Hire exceptional lawyers.
Pay a flat fee.
No more 20–25% agency fees. LexLadder charges £4,000 per successful hire, regardless of salary. Lex handles sourcing, screening, and scheduling — you just choose.
Know your worth.
Move with confidence.
Access your personal Market Intelligence Dashboard showing your real market value. Browse firm profiles, explore vacancies, and let Lex work on your behalf — all for free.
From brief to hire in four steps.
Subscribe
Choose a plan that fits your firm. From boutique to Magic Circle, we have a tier for every hiring cadence.
Brief Lex
Tell Lex what you need — practice area, PQE, culture fit. Lex gets to work immediately, 24/7.
Review candidates
Receive narrative-rich candidate profiles in your pipeline. Lex has already screened, interviewed, and scored each one.
Hire & pay
Make your hire. Pay the flat £4,000 success fee. No percentage. No surprises. No negotiation.
Your AI recruitment agent, always on.
Lex is not a chatbot. Lex is a fully autonomous recruitment agent trained on private practice law. Lex sources candidates, conducts structured interviews, prepares narrative profiles, and monitors counter-offer risk — all without you lifting a finger.
Good morning. I have reviewed your Corporate M&A brief. I have identified 12 candidates matching your 3–5 PQE requirement in the City.
Great — any stand-outs?
Three candidates are exceptional. Sarah Chen (4 PQE, Clifford Chance) has strong PE experience. I have prepared her full narrative profile.
Everything you need. Nothing you don't.
Lex AI Agent
Always-on sourcing, screening, and scheduling. Lex works your brief around the clock so you don't have to.
Market Intelligence
Candidates see their real market worth. Firms see live salary benchmarks. Everyone negotiates from the same data.
Firm Profiles
Beautiful employer branding pages that sell your culture, values, and opportunities to the best passive talent.
Pipeline Dashboard
A Kanban view of every vacancy and every candidate in process. Full visibility, zero admin.
Counter-offer Protection
Lex monitors risk signals throughout the process and flags counter-offer risk before it costs you a placement.
Verified Network
Every candidate on LexLadder is a verified UK & Ireland private practice lawyer. No noise, no generalists.
Trusted by firms and lawyers alike.
We saved over £40,000 in recruitment fees in our first quarter. Lex found us two exceptional associates we would never have reached through traditional channels.
The market worth dashboard is genuinely brilliant. I finally understood what I was worth before I even started negotiating.
The quality of candidates is exceptional. Lex's narrative profiles are more useful than anything a traditional recruiter has ever sent us.