The Modern Legal Staffing Agency for finding the Best Legal Professionals
Hire an Esquire provides law firms and corporate legal departments with modern legal staffing services. No more waiting for a legal recruiter to return your phone calls or emails. Simply log on any time of day or night, answer a few questions and we’ll instantly recommend the right legal professional.
Like a traditional legal recruiting firm, our network of paralegals, legal assistants, and attorneys is vetted and you can opt into payroll and compliance services for a full-service legal staffing agency experience.
All 29,000+ of our attorneys, paralegals, and other paraprofessionals go through a vetting process including a research-backed soft skills assessment designed to predict success in the legal industry—that’s something you won’t find with any other staffing company in the legal services space.
The Fastest Way to Hire Legal Professionals
Here’s our simple, 4-step process to help law firms and in-house legal departments secure the right legal talent.
- Sign Up: Create a login and choose a subscription plan that fits your legal outsourcing needs and team size. After subscribing, you’ll have the option to customize your plan to accommodate ebbs and flows in your hiring needs.
- Post a Job: Our intuitive job posting wizard helps you publish a job opening in under five minutes. Receive instant custom recommendations from within our vetted network.
- Review Talent: Review the Fit Scores—including our researched-back assessments—of applicants and use our in-app messaging and video tools to further vet, interview, and connect with potential hires.
- Hire: Extend offers to applicants directly on the platform. You have the option to leverage our easy-to-use payment service (1099 or W-2) or pay them directly using your own systems. We also have options if you’d like to make a direct hire.
A Large and Growing Pool of Legal Talent
Our legal professionals have backgrounds ranging from the AMlaw 25 and Fortune 500 to small law firms and in-house legal departments.
Our pool of qualified candidates come from 814 unique, legal-specific practice areas such as litigation support, intellectual property, and human resources law.
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The Best Legal Staffing Solution
Our unique pricing model means that you get the quality, vetting and streamlined experience of a legal employment agency without the high fees. If you’d like a full-service legal staffing agency option, you can opt into our payroll services and let us handle payroll for your contract based workforce. If you’d like a more permanent arrangement, you can also find candidates for a direct hire.
Tools to Keep You Competitive
Hire an Esquire’s hourly rate suggestion tool can provide suggested contract attorney hourly rates based on your job description, experience requirements, and market data. Our vetting process and research-backed soft skill assessments helps you to find the best fit for your role and your workplace culture.
Improved Candidate Quality
- Vetted Attorneys
We verify bar status for contract attorneys to ensure they are in good standing in the legal community. For legal professionals, we verify education and employment history after an offer has been made.
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References
We require 3 professional references from previous clients, employers, or colleagues.
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Hard & Soft Skills
Our attorneys and paraprofessionals also undergo a proprietary research-backed soft skills assessment proven to predict workplace performance. Their results are tailored to your specific job and workplace culture in the “fit score” you will see with your applicants.