BUILT FOR LAWYERS

    Recruit lawyers without reducing people to keywords.

    Laidback turns one corporate associate brief into an evidence-backed search, a calibrated shortlist and research-led outreach, all reviewed by your team.

    Review it on your role

    THE BRIEF KEEPS THESE FIXED

    Bar and jurisdiction
    Practice area
    Matter and client context
    Confidential outreach

    Laidback surfaces evidence for review. It does not turn a public source into an automatic legal or hiring decision.

    The title is only the beginning.

    Practice fit is a combination of jurisdiction, matters, clients and seniority that a title alone cannot express.

    Bar and jurisdiction

    The requirement stays explicit through search, scoring and review instead of disappearing into a keyword query.

    Practice area

    The requirement stays explicit through search, scoring and review instead of disappearing into a keyword query.

    Matter and client context

    The requirement stays explicit through search, scoring and review instead of disappearing into a keyword query.

    Confidential outreach

    The requirement stays explicit through search, scoring and review instead of disappearing into a keyword query.

    From corporate associate brief to a shortlist you can defend.

    Your team sets the bar. Laidback does the research, asks the calibration question and brings back evidence before any outreach leaves the building.

    #lawyer-search

    M

    Hiring team

    We need a corporate associate. Bar and jurisdiction, Practice area.

    L

    Laidback

    I will keep those fixed, expand the surrounding intent and show the evidence behind every match. Should I prioritise trajectory when two candidates meet the same bar?

    M

    Hiring team

    Yes. Keep outreach for review.

    MATCH 01

    Evidence-backed profile

    92

    Professional records

    Source attached for human review

    Published matters

    Source attached for human review

    Writing and speaking

    Source attached for human review

    Firm history

    Source attached for human review

    Research-led outreach draftAwaiting approval

    Different data finds different people.

    For lawyers, Laidback reads the work and context around a profile, not just the words someone typed into it.

    One brief becomes a search map

    Titles, synonyms, adjacent paths, locations and proof sources run in parallel. The hard criteria stay fixed.

    Professional recordsSOURCE 01
    Published mattersSOURCE 02
    Writing and speakingSOURCE 03
    Firm historySOURCE 04

    The whole top of funnel, with a human at the decision points.

    Laidback is not another search box. It works alongside your team in Slack, moving the research and follow-through while people keep the judgment.

    Calibrate the whole brief

    Change seniority, market or scope and Laidback re-derives the complete intent.

    Search beyond one database

    Open-web evidence exposes work, trajectory and skills that title filters miss.

    Score the same way every time

    Deterministic reasoning makes the shortlist reproducible and inspectable.

    Draft from real research

    Candidate messages reference actual work rather than token personalisation.

    Keep people in control

    Your team approves candidate-facing messages and owns every hiring decision.

    Keep the pipeline moving

    Follow-ups, booked calls and reports return to the thread where the team works.

    PUBLIC PEOPLE SEARCH BENCHMARK

    97.80

    overall score out of 100

    Search quality measured in public.

    The benchmark measures people-search relevance, coverage and utility. It supports the quality of the search engine, not a claim about hiring outcomes in a specific industry.

    Inspect the methodology

    Questions about recruiting lawyers.

    Can Laidback search for lawyers using hard requirements?+

    Yes. Your team can mark requirements such as Bar and jurisdiction and Practice area as non-negotiable. Laidback shows the supporting source so a human can verify it.

    What does Laidback evaluate for lawyers?+

    It evaluates the whole brief, including Professional records, Published matters, Writing and speaking. It does not rank people from title and keyword overlap alone.

    Does Laidback contact candidates automatically?+

    Laidback drafts research-led messages and follow-ups. A human reviews candidate-facing outreach before it sends unless the team explicitly approves a defined workflow.

    Does this replace our ATS or recruiting team?+

    No. Laidback works alongside the team in Slack and writes finished work back to the systems you already use. Human judgment stays with your team.

    How can we check why someone was shortlisted?+

    Every recommendation includes the evidence and reasoning behind it. The same calibrated brief produces the same scoring logic, making the shortlist inspectable and reproducible.

    Related hiring contexts

    The same engine, calibrated to a different brief.

    Bring one role. Find who's actually right.

    No tool to learn or app to use. Just Laidback getting the job done.

    Laidback recruiting coworker