Legal Recruiting Assistant Job at Thrive Legal Search, Longview, TX

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  • Thrive Legal Search
  • Longview, TX

Job Description

Job Description

Location: Fully Remote from the Dallas-Fort Worth Metro Area or Tyler/Longview/Texarkana Area

Type: Full-time (will consider Part-time)

Reports to: Founder / Principal Recruiter

About the Role

We are a boutique legal recruiting firm based in Dallas, Texas, and we place attorneys with law firms across Texas and beyond. We are seeking a detail-oriented, highly organized Legal Recruiting Assistant to support core recruiting operations, sourcing, and candidate management. The candidate MUST be based in Texas--ideally in DFW or northeast Texas (Longview/Tyler/Texarkana area).

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys building structure behind the scenes, working in LinkedIn Recruiter daily, and helping a recruiting practice run efficiently and professionally.

Core Responsibilities

Market Mapping & Intelligence

  • Create, update, and maintain market maps by practice area and Texas market
  • Track firms, practice groups, headcount trends, and key attorney movement
  • Ensure data accuracy and consistency across market-mapping documents

LinkedIn Recruiter Projects & Pipelines

  • Create and maintain LinkedIn Recruiter projects
  • Organize candidates by search, stage, and priority
  • Keep pipelines clean, current, and searchable
  • Tag and categorize candidates for long-term sourcing efforts

LinkedIn Job Postings & Initial Outreach

  • Draft, post, and manage LinkedIn job postings
  • Conduct initial outreach to prospective candidates
  • Coordinate scheduling of introductory calls/interviews
  • Track responses and follow-ups to ensure no candidate falls through the cracks

Research & Sourcing Support

  • Research attorneys and prospects for active and future searches
  • Identify candidates based on firm, practice area, geography, and experience level
  • Support proactive sourcing and pipeline development

Contact Management & Follow-Up

  • Maintain accurate contact records in the ATS and Google Sheets
  • Assist with follow-up messaging and outreach sequences
  • Help ensure consistent, professional communication with candidates

Required Experience & Skills

Experience

  • 2+ years of experience working in a recruiting, staffing, or talent-focused role
  • Hands-on experience with:
  • LinkedIn Recruiter
  • Google Sheets & Google Drive
  • Dripify
  • A recruiting ATS (law firm or professional services experience is a plus)

Skills

  • Highly organized with strong attention to detail
  • Comfortable managing multiple projects and pipelines simultaneously
  • Strong written communication skills
  • Ability to work independently and proactively
  • Tech-savvy and comfortable learning new tools and workflows

Strongly Preferred

  • Legal industry or professional services recruiting experience
  • Familiarity with Texas legal markets

What We Offer

  • Flexible work environment - fully remote with ability to meet in person weekly for first 90 days and then monthly
  • Direct exposure to legal recruiting strategy and market intelligence
  • Opportunity to grow with a boutique recruiting firm
  • Collaborative, professional, and respectful work culture

Job Tags

Full time, Part time, Remote work, Flexible hours,

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