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Our discipline and location-specific teams live and breathe their respective markets. Whether you're a trainee solicitor, paralegal or partner, BCL Legal helps to clarify and manage your job seeking requirements and career ambitions. We'll find you what you're looking for.

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Effective hiring goes far beyond filling a job role. Successful recruiting puts its emphasis on people, quality and speed. We operate with unrivalled insight through our discipline and location-specific teams and using integrated technology, we match the right people to your business.

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Our average Candidate Net Promoter Score (NPS) is 82

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Exceptionally knowledgeable, professional and personable while helping me find the right role.
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Solicitor, Osborne Clark
Mark Levine is extremely knowledgeable in relation to in-house roles. He didn’t just ask me what I needed - he analysed the role, the work, my company – it was a full but carefully constructed analysis. When he finds candidates he then explains how they might fit, the areas that might not work and then how they might view the company. This is very important as lawyers will often have different views of companies when compared to law firms. Mark has managed to find candidates when others have failed.
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General Counsel, Together Money
BCL has extensive knowledge of the market and takes great care in placing candidates in the right role and firm. They are patient and supportive and in addition very good at their jobs.
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April 14, 2026

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Contract Update with Jonathan Davey, Addleshaw Goddard Leeds

Leeds

Join us for Jonathan Davey's annual Contract Update Event where he will be looking at key cases from the past 12-18 months, drawing out drafting and practical points with the aim of leaving everyone with something to take back to their desks and use in practice.

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