Blackbridge Communications is an employee-owned agency that specialises in employer branding, helping clients attract and engage talent.

We work with organisations ranging from FTSE 100 businesses through to start-ups and charities to creatively communicate and deliver their talent attraction strategies. 

Based in Spitalfields, we’re a team of 35 specialists. Our employer marketing expertise lies in employer brand building, creative concept development, campaign management, website and digital solutions. As a member of the OneAgent network, the world’s largest network of employer branding agencies, we can also assist our clients to implement their people communications strategies internationally.

Find out more about Blackbridge at blackbridge.co.uk.

Sponsors of: Grand Prix

Clyde & Co’s employment team are dedicated to advising clients on all the ‘people’ issues that they face. With a focus on the professional services sector, they deal with all partner and employment issues, including hiring, assisting in change programmes, managing and resolving disputes when they arise (including partner disputes), and much more.

Sponsors of: Excellence in Equality & Inclusion

Since our inception 30 years ago 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

When it comes to HR recruitment, you’re in safe hands with Oakleaf Partnership. Since 2005, we have been successfully placing people into jobs across every HR discipline, in every sector imaginable. Yet we’re still as approachable as ever. For clients and candidates alike, we’re more than just experts. We’re trusted advisors.

Our specialist professional services team specialises in recruiting top HR, Reward and Payroll talent to US & UK law firms on both an interim and permanent basis. Oakleaf Executive focuses on Head of / Director level search across the full HR spectrum. Our client base ranges from small employment law boutiques through to global, full service powerhouses. With over 30 years combined professional services HR recruitment experience, our team has a fantastic track record of building relationships within and commitment to the legal sector.

Oakleaf has also recently launched two new businesses! Our Tech, Change & Transformation practice, which works with businesses looking for diverse technology and transformation professionals within areas such as Data, Cloud, Digital and Change Management. Our Oakleaf US business has national capability with hubs in San Fransisco and New York, providing a full spectrum service supporting HR professionals on their career journey embracing developing talent as well as Heads of, HRD’s, CPO’s and CHRO’s.

Oakleaf has become the market leader by working hard for our customers, and by making sure that our enduring relationships are built on trust, delivery and an outstanding customer experience. We are proud to be a Sunday Times Top 100 Best Small Company to Work For and we are also a Recruiter Magazine HOT 100 company.

Sponsors of: Best People Professional

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.

A chosen partner to many law firms large and small, Smart About Health is a doctor-led, evidence-based workplace health and wellbeing solution that improves your employee’s health and happiness. In the health and wellbeing space we are trailblazers, challenging the status quo through our innovative programmes and trainings for all your staff, wellbeing champions, mangers and leaders (such as our Partner Wellbeing Programme). Our programmes complement your reactive provisions such as PMI and EAP.

Through our bespoke partnership with you, we support your firm to be proactive and preventative in your approach. Through engagement in areas of health that can impact productivity, retention and absenteeism, we use our expertise to focus in on key health and wellbeing issues faced by those in the legal profession and more broadly. Our programmes and trainings are delivered by our team of over 100 frontline doctors enabling access to high quality information, realistic and proven approaches, and questions answered by a true expert.

We have a range clinician-led programmes dedicated to wellbeing, health and DEI, one size does not fit all. To find out more about our work within the legal sector and beyond contact: Laura.David@smartabouthealth.com

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

About three years ago, we committed to reduce our footprint as early talent recruiters. The result of that decision was the founding of the Sustainable Recruitment Alliance. We’re beginning to stem the decades of damage that our early talent practices have caused to the environment. Our purpose is to help reduce the carbon footprint of early talent professionals. Our mission is to create and empower a deeply connected ecosystem of stakeholders, including early talent recruiters, universities, and student organisations, who are committed to reducing their collective carbon footprint and embedding sustainability at the heart of their practices.

Sponsors of: Best Environmental Initiative

targetjobs provides its 1 million+ monthly users with access to advice and opportunities through partnerships with graduate employers and course providers. The platform delivers personalised, sector – focused content to students and recent graduates, including those interested in legal careers from both law and non – law academic backgrounds and profiles.

Sponsors of: Best Early Talent Recruitment Campaign

Totum is unparalleled in the recruitment of exceptional business services talent in law and professional services firms. Working across all business services functions, we help firms structure and resource their teams, often helping to scope out roles from scratch and sourcing the best business skills and capabilities to accelerate positive change across the sector. We specialise in business services recruitment so that we can dedicate all of our resources and expertise to matching up the very best business talent from across industry sectors with law and professional services firms both in the UK and internationally.

Totum’s dedicated HR & Operations team is here to help support individuals and firms across both generalist and specialist roles in areas like Talent Development, DEI, reward, employee relations, recruitment, health and wellbeing and more. We work at all levels of seniority, from HR Advisors/Officers up to Director, Chiefs and COOs. We pride ourselves on the long relationships we have built across the sector, often helping to grow and develop HR & Operations teams by applying our keen understanding of the evolving dynamics of this critical function. Whatever HR & Operations skills you need, we are on hand to deliver.

If you would like to find out more about how we could help you with your HR & Operations recruitment needs, or just to have a chat about latest market trends, contact laura.mcnair@totumpartners.com, hannah.leonsoon@totumpartners.com or briony.jenkins@totumpartners.com

Sponsors of: Best People Leader