Assisting a leading personal injury specialist to develop and scale up their Scottish pursuer practice across Edinburgh and Glasgow
A leading personal injury specialist (headquartered in England) approached BCL Legal with an ongoing requirement to develop and scale up their Scottish pursuer practice across both Edinburgh and Glasgow. This included consulting and advising on the Scottish legal market, along with benchmarking a number of roles from NQ Solicitors to Associates, as well as securing a number of key hires for the firms newly opened Glasgow office.
The firm required several hires across their Glasgow and Edinburgh offices- including several strategic hires such as a Deputy Head of Legal and Operations Manager- qualified solicitors, experienced fee earners and paralegals. The roles needed to be filled in a timely manner in order to keep pace with the firm’s comprehensive growth and office expansion plans.
BCL Legal executed a tailored recruitment campaign:
- A highly coordinated approach to benchmark salaries and benefits packages across several key competitors in the central belt personal injury market.
- Leveraging BCL Legal’s national candidate database and regional expertise to identify high-quality legal professionals with relevant litigation experience.
- Candidates were thoroughly screened not just for technical capability, attention to detail, people management experience and the ability to operate within a structured, high-pressure environment.
- All candidate engagement was handled with full confidentiality, respecting the client’s brand and internal processes while promoting the opportunity in a discreet way.
- Monthly ongoing recruitment updates, with Senior HR and Operational Managers, were scheduled to provided candidate/market feedback as well as coordinate on on-boarding and interview schedules.
Results:
- Five key hires have been successfully recruited across both the Edinburgh and Glasgow offices- NQ to Deputy Head of Legal.
- All hires were successfully managed and executed with the upmost awareness of both clients and candidates expectations.
- The firm have successfully expanded with a new Glasgow office and is currently considering expanding the central Edinburgh office to accommodate a future growth strategy.
