Legal & Professional RPO
Your Hiring Team. Already Built.
Embedded RPO for law firms, compliance desks, accounting, and consulting.
We sit inside your practice and run your associate pipeline — without the overhead of building an in-house talent function from scratch.
340+
placements in 2025
18 days
avg. time-to-offer
94%
year-one retention
The People Behind the Placements
Meet the team you're already hiring with.
Priya Nair
Senior Legal Sourcing Specialist
Manages a curated database of 12,000+ qualified legal candidates across Big Law, boutique practices, and in-house roles.
12,000+
Vetted legal candidates
Actively sourced, screened, and maintained — not a stale ATS dump. Every candidate has been spoken to in the last 18 months.
Marcus Webb
Compliance Desk Recruiter
Specializes in filling Chief Compliance Officer, MLRO, and regulatory analyst roles during surge periods.
18 days
Average time-to-offer
From intake call to signed offer letter. Compared to the 67-day industry average for lateral associate hiring.
Sofia Reyes
Onboarding Coordinator
Runs a 30-day structured integration program so new hires are billing-ready, not just desk-ready.
94%
Year-one retention rate
Our structured integration process means hires stay. The industry average for lateral associates is 61%.
Average engagement start
72 hours
How It Works
Not an agency. An embedded function.
The difference isn't just cost — it's context. A Counsel team knows your conflicts policy, your culture, your compensation bands. They're yours.
Embedded from Day One
We don't send you a shortlist and disappear. Your Counsel team attends your intake meetings, learns your culture, and reports to your managing partner — not to us.
Lateral Pipeline Management
Continuous sourcing across associate, counsel, and partner-track roles. We track passive candidates who aren't on the market yet — and call them when you're ready.
Compliance Desk Surge Cover
Regulatory change moves fast. When your compliance headcount needs to double in 90 days, our dedicated compliance recruiters already have the pipeline.
30-Day Integration Program
Every hire gets a structured onboarding plan: week one orientation, 30-day milestone check-ins, and a dedicated coordinator until they're fully billable.
Where We Work
Built for professional services.
Not a generalist agency that dabbles in legal. Every recruiter on your team was hired for this vertical.
Law Firms
Lateral pipelines for AmLaw 200 and boutique practices
- Associate (all levels)
- Counsel & Partner-track
- Legal Operations
- Paralegal & Support
Compliance & Regulatory
Surge hiring when regulatory frameworks shift overnight
- Chief Compliance Officer
- MLRO & AML Specialist
- Regulatory Analyst
- Data Protection Officer
Accounting & Audit
Busy-season bench strength without permanent headcount
- Tax Associate & Manager
- External Auditor
- Forensic Accountant
- Transfer Pricing Specialist
Consulting
Project-matched talent for proposal season and delivery surges
- Management Consultant
- Strategy Analyst
- Implementation Lead
- Sector Specialist
Results
What managing partners actually say.
"Offers out in under three weeks."
We'd burned through two agencies in six months trying to fill three senior associate spots. Counsel embedded their team within a week and had offers out in under three weeks. I stopped getting calls from headhunters about my own open roles.
Jonathan Hargreaves
Managing Partner
Hargreaves & Voss LLP — Corporate M&A
"Seven hires, all still here 14 months later."
When DORA hit, we needed to double our compliance function in 90 days. Counsel already had the pipeline. They didn't scramble — they delivered. Seven hires, all still here 14 months later.
Adaeze Okonkwo
General Counsel
Meridian Capital Partners — Regulatory
"I stopped being a recruiter."
The thing nobody tells you about RPO is how much quieter your inbox gets. I stopped being a recruiter and went back to being a CFO. The Counsel team runs the whole function.
Daniel Sørensen
CFO & HR Oversight
Thornfield Advisory Group — Tax & Audit
Ready to stop recruiting and start hiring?
Tell us your practice area and number of open roles. A senior member of your embedded team will reach out within one business day — no pitch deck, no slideshow.
Not sure if RPO is right for you yet?
Download the Legal RPO Readiness Checklist — a practical framework used by 200+ firms to decide when embedded recruitment makes more sense than agency spend.
- Agency vs. RPO cost comparison matrix
- Lateral hiring audit framework
- 30-day integration benchmark scorecard