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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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97% of BCL-placed lawyers stay with the business for over a year

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BCL was very selective with the interviews arranged, appreciating that with time constraints we were focused on interviewing only the highest quality candidates with a very close fit.
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BCL Legal is our preferred supplier. I have worked with them on vacancies at all of our UK offices. I am consistently impressed by their knowledge and understanding of our business.
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BCL has placed all four members of our legal team and the service has always been first class. Showing great flexibility in working with us and always supplying a number of high-quality candidates.
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