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Burgess Paluch Legal Recruitment

Burgess Paluch Legal Recruitment is an Australian legal recruitment agency placing lawyers and in-house counsel, with law firm HR consulting services.

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Burgess Paluch Legal Recruitment

Business Description

Burgess Paluch Legal Recruitment is a specialist legal recruitment agency based in Melbourne and Sydney, staffed by former lawyers. It places lawyers and in-house corporate counsel across Australia, New Zealand and international legal markets, from junior through partner level.

Additional services include outsourced law firm HR consulting, executive search for contract lawyers, and paralegal recruitment, with long-term career guidance for candidates.

Best for: law firms and businesses recruiting lawyers or in-house legal counsel.

Service & Expertise

Talent Acquisition and Recruitment

Professional and White Collar Recruitment

Burgess Paluch Legal Recruitment delivers Professional and White Collar Recruitment for the legal sector across Australia, placing lawyers from articled clerk to equity partner level from offices in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.

  • Clients include top tier firms, multinational corporates, boutique practices and government organisations, with briefs handled nationally (including Adelaide, Canberra, Perth and Darwin) and internationally in New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore, London and the Middle East.
  • All recruitment consultants are former lawyers; partner Belinda Fisher practised as an employment lawyer for 10 years at Carroll & O’Dea and HWL Ebsworth.
  • Contingency assignments carry no initial outlay, with generic unbranded advertising paid for by the firm, backed by a replacement guarantee and a database built to record specific aspects of legal experience.
  • Around half of the lawyers on its database arrive by referral from colleagues or clients, the firm’s stated indicator of candidate and client satisfaction.

Best for: law firms and in-house legal teams hiring lawyers, in-house counsel or company secretaries who want consultants with legal practice backgrounds.

Talent Acquisition and Recruitment

Executive Search

Burgess Paluch Legal Recruitment provides Executive Search and Headhunting for partner level, practice acquisition and senior corporate legal roles from Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.

  • Retained search fees are structured on a 1/3, 1/3, 1/3 basis, with the option to unbundle search functions charged at hourly rates.
  • Searches combine a legal database built for the purpose with targeted approaches to passive candidates, supported by advertising in Lawyers Weekly, The Financial Review and Seek.
  • Conflict limits are disclosed up front, flagging markets where the existing client list precludes effective search.

Best for: law firms and corporates appointing partners or senior legal executives via a retained search.

Operational Coverage

  • ACT (Hybrid) Local presence: Staff based locally
  • External Territories such as Australian Antarctic Territory, Christmas Island, and the Cocos Islands (Hybrid) Local presence: Staff based locally
  • New South Wales (Hybrid) Local presence: Staff based locally 2 Chifley Square, Sydney, NSW, 2000
  • Tasmania (Hybrid) Local presence: Staff based locally
  • Victoria (Hybrid) Local presence: Staff based locally
  • Western Australia (Hybrid) Local presence: Staff based locally

Industry

Industry Experience

Professional, Scientific and Technical Services

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