As champions of direct sourcing, Professionals in Law is the only legal job board to advertise all roles within a law firm. Vacancies come straight from law firms looking to connect with top candidates directly to promote their employer brand while making cost savings.

Working with a diverse mix of firms from the magic circle to regionals, Professionals in Law supports HR teams in their direct recruitment efforts with hands-on account management.

Aon is a global professional services firm providing a broad range of risk, retirement, health and talent solutions. We empower results for our clients and their people by reducing risk and improving performance through effective use of data and analytics and expert consultancy. We have a dedicated legal sector practice consulting over 180 law firm clients including UK-based firms and US firms with UK offices.

Our team of legal sector experts are committed to empowering firms through their benefits strategy, engaging and rewarding talent, improving wellbeing, managing pensions and retirement risks and protecting firms against negligence. Contact us to find out more or join one of our regular roundtable discussions for HR professionals working in the legal sector.

Sponsors of: Outstanding Employee Engagement and Best Health & Wellbeing Initiative (for firms of up to 750 employees including partners)

Legal Monitor is a dedicated law firm search engine. It combines the latest in search and analytics technologies, and is the perfect solution for sourcing the best legal candidates, identifying hiring trends, conducting law firm market mapping research and competitor research.

Search across:

• 400 law firms

• 184,000+ fee earners

• 98 countries

• 40,000+ matter transactions using Legal Monitor's proprietary deals database (Market Tracker)

• 20,000+ lateral moves and promotions

• 20 core practice areas

• 100 expertise areas

• Qualification date range

• Legal press, news, legal directories and social media

For further information, or to arrange a demonstration, please contact Ed O’Brien, Commercial Director on ed.obrien@legal-monitor.com or call him on 020 3865 9607.

Sponsors of: Excellence in Direct Recruitment

Vero is the UK’s leading provider of background screening services, focusing exclusively on delivering clients exceptional service across:

• Pre-employment Screening
• On-going Employee Monitoring
• Criminal Record Checks
• Leavers References
• Right to Work Verification

In everything we do, we believe in setting new standards in client and candidate experience. We innovate, streamline and question in order to improve quality, communication and experience. By placing our clients at the heart of everything we do and using advanced and innovative technology Vero provides an outstanding level of service with emphasis on quality reporting and an enhanced candidate and client experience, combined with the ability to deliver faster turnaround times. Our range of screening services ensures that Clients and Candidates have a fixed point of contact and a user-friendly interface. Adapting to clients HR systems and onboarding requirements, Vero provide high levels of customer service and have a market-leading, user-friendly interface which tracks each step of the way.

Based exclusively in the UK, Vero service clients globally utilising bespoke time-zoned systems and in-house linguists covering 25+ languages. Designed to run alongside clients’ existing on-boarding programmes, Vero’s solutions help reduce administrative burden, improve retention and promote an open and honest culture within our clients’ organisations.

If you would like to find out how your organisation could benefit please contact William Craig, on wcraig@veroscreening.com or by telephone on 01273 009 411.

Sponsors of: Excellence in Talent Management

Lexology Insights conducts detailed and confidential surveys of compensation, benefits, operations and billing rates among international law firms in key jurisdictions around the globe.

We focus on legal markets outside the United Kingdom and United States where international law firms often struggle to obtain accurate local benchmarking data. We annually survey 23 countries across Europe, Asia and the Middle East, and have more than 20 years’ experience conducting such research. The country-specific reports resulting from our surveys offer detailed compensation, benefits and billing rate benchmarking data for all levels of fee-earners and business services staff.

Lexology Insights compensation, benefits and billing reports are an essential tool for any international law firm looking to secure a competitive edge in foreign markets and are used by HR management teams at more than 50 major international law firms. Our reports also offer detailed market assessments for law firms looking to set up offices in new and unfamiliar jurisdictions.

Law firms that participate in our confidential surveys are eligible for major discounts on the price of the resulting reports, with multi-region subscribers able to benefit from significant further discounts.

For more details visit www.Lexology.com/insights or contact Gwilym Davies at gdavies@GlobeBMG.com or on +44 (0) 20 7940 6858. 

Lexology Insights is a brand of Globe Business Media Group (www.GlobeBMG.com).

Sponsors of: Excellence in Reward & Recognition

Sponsors of: Best CSR Initiative

vdoc is a fully concierge-driven global healthcare solution for businesses. It provides immediate access to private doctor and prescription services within the workplace as well as rapid access to diagnostic medical centres. Typically, a member can see a doctor by video-link within the hour, have prescriptions delivered or collect from a local pharmacy within two hours and complete and obtain results for blood tests, MRI scans, Ultrasound, X-Ray scans within 24 hours. Furthermore, a doctor can provide a referral to a specialist consultant for you to be seen within 72 hours – all managed by our dedicated healthcare concierge team.

Sponsors of: Excellence in Equality & Inclusion

Sponsors of: Excellence in Learning & Development

Access' HR software will support every aspect of your HR, talent management and payroll. From recruitment and onboarding to performance and absence management, as well as a flexible range of payroll solutions, we will help you to unite, integrate and optimise all of your people processes.

