Top in-house legal recruiters of 2014 revealed
JPMorgan, the BBC and Barclays top vacancy rankings as financial services roles dominate in-house hiring in 2014
March 10, 2015 at 07:47 AM
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JPMorgan Chase, the BBC and Barclays advertised the most in-house legal vacancies last year, new data from business intelligence provider Vacancysoft shows.
JPMorgan was the top recruiter, with a total of 40 in-house legal positions listed on the bank's career portal in 2014. The majority were banking and finance lawyer roles, with a small number spread across regulatory, employment, real estate and other specialist fields.
The BBC was the second largest in-house vacancy lister, advertising 27 positions on its careers site. Details of the recruitment plans come after the broadcaster announced last year that it would set up a new legal services apprenticeship scheme starting in September 2014, taking on three new staff in its London in-house team, with the organisation also launching a legal trainee scheme for which applications opened this week.
Barclays came third in the rankings with 27 vacancies, 13 of which were classified as banking and finance roles.
Other leading providers of in-house vacancies included HSBC, Vodafone and BSkyB.
By sector, financial services dominated in-house vacancies last year, with 42% of all vacancies in 2014 coming from the sector.
According to the data, in the final quarter of last year there were more vacancies available in financial services roles than across all other commerce and industry sectors.
Outside of financial services, which saw a total of 361 vacancies listed throughout the year, the largest vacancy activity was seen in the technology, media and telecommunications space.
IP and IT lawyers proved to be in high demand, with 271 vacancies in total. Consumer goods and services was the third largest hiring area for in-house lawyers. Ninety-one vacancies were available during the year in that sector.
In total 862 in-house legal vacancies were catalogued by Vacancysoft. The data was compiled by monitoring the careers portals of around 500,000 UK companies, with researchers manually categorising each vacancy according to the Industry Classification Benchmark system adopted by the London and New York stock exchanges.
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