Practice Manager – Legal Staffing
The Practice Manager will lead and oversee the recruitment and deployment of temporary, temp-to-perm, and project-based legal professionals while building and maintaining strong client relationships with law firms and corporate legal departments. This role combines strategic recruiting expertise with business development and client delivery, ensuring timely, scalable, and high-quality staffing solutions that meet customers’ evolving workforce needs
Our Vision & Mission
- Through Talento’s unique bundling of solutions, we establish our best practice standards as the go to service model within the $500 billion staffing and recruiting industry.
- Transform hiring managers' expectations of recruiting partners, one customer at a time.
- Earn the partnership of HR teams to seamlessly extend their capabilities through Talento’s customer experience model.
- Elevate the mindset of recruiting in an organization from transactional to strategic.
- Raise the caliber of human capital in the markets and communities we serve through the businesses and people we touch.
What guides us?
- Lead our customers and communities to create modern workplaces & cultures that harness the strength of diversity and talent
- Integrate talent & organizational solutions to reduce complexity and increase efficiency for our customers
- Discover the right human capital solutions that enhance the performance of our customers’ businesses
- Optimize the things our customers excel at as we obsess over how to continuously capitalize on the human side of business
Who is Talento?
At Talento, we are customer-obsessed advisors with trust-based customer relationships throughout high growth, middle market and enterprise companies. Our exceptional team of recruiting advisors coupled with valuable consulting resources enable us to respond swiftly. Whether a business is merging, growing, divesting or retooling their approach, a trusted advisor who can integrate free-of-charge consulting resources is what our customers have grown to rely on. This bundling of services separates us from the mass market with a unique competitive advantage and value-add. We are proud geeks for all things people!
What’s in it for you?
Do you have a strong desire to learn and grow, both financially and professionally? Are you a value-driven professional with an interest in joining an elite team that is redefining the recruitment experience through innovative processes and a refreshing approach? Do you enjoy working side by side with the most talented team in the industry? Do you see yourself advising leaders on a wide range of people's topics? At Talento, our team embodies our values: advancement, dependability, responsibility, teamwork, and meritocracy. Our DNA is rooted in a culture that creates space for development, learning and growth while consistently exceeding customer experience standards. Become part of our team and reimagine your future as a pivotal resource to organizational success.
What makes Talento different in the recruiting solutions & human capital marketplace?
At Talento, you will have the opportunity to deliver a consultative hiring experience while learning and absorbing new business models, functions, industries and geographies. The quality of our proven methodology incorporates best practices and a high level of standards in research, outreach, screening, interview and calibration processes. In addition to strengthening your skillset, you will be exposed to leadership in some of the country’s most innovative companies. Business orientation separates Talento from the mass market. Whether partnering with a global Fortune 500 with 70k employees or a high growth e-commerce co
What you would be responsible for
Key Responsibilities
Recruitment Strategy & Execution
- Source, attract, and recruit high-caliber attorneys, paralegals, legal support staff, and contract professionals for temporary, temp-to-perm, and project-based assignments.
- Develop and execute targeted recruiting strategies to build a strong, diverse pipeline of qualified legal talent.
- Screen and interview candidates to assess experience, technical skills, cultural fit, and availability.
- Manage the end-to-end recruiting lifecycle, including candidate presentation, interview coordination, onboarding, start logistics, and assignment management.
- Ensure compliance with client requirements, background screening, document verification, and employment eligibility standards.
Business Development & Revenue Growth
- Generate and manage new staff augmentation opportunities by building and maintaining strong relationships with law firms, corporate legal departments, and legal service organizations.
- Partner closely with clients to understand staffing needs, project scope, timelines, budgets, and workforce strategies.
- Provide market insights, rate guidance, and recommendations on staffing models to support client decision-making.
- Actively pursue opportunities to expand client relationships, increase revenue, and grow market presence.
Client Relationship Management
- Serve as the primary point of contact for clients requiring temporary or contract legal staffing solutions.
- Deliver exceptional client service by managing expectations, deadlines, and service delivery quality.
- Conduct regular check-ins with clients and placed talent to ensure successful assignment execution and satisfaction.
- Uphold the highest standards of confidentiality, professionalism, and ethical conduct.
Market Research & Industry Awareness
- Stay informed on legal industry hiring trends, wage benchmarks, practice area demand, and market shifts impacting temporary staffing.
- Provide clients with informed guidance on compensation ranges, labor availability, and competitive market insight.
Required Qualifications:
- Proven experience in recruiting law firm partners or senior-level legal professionals, ideally within a search firm or legal recruitment agency.
- Strong business development and client relationship management skills.
- In-depth knowledge of the legal industry, including law firm structures, partnership models, and market dynamics.
- Exceptional communication and negotiation skills.
- Ability to manage multiple searches and customers simultaneously with a high degree of professionalism and attention to detail
- Ability to manage multiple searches and customers simultaneously with a high degree of professionalism and attention to detail.
Preferred Qualifications:
- A Juris Doctor (JD) or equivalent legal background is highly desirable but not mandatory.
- Existing network within the legal community, especially with law firm leadership.
- Track record of delivering successful search assignments for high-level legal professionals.
Key Competencies:
- Results-driven and self-motivated.
- Strong interpersonal and networking skills.
- Analytical thinker with excellent problem-solving capabilities.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced and target-driven environment.
The kind of people we work with embody some of these characteristics:
- Innovative, creative, and passionate about enabling businesses through talent acquisition.
- Pride in delivering quality work, every time with strong business acumen and abilities to learn, retain and apply learned concepts.
- Strong solutions mindset: Comfortable working in an environment which requires strong deliverables along with the ability to identify problems and drive appropriate actions; Highly organized and process oriented.
- Bias for action, strong work ethic, and desire to achieve excellence.
- Enthusiastic team player with a strong drive to ensure a positive work environment. Cares about others' success deeply.
- Agile; Can pivot priorities with ease while staying calm.
- The ability to be comfortable with high volume workload and not be afraid to “roll up your sleeves”.
- Relentless seeker of talent with a deep network who is driven by collaboration, learning, doing the right thing and quality human interaction.
- Personal alignment and belief in guiding ideas including Advancement | Dependability | Responsibility | Empowerment | Teamwork | Meritocracy
About TalentoHC:
TalentoHC is a high growth talent & organizational solutions firm. Through Talento Recruiting, we are transforming the customer experience standards in the recruiting services arena. The company was founded in 2017 with the belief that human capital should be viewed as an asset on the balance sheet. Through its integrated human capital services, the Talento team has supported 65+ enterprise, middle market and startup/high growth organizations in 15 countries with recruiting, contingent workforce management, employer branding, strategy, transformation, organization design & implementation, career pathing, outplacement, employer branding and leadership development solutions. Some of the benefits of working for Talento HC are as follows:
- Culture focused on advancing your career while disrupting an industry and providing unrivaled service; Rapid advancement and promotion opportunities based on merit
- Health, Dental, Vision & Pet Insurance, FSA, HSA, Short Term and Long-Term Disability Insurance
- 401k Retirement Plans
- Hybrid Work Environment
Talento envisions a world where the recruiting industry service model evolves into human capital partnership that drives organizational performance. Through trust and value, you are positioned to offer talent & organizational solutions that separate you from the rest. With 1000+ searches in the last 36 months, Talento Recruiting has established a footprint that it is ready to scale to the next level.
Our organization continues to thrive through our ongoing commitment to building an inclusive and diverse workforce from different backgrounds, perspectives and skills.
Talento Human Capital (HC) is an equal opportunity employer, people are at the center of what we do!
People + Passion + Perseverance = Progress