Sponsors of: Best HR Innovation Through Technology

CILEx Law School is an award-winning provider of apprenticeship training to the legal sector. We have been delivering legal apprenticeships since they first became available in 2012 and over 450 apprentices are now employed within client organisations nationally. We can work in partnership with you from the very beginning, by advising on apprenticeship level (legal administration, paralegal, Chartered Legal Executive or solicitor), assisting with recruitment and training supervisors. On-programme support is provided by our regionally-based team of law teachers.

If you would like to find out how your organisation could benefit from an apprenticeship programme please contact Jenny Pelling, Director of Business and Apprenticeships, CILEx Law School, on jenny.pelling@cilexlawschool.ac.uk or by telephone on 07970 930106. 

Sponsors of: Best School-Leaver or Apprenticeship Initiative

Conduent HR Services offers you an all-encompassing proposition to fulfil the needs of both you and your employees. By harnessing the technology of the future, we can help you to deliver the solutions you want, to maximise productivity and employee engagement.

With Conduent Life Connect, we bring you a holistic, single online platform for the delivery and communication of employee benefit programmes, talent management, learning and development, and HR solutions. Truly forward-thinking and innovative, and the single solution required to meet your needs.

Conduent HR Services helps employers improve their HR programmes through advisory, technology, and administrative services while enabling employees to better manage their health, wealth, and career development. By integrating our HR consulting know-how with Conduent core services, we can offer additional innovative and customised solutions to help you overcome your HR challenges. Together, we can ensure you have the right people in the right positions at the right time to save money and achieve your business goals. 

Sponsors of: Best Health & Wellbeing Initiative (for firms of over 750 employees including partners)

trendence Research (UK & Ireland) is the premier student-focused market research business in the UK and Ireland. Using data and insight from a range of our surveys, we help employers create a strategy to better recruit the graduates and school-leavers they most want and to refine their attraction campaigns and activities in schools and on campus. Our annual Law Study uses a sample of c70,000 undergraduates from all year groups at 126 universities across the UK, with representative participation across all diversity groups.

Whether it’s understanding what a student’s perception is of you and your competitor’s employer brand, improving your diversity balance or building a university/school engagement strategy to ensure you get the best ROI for your marketing, our research products can support you in achieving your objectives.

Sponsors of: Best Trainee Recruitment Campaign

Oakleaf Partnership are the largest and fastest growing independent HR recruitment agency in the UK, with dedicated HR, Reward, Payroll, Human Capital Services and Part Time teams as well as a regional team, based in Birmingham. We recruit for our clients across every industry imaginable and in doing so partner with a hugely diverse range of organisations.

We work across all industry sectors, both UK and internationally, establishing Oakleaf as the market leader by adopting a strong values-led business philosophy that we all live and work by. We are proud to be a Sunday Times Best Small Company to Work For, with 3 stars for employee engagement, and a London Stock Exchange Group Company Most Likely to Inspire Britain 2017. We are also a Recruiter Magazine HOT 100 company, gaining an impressive 18 places in the rankings since the 2016 report, coming in at 37th for 2017.

Sponsors of: Best Individual Contribution

Since our inception in 1992 we’ve had a simple approach to recruitment; be the best we can and strive to exceed client’s expectations in everything we do. It’s an approach that has served us well and we are proud to recruit for many of London’s most prestigious law firms. We supply the vital business support staff responsible for making sure their practices run smoothly and efficiently.

Our Legal Industry expertise encompasses a wide range of business support roles from Administrators, EA’s and PA’s to Advisers, Execs and Managers within: HR, Secretarial Services, Marketing & Business Development, Risk & Compliance, IT and Facilities/Front of House.

We also supply consultancy services to law firms going through periods of support staff re-organisation, from the initial discussion and planning stages through to final implementation.

Sponsors of: Rising Star

Totum is the leader in law firm business services recruitment – passionate about the evolving role of law firm business functions in delivering, supporting and accelerating change during this period of transition for the legal sector. We know that today's law firms can only succeed with the best business skills and capabilities. That's why we specialise in business services recruitment, dedicating all of our resources to matching up the very best business talent from across industry sectors with law firms based in the UK, as well as on the international and US stage.

Our specialist teams span all business services divisions, with our dedicated HR function here to help support the successful development of your team, from placing HR Assistants, Advisors and Managers right up to Heads of and Directors of HR. We have placed individuals, often supporting their careers up to HR leadership or even COO level, and we have helped place HR teams applying our keen understanding of the evolving dynamics of this critical function. Whatever HR skills you need, at any level of seniority, we are on hand to deliver.

Sponsors of: HR Team of the Year

We're a specialist people communications agency that creates, and delivers, all types of messages to existing, and potential, employees.

Based in central London, we employ thirty professionals across a range of creative, digital and project management roles. Our creativity has been recognised by the CIPD Recruitment Marketing Awards, the RAD Awards, the Digi Awards and the TARGETjobs National Graduate Recruitment Awards.

Sponsors of: Grand Prix