Our Legal Executive Search Services

Your legal leadership defines how far your organisation can operate with confidence. The right legal executive not only protects your business from risk, but empowers you to execute strategy with clarity and agility. At Novo, we partner with boards and executive teams to find legal executives who strengthen governance and support growth.

Find the Right Legal Executive.

The Search for the Right Legal Executive

Selecting the right legal executive is one of the most strategically important decisions an organisation can make. Modern legal leadership sits at the intersection of risk, regulation, commercial performance and organisational assurance.

Legal executives are involved in the decisions that shape how your business operates, how it protects value, and how it responds to regulatory complexity. The right leader ensures compliance, gives boards confidence to act, and enables strategic progress even in the face of uncertainty.

A legal leader who lacks commercial perspective or strategic alignment can expose your organisation to compliance gaps, stalled transactions, or reputational risk. This underscores the complexity of modern legal executive search. It isn’t simply about technical capability, it’s about securing a leader who protects and advances your organisation.

Novo addresses this challenge with deep legal sector insight and a rigorous assessment framework that evaluates both legal expertise and commercial leadership.

Our Consultative Approach to Legal Executive Recruitment

Our legal executive search methodology is discreet, structured and tailored to the specific demands of senior legal leadership.

  • Discovery & Scoping: We begin with a comprehensive understanding of your organisation’s strategy, risk profile and leadership culture. We clarify the commercial and regulatory challenges your new legal executive must address.
  • Talent Mapping & Search: Leveraging deep sector networks and legal market intelligence, we map both active and passive candidates with the expertise and judgement your organisation needs.
  • Rigorous Assessment: Our multi-layered assessment combines technical legal skill, regulatory experience, strategic thinking and leadership behaviours. We evaluate alignment with your organisational values as well as cultural fit.
  • Engagement & Negotiation: We guide you through offer structuring and negotiation, providing strategic advice that aligns candidate expectations with your organisational objectives.
  • Onboarding & Integration: Our support doesn’t stop at appointment. We help ensure a smooth transition, positioning your legal leader for early influence and sustained impact.

 

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Why Partner with Novo Executive for your Legal Executive Search?

When legal leadership influences performance, risk management and organisational confidence, choosing the right search partner is critical.

Proven Delivery: We maintain a high assignment completion rate and reach offer stage rapidly, driven by disciplined research and a structured methodology that minimises operational disruption.

Deep Legal Sector Intelligence: Our consultants bring a practical understanding of how legal leadership operates across regulated industries and commercial environments, enabling nuanced evaluation of both expertise and strategic leadership capability.

Access to the Invisible Market: The highest-impact legal executives are often not actively looking. Through long-term relationship building and strategic research, we access passive candidates your competitors can’t reach.

Discretion and Integrity: Confidentiality is embedded into every stage of our process, protecting your reputation and the trust of the candidates we engage.

Experienced, Stable Team: Our consultants have extensive tenure and sector knowledge, bringing seasoned judgement to every search we undertake.

Testimonials

Thanks again for a super service.

World Sailing

 

We were delighted with Novo’s work and efforts. Theye significantly contributed to achieving our goal. We therefore would have no hesitation in recommending Novo to any other organisation looking for help or advice in executive recruitment.

Chiorino UK Ltd

Novo ran a highly professional and thorough search process, bringing forward an impressive list of candidates for our consideration

RECCo

“I received an excellent service from Novo, from my initial meeting with the consultant to the final negotiations around the job offer the service was faultless. I felt I was well matched to the role and I was kept well informed during the entire recruitment process and any queries I had were answered very promptly. I would highly recommend Novo”

JISC

Industry Expertise in Legal Executive Search

The responsibilities of a legal executive director vary significantly by industry. A senior legal leader in a highly regulated environment will face different strategic challenges to one operating in a fast-growth technology business. Choosing someone with the right sector perspective matters.

Our experience spans critical sectors including Aviation & Defence, Construction & Property, Energy & Renewables, Technology, Manufacturing, FMCG, and the Public & Nonprofit sectors. This sector breadth ensures we find legal executives whose insight, experience and leadership style align with your market and organisational priorities.

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Our Legal Executive Search Specialists

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Matthew Searle

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Dale Perrett

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Matthew Searle

Director

Matthew is a Director at Novo Executive Search specialising in helping clients identify and attract the best possible senior management and executive appointments. Matthew’s early career began with 10 years...

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Dale Perrett

Founding Director

Dale is one of the Founding Directors of Novo Executive Search and Selection. He is part of the Novo leadership team that drives the business. He remains passionate about working...

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A Global Network for Legal Executive Recruitment

Your ideal legal leader might currently be working internationally. Our global executive search capability connects you with legal executives across jurisdictions, whether placing international legal leaders into UK organisations or attracting global talent to UK roles.

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Current Legal Executive Roles

Employee Relations Specialist
Salary: excellent package

We are looking for an experienced Employee Relations Specialist to join our team. This role requires a strong understanding of UK employment law and the ability to manage complex workforce matters with discretion and professionalism.…

  • Legal/Company Secretarial
  • Legal Sector
  • Based in Feltham and offers hybrid working for flexibility
Job Ref No: ERS
Date Added: 27-11-2025
Private Client Solicitor
Salary: Competitive Base + Bonus

Our client is a well-established and highly successful top UK full-service law firm that offers expert & trusted legal advice to a broad range of clients. The business is doing very well and has a thriving Private Client offering. The Department has excellent relationships with clients and works across a wide variety of Private Client matters.…

  • Legal/Company Secretarial
  • Legal Sector
  • Bristol
Job Ref No: PCS/GW 06/25
Date Added: 12-06-2025
Legal Director, Private Client
Salary: Competitive Base + Bonus

Our client is a well-established and highly successful top law firm in Berkshire that offers expert & trusted legal advice to a broad range of clients. The business is doing very well and has a thriving Private Client offering. The Department has excellent relationships with clients and works across a wide variety of Private Client matters. Due to continued growth, there exists the key strategic requirement to recruit a Legal Director / Senior Associate Private Client. …

  • Legal/Company Secretarial
  • Legal Sector
  • Surrey (GB)
Job Ref No: GWPC 06/25
Date Added: 12-06-2025
Head of Private Client
Salary: Competitive Base + Bonus

Our client is a well-established and highly successful privately owned law firm in the West Midlands that offers expert & trusted legal advice to a broad range of clients. The business is doing very well and has a thriving Private Client offering. The Department has excellent relationships with clients and works across a wide variety of Private Client matters. Due to continued growth, there exists the key strategic requirement to recruit a Head of Private Client at either a Solicitor, Associate or Salaried Director level. …

  • Legal/Company Secretarial
  • Legal Sector
  • West Midlands
Job Ref No: HofPC GW 6/25
Date Added: 12-06-2025
Head of Commercial Property Designate (Law)
Salary: Competitive Base + Bonus

Our client is a well-established and highly successful law practice with offices in Kent and Sussex that offers expert & trusted legal advice to a broad range of clients.…

  • Legal/Company Secretarial Operations
  • Legal Sector
  • Brighton, East Sussex (GB)
Job Ref No: HofCPD GW 6/25
Date Added: 12-06-2025

Insights

Find Your Next Legal Executive Director

Legal executives prevent problems – the most effective ones also create opportunity. We help clients appoint legal leaders who not only safeguard compliance but strengthen governance, commercial performance and long-term resilience.

If you’re ready to begin your Legal Executive Search, speak with our team for a confidential discussion about how we can support your organisation.

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