Specialized legal search delivered your way
Permanent hires, interim solutions, or expert advice - my services are designed to meet your unique legal needs with precision and efficiency.
Permanent recruitment
Permanent hiring takes more than matching skills to a role. It requires alignment with your culture, your way of working and the direction of the team. I help clients hire people who add value from the outset — across both established legal roles and the newer positions shaping legal operations, innovation and AI.
In-depth vetting for both skills and character
Long-term alignment with your goals
Candidates prepared to step in and lead
Interim solutions
A lawyer or legal counsel for a defined period: cover during leave, a project, a first General Counsel or a fractional General Counsel. I work across two types of interim assignments:
Interim legal: lawyers, candidate civil-law notaries and in-house counsel who step in for a defined period, from mid-level to General Counsel.
Interim legal innovation: legal operations professionals, legal engineers and project leads for contract management, legal tech and AI.
For both: one rate, the professional's hourly rate plus 15%, and contracts based on the Dutch Tax Administration's approved model agreement.
Advisory & role design
Every strong search starts before the search itself. First, the role needs to be clear: what are you really looking for, how should the role be positioned, and what makes the proposition attractive to the market? That applies to established legal roles as well, but it is often even more pronounced in legal innovation, operations and AI-related hires. I help clients sharpen both role and proposition before going to market, drawing on sector knowledge and hands-on experience with both legal search and interim assignments.
Role scoping for legal innovation and operations hires
Advice on search strategy, positioning and process
Practical input based on experience inside legal organisations
Finding talent isn’t a guessing game - it’s a strategic process
From understanding your goals to ensuring a seamless transition, my process is built for precision and long-term success.
Discovery
I analyze your goals and challenges to refine your vision, creating a clear and compelling role description with key responsibilities and competencies.
Research & Outreach
Leveraging my network and industry insights, I identify and approach potential candidates to test their interest in the role.
Engagement & evaluation
I engage them and conduct interviews to evaluate their alignment with your needs and narrow the field to the strongest contenders.
Presentation & Feedback
I deliver a curated shortlist, detailed evaluations, and I facilitate client interviews, providing insights to ensure confident hiring decisions.
Offer & Support
From extending offers and guiding negotiations to ensuring smooth onboarding, I provide hands-on guidance for success.
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Frequently asked questions
Every search is unique. A partner position requires a different approach than a (medior) legal counsel, and interim roles differ from permanent hires. I tailor my approach to each client while working within a structured framework to ensure an efficient and targeted search.
Yes. Alongside traditional legal hiring, I also work on newer roles emerging within the legal sector, including Legal Innovation Managers, Legal Operations professionals, Knowledge & Innovation lawyers, Legal Engineers, and professionals helping legal teams implement AI in practice. I work on both permanent and interim assignments in this space; for interim assignments, see the Interim page.
As fast as possible, as long as necessary. The timeline depends on the role, the market and the specific requirements of my client. For interim assignments you usually have a shortlist within a week. For permanent roles, I take the time needed to ensure the right match, without compromising on quality. In the initial phase, I provide a realistic estimate of the process and expected timeline.
Legal is my core focus, and that remains the case — including the closely related compliance domain, where the work and networks overlap naturally. Occasionally I am also engaged for senior roles in other adjacent professional services where my structured, sector-aware approach fits, though that is not the core of my practice.
