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People led and tech-driven, BCL Legal's intelligent recruiting assures the highest quality legal professionals and job roles

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Our discipline and location-specific teams live and breathe their respective markets. Whether you're a trainee solicitor, paralegal or partner, BCL Legal helps to clarify and manage your job seeking requirements and career ambitions. We'll find you what you're looking for.

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Effective hiring goes far beyond filling a job role. Successful recruiting puts its emphasis on people, quality and speed. We operate with unrivalled insight through our discipline and location-specific teams and using integrated technology, we match the right people to your business.

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Our average Candidate Net Promoter Score (NPS) is 82

90% of lawyers who move are registered with BCL

97% of BCL-placed lawyers stay with the business for over a year

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I found BCL to be fast, knowledgeable and professional. The overall outcome of this recruitment exercise was very successful. I have no doubt we will use BCL's services again in future.
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Exceptionally knowledgeable, professional and personable while helping me find the right role.
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BCL provides an extremely professional service. They take great care to match the potential recruit with my firm and as a consequence those who they put forward are appropriate.
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Annual Legal Update for In-House Lawyers with Pannone Corporate

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Manchester

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In-House Lawyer Autumn Seminar with Browne Jacobson, Birmingham

Birmingham

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