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London has the most unique and developed legal market in the world. And here at Taylor Root we take pride in understanding its intricacies so that we can better serve its recruitment needs. Two specialist areas of our focus are West End and Niche practices, which often serve discrete markets and offer a different working culture to that of the City or International firms. Fr...

Taylor Root hosted their annual General Counsels in Technology breakfast chaired by Zoopla’s General Counsel Ned Staple, featuring Patricia Christias, Head of Legal for UK at Microsoft and Xavier Langlois, General Counsel at HighQ. As a self-proclaimed “skeptic,” Ned led the discussion with Xavier and Patricia sharing their own personal experiences whilst the General Counsel...

Chris is the Managing Partner of Maples and Calder (Jersey) LLP. He advises banks (and other specialist lenders) and corporates on commercial law issues and also has significant expertise in advising family office and philanthropic entities. Chris is also highly experienced in offshore listings, both on The International Stock Exchange and elsewhere. He joined Maples in 2018...

I was recently interviewed by the Law Society about the current landscape within legal in-house recruitment. In short, it’s good news. Recruitment activity within in-house is buoyant with a high number of good quality lawyers in supply. The highest demand is for lawyers with two to five years’ PQE, as organisations are opting to reassign lawyers when senior lawyers move on a...

The 2018 Global In-House Report is an overview of hiring trends from a variety of sources, from the local knowledge of experienced consultants to our regional salary guides through to general market sentiment derived from interviews with senior contacts. Below is an extract from the UK section. The full report contains market insights for Germany, Italy, the Middle East, Tur...

Taylor Root, part of The SR Group, has been recognised as one of the ‘Most Socially Engaged staffing agencies’ globally by LinkedIn. We are pleased to announce that we have, for the third year since its inception, been ranked in the top 25 Most Socially Engaged global recruitment businesses. From a list of over 38,000 recruitment businesses LinkedIn used complex analysis to ...