Senior Recruiter for junior through senior levels of hiring needs, particularly for law firms and early-stage tech companies, nationally. My 25 years of attorney recruiting experience led to forming my own recruiting firm to serve valuable longtime clients and candidates as well as develop new relationships. Train and manage attorney recruiters and business development associates. (This role has overlapped with other roles without conflict.)

LiveSwitch is a global early-stage real-time communications platform. My role focused on enterprise sales, investor relations, and recruitment with a primary focus on driving organizational growth. Clients include the NBA, NFL, NASA, MLB, WWE, and Adobe. The founder and chairman is Brian Hamilton, philanthropist and tech entrepreneur, who grew a previous venture from his concept on a cocktail napkin to what is now a billion-dollar company.

Traditionally and creatively sourced and recruited passive attorney candidates for mid-sized and large law firms; successfully placed an associate attorney in under 90 days.

Led the recruitment of attorneys and paralegals for a national litigation boutique law firm. Initiated and implemented processes and technology tools to improve the recruitment process, candidate experience, and internal communication among hiring partners. Served as business lead for spinoff tech start-up (pre-launch), including recruitment, strategy, and business development within the legal market. Focused heavily on Data Privacy, Data Security, Class Action Litigation, Civil Litigation, and Medical Malpractice.

Recruited attorneys, legal software/SaaS/eDiscovery sales account directors, operations consultants, analysts, project managers, and engineers internally for a billion-dollar, global, legal software & legal services company. Focused heavily on eDiscovery, Information Governance, and Data Privacy, Data Security, and Legal Operations. Managed the entire recruitment process, including posting and distributing the job requisitions among social media channels and professional networks, building candidate pipelines, sourcing candidates, screening and interviewing candidates, presenting candidates to hiring managers, scheduling interviews, and gathering and assessing feedback from interviewers and candidates. Worked with HR and hiring managers to put together offer details, extended offers, and provided process guidance during onboarding. Continuously sourced candidates using creative sourcing techniques to penetrate this challenging market, used recruitment technology tools, social media, and personal and professional networks, created pipelines, cold called, formed relationships, leveraged warm leads, networked both internally and externally. Met regularly with hiring managers to inform them of the company hiring process, discussed intake details for new requisitions, and shared insight on market trends and forecasting. Led corporate DEI strategy task force within the recruitment team, including researching best practices, attending webinars and trainings outside the company, as well as devising and presenting short-term and long-term DEI recruitment strategies to the team.

In 2018, Brian Hamilton sold his successful financial software company, Sageworks, after 20 years, and started a new private foundation, called the Brian Hamilton Foundation, with the mission of helping people achieve entrepreneurial success, regardless of their education or background. Joined the organization when Brian Hamilton invited several former Sageworks employees to form and build the Brian Hamilton Foundation. Networked with universities and businesses and special interest groups to create a pipeline of referrals to passive candidates. Created job postings, sourced, screened, interviewed, and on-boarded candidates.

Won the Maryland Comptroller's award for "Best Chicken Sandwich" among all Maryland independent restaurants. Formed the legal entity in compliance with legal and insurance regulations, recruited and scheduled staff, created and executed marketing campaigns, and liaised with vendors for new restaurant, which my co-owner ran. My role was strictly part-time while I pursued my full-time recruiting career. Closed the business in 2019.

Hired as employee #20 for the country's first fintech/financial software/SaaS company. Served as in-house Corporate Recruiter for the start-up and and tripled the size of the company within one year through strategic recruitment efforts, particularly in the software sales department and the software engineer/development department. Networked with universities and businesses and special interest groups to create a pipeline of referrals to passive candidates. Created job postings, sourced, screened, interviewed, and on-boarded candidates. Continued to work either as a full-time employee or part-time contractor for the company's recruiting initiatives (overlapping without conflict with other roles) until its sale to a private equity company in 2018.

Worked as an agency Legal Recruitment Director focused on law firms of all sizes throughout the U.S.; trained and managed direct reports; developed relationships with law firm internal recruiters and hiring partners as well as attorney candidates, both associates and partners; placed lateral attorneys by managing the entire process from cold call to close. Worked as a full-time employee and as a part-time contractor for the agency during this tenure. This role overlapped with other roles without conflicts.

Served as the in-house corporate Recruitment Manager within the Legal Department and the Compliance Department; oversaw and managed legal recruiters, set strategic recruitment goals, and reported recruitment analyses to the Director and VP.

Taught college freshmen and sophomores in intensive writing classes in order to pursue a personal passion for grammar on a very part-time basis to fuel my passion for writing, one course per semester.

Worked as an agency Legal Recruitment Manager focused on attorney placement for law firms and in-house corporate legal departments; formed relationships with new clients and candidates and procured significant contracts; managed the entire recruiting process to facilitate both client and candidate introductions, interviews, offers, and on-boarding; hired and trained direct reports; placed attorneys from around the globe.

Worked as an agency Legal Recruiter, primarily for AmLaw 100 & 200 associates in Washington, DC; developed relationships with both law firm recruiters and attorneys; placed attorneys and managed the entire recruiting process from obtaining the job orders to sourcing the candidates to closing and negotiating the offers.