First Counsel is a boutique specialist legal recruitment consultancy, focused exclusively on the recruitment of lawyers for the world's top firms and businesses. Based in the City of London, we are focused on pioneering a new standard of expert service that is utterly attuned to the calibre of discerning legal talent we serve. We offer a full range of partner-level, private practice and in-house legal roles across London, the regions and internationally. We deal with highly qualified professionals in a tightly interwoven sector; because of this, we take the utmost care with your professional reputation - delivering an exceptionally poised and insightful one-to-one service that looks deeper at the potential of every candidate. We provide the right representation for like-minded lawyers who understand the advantage of a mature, specialist service in an ever-more competitive legal landscape. As the trusted experts for many long term clients, we have the expertise and the drive to go further in matching lawyers to the role and culture that is perfectly right for their skills, experience and aspirations. Our private practice team is specialist in legal recruitment in London. The team places assistants, associates, PSLs and partner candidates. Our in-house team acts for a range of UK and international companies throughout the UK, assisting lawyers from entry-point to General Counsel.