Ortolan Connect Law

What is Ortolan Connect Law?

Ortolan Connect Law is our fixed fee legal recruitment service, helping law firms and businesses to recruit high-quality lawyers. Unlike traditional agencies that might charge you 25% or more of salary as their fee, with Ortolan Connect Law you pay a fixed fee of £1,200. Our clients include law firms and businesses with in-house legal teams.

We have a strong understanding of the legal sector. Our fast-growing sister company, Ortolan Legal, is a commercial law firm, authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. Its experienced solicitors specialise in corporate & commercial, employment law, dispute resolution, commercial property and insolvency. We benefit from access to their expert knowledge which, combined with our recruitment expertise at Ortolan People, enables us to recruit great lawyers. Our selection and assessment of candidates for you is informed by specialists who really know what you are looking for and understand how to identify candidates with the right attributes and experience for your position. We can not only judge whether a lawyer has the required technical skills and experience, but can also assess those other particular requirements which vary from position to position.

What's included in our £1,200 fixed fee?

Create the job advert

We will take the time to understand your business culture and the specialist skills you are seeking. Working closely with you, we will draft a person specification, job description and job advert.

Source candidates

Your advert will be posted on specialist legal job boards for 28 days. These sites currently include The Lawyer, Legal Week and Legal Prospects. In addition, your ad will be posted on most of the major job boards including LinkedIn, Indeed and Jobsite. We buy job credits in bulk, passing the savings on to our clients. We will also conduct a comprehensive search of the UK’s largest candidate databases, giving us access to over 7 million CVs.

Review applicants

We read every CV and only send you those that match your requirements. All applications will be reviewed by solicitors who have both private practice and in-house experience. We politely decline all the others.

Interview and hire

You choose who you want to interview from the CVs that we send to you. You can hire as many as you like for the same fixed fee.

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Additional Services

We understand that every client’s needs are different. We offer the following additional services at a bespoke price:

Telephone Interviews
Aptitude Testing
Reference Checking

Contact Us

If you would like to discuss how Ortolan People can help your business recruit excellent lawyers, contact us.

Email us now Or call 020 3743 0600

Hope started operating in 2013 and we had a lot of positions that we needed to fill. We initially relied on recruitment agencies and did a little bit of our own direct advertising, but wanted to explore more cost effective recruitment methods. We decided to try some “e-recruiters” to see how they could help. Ortolan were by far the best and also the most cost effective of the suppliers that we tried and we now ask for their help with virtually all of our external recruitment needs, because they provide a very personal and tailored service, have people, rather than computers, working on their candidate searches and short lists. Using Ortolan has significantly reduced our expenditure on attracting candidates, but has also meant that we have had a much broader range of people applying to work for us than before. I’d highly recommend trying Ortolan to see how they can help you.
Peter Spargo, HR Manager, Hope Construction Materials Ltd

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Meet the Team

Nick Benson I am a solicitor who – as well as having had a 10…
Nick Benson
Chief Executive

I am a solicitor who – as well as having had a 10 year career as a British Army officer – has also run a number of successful businesses. I have worked in large law firms, small start-up businesses and have been the CEO of a NASDAQ listed international leisure company. Drawing on this broad base of experience I co-founded Ortolan Group in 2007, driven by the opportunity to provide innovative and high quality recruitment services at a sensible price point. Today I help to manage the business and also spend a lot of time working as a solicitor with our sister company, Ortolan Legal. Because of my background, I tend to lead on all of our legal recruitment work. I occupy my spare time raising Tamworth pigs and flying.
Cindy Parry Having spent most of my working life in Recruitment…
Cindy Parry
Senior Consultant

Having spent most of my working life in Recruitment and HR, I sold my successful Recruitment Business in 2009 to a large national High Street agency. Having missed the recruitment industry too much to stay away! I joined Ortolan in 2013 and I now head up their Permanent Recruitment Division. I live in Cheshire with my husband and unruly pack of 4 very large dogs, and as I don’t work Mondays love to spend long weekends out and about in the countryside with the dogs, and ever so occasionally shopping for handbags and shoes!
Jane Johnstone After attaining an engineering degree and working…
Jane Johnstone
Senior Consultant

After attaining an engineering degree and working for British Gas designing distribution systems, I had a change of career and joined British Aerospace as a computer programmer. I then spent twenty years working for major IT solutions vendors in a range of roles (product and sales support, professional services, technical management), before I had my next change of career into recruitment in 2008, when I moved from South East to Derbyshire. In my spare time I like to explore the Peak District, then reward myself with a pub lunch!

Ortolan Connect Law

What is Ortolan Connect Law?