, correspond with new associates, organize logistics.
- Track summer associate assignments, evaluations, and feedback, prepare and send offer letters and rejection communications with professionalism and confidentiality.
- Understand firm systems, policies, procedures, and goals to troubleshoot questions and issues.
- Work closely with Payroll, Benefits, L&D, IT, and HR teams across offices.
- Support firmwide special projects as assigned.
What We're Looking For
- Bachelor's degree in a professional discipline required.
- Zero to two years of prior administrative or law-related experience.