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First Counsel is a specialist recruitment consultancy focused exclusively on the recruitment of lawyers for the world's top law firms and businesses. We resource private practice and in-house lawyers, from partner level to junior roles. All of our team have worked as lawyers in leading firms, as consultants in legal recruitment businesses or as senior human resources professionals in law firms. We know the legal services market inside out – its different cultures, its changing trends and the qualities that define professional advantage in a uniquely dynamic and evolving environment.

In this time of profound realignment and reassessment in the legal services industry, our services provide clarity: clear focus, clear advantage, clear expertise. You won’t find our waters muddied by conflicting agendas and game-playing; for us, professionalism starts with the discretion that protects our candidates’ reputations at all costs. We are redefining professional representation for the most discerning lawyers by delivering a specialist, mature and highly experienced legal recruitment consultancy service that draws on collective expertise, deep-level insight - and our personal commitment to go further for every candidate and client in matching the right individual to the right role.

We provide the right representation: uncompromised in the integrity with which we operate for both candidate and client - and uncompromising in our determination to deliver a service that anticipates and interprets the needs of high-calibre lawyers in an increasingly competitive market. Unlike many of our peers in the recruitment industry, we’ve worked alongside the legal sector for many years; we have the expertise to work at a strategic level with both law firms or in-house legal teams considering a new hire or a new hiring strategy, and lawyers of all levels looking to begin, progress or change direction in their careers.

With our London and Sydney headquarters, our extensive international experience and our position as trusted partner to many long term clients, we have the focused experience and expertise to address your professional needs. With First Counsel, you can expect unbiased and truly professional advice and support, combined with the depth of experience and sector knowledge candidates and clients alike recommend us for.