Footprintlegal is a specialist legal recruitment agency that offers an attentive, professional and high quality service. Rather than being a faceless organisation, Footprintlegal offers a more personalised touch and, as former practising lawyers, we understand the market in which you work.

With experience from FTSE100 global recruitment consultancies and boutique partner-level search and selection agencies, we bring together the best of both worlds under one roof.

Given our valuable market knowledge and connections in key jurisdictions across the globe, we are best placed to offer consultative advice on recruitment strategy for clients and on the next-step for career minded lawyers.

Giorgia Naccarato
Giorgia read Law at the University of Naples and qualified as an Italian lawyer in 2001. She worked as a lawyer in the Rome offices of Baker & McKenzie and Watson Farley & Williams before relocating to London and becoming a specialist legal recruiter. Since then Giorgia has successfully placed lawyers with law firms, banks and corporations across Europe.

Gary Youssef

Gary read Law at the University of Bristol, which included one year as an exchange student at the University of Goettingen, Germany. He trained at the London office of SJ Berwin and qualified as an English lawyer in 2000. He then joined Olswang. Gary moved into specialist legal recruitment in 2001 and has placed lawyers with law firms in the Middle East, Europe and ‘offshore’ jurisdictions.

For Lawyers
It is our job to help you find the best opportunity and to make any move as stress-free as possible. The service we provide depends on your particular requirements but might include for junior lawyers advising on CV drafting and interview preparation or, for more senior level lawyers in private practice, business plan drafting.

The depth of the relationship recruiters have with clients varies greatly. Our connections go beyond the HR departments to encompass heads of department, law firm managing partners and heads of in-house legal teams. You can be confident we will be speaking with the key decision makers when negotiating the best possible package on your behalf.

With our consultants’ personal experience of living and working in overseas jurisdictions, we are able to offer you a global perspective on your career. Our expertise covers Europe, the Middle East and ‘offshore’ jurisdictions. Through a combination of market intelligence and experience, we can introduce you to a broad spectrum of roles at international and local law firms, corporations and banks.

We will take on much of the administrative burden of the recruitment process. So as not to compromise your current position, we are contactable outside normal working hours, on week days or weekends.

We will offer you constructive advice to help you identify any issues at an early stage and, in so doing, will ensure the most suitable opportunity is found for you.

For Law Firms/In-house
We offer a consultative, practical solution to your recruitment needs, using methods that vary depending upon your specific requirements. We will take the time to understand those needs as well as the culture of your organisation. Through the personal reputations we have built up in our key markets, we have access to the best lawyers - we are constantly recommended by lawyers we have worked with in the past. We offer a straightforward recruitment selection package or can combine this with search, undertaking more in-depth research of the legal market.

We will find the right lawyer for the position and as part of this we will not present an individual to you unless we have interviewed them and discussed their capabilities and goals.

We can also assist with mergers from initial advice on possible merger partners, through approaching potential target law firms to finalising the negotiations.