Legal Jobs and Appointments in Ireland

Last updated on December 8th.

Abacus Professional Recruitment established in 2003, specializes in Legal Recruitment for the Northern Irish market and has also assisted with roles in Ireland, London and Middle East. The main objective of the site is to introduce job and career enhancing opportunities to individuals and confidentially promotes individual jobseekers to prospect companies.

Abrivia are a wholly owned Irish recruitment consultancy based in the heart of Dublin's business district. It's co-founders have over 20 years recruitment expertise in the Irish recruitment market. Abrivia Legal is headed by Eamonn O'Reilly, Dip HRM MIATI (Founding Director) who has extensive legal recruitment experience and contacts within the Irish market.

Blueprint Legal Appointments works in legal recruitment throughout Ireland, North and South, recruiting both professional and support staff at all levels, from Partner to Para-Legal,Trainee Solicitor to Senior Secretary. Permanent, locum and temporary appointments are catered for.

BrightWater is a niche Irish Recruitment firm with expertise in recruiting for senior legal professionals up to partner level for law firms and blue chip clients across all industry sectors in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. They have solid relationships with the Top Tier firms. They sponsor and have strong links with the major legal professional bodies.

Careerjet is an employment search engine for Ireland. It allows you to search a growing selection of jobs listed on company sites as well as jobsites in one go saving you the trouble of having to go to each site individually.

Garfield Robbins operates internationally. You can browse the jobs under different categories of legal specialisation. The partners and consultants are all qualified lawyers.

Garrett McCarroll Knowles (gmk) is a legal recruitment company specialising in the placement of lawyers at all levels, from newly qualified to partner, predominantly in private practice. Founded in 1998, they place lawyers in London and the South East, as well as other major cities in the UK, Europe and the Middle East. They also cover the entire Asian market through Law Alliance, an associate office in Hong Kong.

gradireland.com has a section for law and you can find careers advice and jobs available.

HRM Recruitment Group is one of Ireland's leading professional recruitment consultancies, specialising in the placement of candidates in permanent, contract, temporary and interim positions with clients throughout the country and overseas. There are 8 specialist divisions of which one is legal recruitment.

Keane Mcdonald is an executive search and selection firm based in Dublin, focusing exclusively on legal appointments. They specialise in the recruitment of executive legal professionals into private practice law firms and in-house organisations located in Ireland, UK, USA, the Middle East and Asia, as well as those located in offshore jurisdictions. They source Lawyers at all levels from recently qualified up to Partner and Board level.

Laurence Simons - International Legal Recruitment. They seem to have a lot of jobs around the world.

Law Society of Ireland provides a section for available positions for solicitors and other legal staff, updated on a regular basis (take the "careers" option in the left hand section). Members of the Law Society can also add their details to a Jobs Register and access a Career Support service.

Lex Consultancy is a recruitment company which operates in a specialised niche market, offering a full recruitment service for all levels of legal staff within both private practice and corporate entities in Ireland. Lex Consultancy has extensive experience in the sourcing and recruitment of legal staff in Ireland.

MAKO Search is an expert legal and tax search consultancy and recruitment firm. They provide executive level recruitment services to law firms, corporations and financial organisations globally. Their industry experience and network of contacts gives them a unique perspective on trends and developments within the legal market. They are above all confidential and committed to ensuring that organisations and individuals reach their potential.

Meghen Group specialises in recruiting solicitors and partners for practice and industry. As a leading legal recruitment consultancy based in Dublin, with an experienced barrister among its consultants, its reputation for professionalism and discretion is unsurpassed. A responsive approach to each individual candidate and a close relationship with Top Tier Practices ensures a consistently excellent standard of recruitment.

Newman Chase is a recruitment company based in Dublin and in Toronto, Canada, servicing professional groups, and starting now to offer legal jobs.

Osborne Recruitment, formed in 1996 by Lesley Osborne, is a leading agency for both professional and non professional legal staff and they deal with all of the significant firms in Dublin and many countrywide.

PSD is an international recruitment organisation with various areas of specialisation including the law.

Recruit Legal is a jobs portal for employers to advertise their vacancies. Replies from an applicant go direct to the firm concerned; the company does not get between the firm and the applicant.

Rescon Limited, based in Dublin, is a highly regarded recruitment company with an extensive database of experienced candidates and contractors in the market. The legal appointments can be found under the "executive" option.

RFC Recruitment Group specialises in the recruitment of professional and management level personnel throughout Ireland. There is a good-sized section of legal jobs. There are no charges for job-seekers and various free services are provided to them like automatic notification by email of new jobs.

Robert Walters is a leading global specialist recruitment company with 35 offices in 15 countries. The Dublin legal division provides a high quality pro-active and professional service focusing on permanent and contract legal recruitment from both a private practice and in-house markets perspective.

Stelfox, based in Dublin, is one of the fastest growing recruitment agencies in the country with an ever expanding client and candidate database. The legal section recruits lawyers at all levels, from newly qualified to partner level, as well as support staff, including Legal Executives, Legal Secretaries and Personal Assistants. They have placed candidates in top tier firms and In House positions and as far North as Donegal and South as far as Cork.

Solv Legal Recruitment is a specialist recruitment company based in Dublin servicing the legal profession and other professional groups. They work across all areas of Private Practice, Commerce & Industry.

The Legal Panel, based in Dublin, is an associate company of The IFSC/Accountants Panel, which was set up in 1987. The Legal Panel focuses on the recruitment of Newly Qualified to Partner level roles predominantly in Private Practice and Financial Services companies. Consultants are fully trained and have an extensive knowledge of the Legal sector and their recruitment practices.

The Recruitment Business (Ireland) Ltd specialise in the provision of Financial and Legal professionals to the Irish Corporate (including professionals practices) sector. It was established in 1989. Clients include the most dynamic practices in Dublin as well as the large corporate and innovative technology and communications companies. The company have been behind some of the highest profile moves in the legal sector in Ireland over the last few years but this is not always known, since they are particularly careful to keep their clients' business to themselves.