Established expertise

BCL Legal's success is a testament to strong vision and values, our team, and the long-term relationships we’ve built with law firms, companies and lawyers across the UK

National scale, local knowledge

BCL Legal consultants live and breathe their respective markets and locations. You can rely on their local knowledge to offer you insightful and practical solutions

BCL process

We use an ingrained BCL method to match our people to your people. Our work goes far beyond filling a job role; our approach respects the bigger picture, including organisational cultures and business goals

Market-leading technology

We use patent-pending machine learning technology to bolster our consultants' specialist and local knowledge. It’s our people that lead our recruitment solutions and our tech that accelerates delivery

The UK's most trusted legal recruiter

With over 500 years of combined experience

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Overcoming fierce competition with a new office opening

Langleys, a UK leading law firm based in York, has recently opened a defendant insurance office in central Manchester - headed up by fraud partner, Peter Oakes.

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DWF and BCL Legal: working in unison

DWF, a global legal business, with over 27 key locations and over 3,100 employees hosted an agent briefing for consultative advice and assistance recruiting for their complex injury team.

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Fast growing Cheshire Tech Company

After a slow-moving recruitment process to grow its legal team, this Cheshire Tech Company's General Counsel instructed BCL Legal's in-house team. After introducing two credible and suitable lawyers, the company hired both.

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International search pool: Samsung

After several months searching for an antitrust lawyer through direct campaigns and utilising other legal recruiters, Samsung instructed BCL Legal.

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High-volume recruiting: MyHomeMove Case Study

In 2013, BCLs dedicated property team was instructed to assist in MyHomeMove’s national growth and continued expansion, including fee-earning and non-fee earning roles.

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Specialist-sector recruiting: Anthony Collins Solicitors

Over the last two years, ACS has had interesting and complex roles within the Commercial, Corporate Litigation and Property teams and approached BCL Legal to help.

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In-house tailored client campaign: Milliken

BCL Legal placed the previous Regional Legal Counsel, Europe in 2012 who worked for the company for six years. Following a successful period of employment, during which they established the European legal function, the previous incumbent was ready to move on and found a new role elsewhere.

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Quality matching requires a quality shortlist

From a process perspective, intelligent recruiting affirms cost-effective time-saving (yours, not ours). That's why we work hard to deliver high-quality shortlists, every time.

Let us do the hiring hard yards so you can focus on the on-boarding.

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The UK's largest legal professional database

The preliminary stages of intelligent recruiting demand an established and up-to-date database. BCL Legal’s boasts almost every UK lawyer and over 50,000 paralegals.

Tech-driven solutions

We've always been invested in and committed to market-leading technology; our patent-pending machine learning propels quality, accuracy and delivery time.

Upcoming Events

October 17, 2023

Managing your Contracts Life Cycle, In-house seminar with BCL Legal and Addleshaw Goddard

Manchester

A look at how to refresh your approach to contacting with practical tools and guidance from Addleshaw Goddard's Commercial Law experts.

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October 10, 2023

Contract Law Update with Ward Hadaway

Manchester

Please join us and our newest In-house seminar partner, Ward Hadaway, for a half day event where Professor Ewan McKendrick KC will be presenting a Contract Law Update

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October 5, 2023

Legal Update with BCL Legal & Browne Jacobson

Manchester

Browne Jacobson's experts will be updating us on essential skills and updates that all of us will need to be aware of over the next 6 months . These include ESG and social mobility, AI and financial crime compliance.

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