Alchemy Legal

Alchemy offers recruiting services in the following seven areas: law firm recruitment, general counsel recruitment, in-house staff attorney recruitment, patent and intellectual property personnel recruitment, temporary placement, paralegal recruitment, and legal staff recruitment.

Through Alchemy's law firm recruitment services, recruiters place partners and associates in a variety of practice areas. As a result of the firm's global reach, the firm is capable of working with both local and regional job candidates, as well as national and international candidates.


Alchemy's general counsel recruitment services generally provide clients with seven highly qualified candidates for the initial interview phase. As a result of Alchemy's close working relationships with leading law firm partners and senior counsel, the firm's recruiters have connections to competently place general counsel candidates across the country. Candidates are carefully screened on the basis of experience, professional presence, management capabilities, personality, and business comprehension. Recruiters have performed general counsel searches for public and private companies of every size.

The firm has built a reputation for itself in providing leading candidates to corporate law departments in a number of business areas. Alchemy's recruiters have performed searches that run the gamut from deputy general counsel to junior-level posts in a variety of areas including mutual funds, corporate, tax, and patent law.

Alchemy's patent and intellectual property personnel recruitment services aim to provide clients with the best candidates quickly. The firm offers an extensive database of patent agent, patent liaison, chief privacy offices, and staff attorney candidates. Typical recruits include biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and biochemistry; chemical engineering; computer science; electrical engineering; mechanical engineering; and medical devices patent prosecutors. Biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and biochemistry and chemical engineering patent litigation attorneys are also among the firms common recruits.

The recruiter's temporary placement services are usually used to resolve issues related to staffing shortages or the temporary leave of an employee. Alchemy's temporary job candidates are generally paid by the hour. Because temporary candidates are presented as Alchemy Legal employees, the hourly rate includes Alchemy's fee.

The firm's paralegal recruitment services specialize in placing knowledgeable candidates in the tough labor markets within the San Diego, San Francisco, and Washington, DC, areas.

And finally, Alchemy's legal staff placement service provides legal secretary, law librarian, docketing secretary, and accounting and billing clerk placements.

Alchemy Legal recruiters are mostly experts from within personnel consulting, marketing, and research, who aim to provide clients and job candidates alike with effective job placement services. For the most part, each candidate works with a single recruiter throughout the duration of the job search effort, thus enabling individualized and informed attention. Recruiters are quick to follow-up on interviews and to provide candidates with prompt and detailed updates. Furthermore, Alchemy does not require candidates to sign an exclusivity agreement, thus enabling candidates to access outside job opportunities as well.

Similar to candidates, clients also work primarily with one recruiter who can take them through the entire candidate search and hiring process. The firm can provide fast and efficient candidate searches for companies and law firms that may have already put time and effort into an unsuccessful Internet candidate search. Alchemy offers both contingent and retained job searches, depending on the client's wishes. Clients are presented with pre-screened candidates and are also given access to Alchemy's database. All fees are paid by employers.