We spoke to Gary Miles, President and CEO at Miles Partner Placement, about how his team uses Pirical Legal Professionals (PLP) to bolster its research process.

With PLP, Miles Partner Placement’s recruiters can unlock essential data, save time and find the most relevant candidates.

A smart, simple interface

Recruiters don’t have the time to sort through unclear or irrelevant information. 

Thanks to Pirical’s user-friendly platform, the team can move quickly and get straight to the conversations

The challenge

Gary started in the industry almost two decades ago, back when legal recruiters used physical directories to find candidates. In the years since, he’s successfully placed more than 100 partners.

So Gary’s market knowledge and network of relationships go deep, but with the founding of Miles Partner Placement he began using search software. His team needed a database to research the market and find relevant candidates, not every recruiter can rely on the years of expertise in their head like Gary can.

However, as the team grew and the company began placing Partners all across the United States, Gary realised their existing search database wasn't going far enough. "It was a little unwieldy,” Gary said. “It took time to refine the search categories, with hundreds of lawyers we weren't looking for.” They needed richer data and a more intuitive design.

The solution

As Gary puts it, "In our business our currencies are information, relationships and time." So any efficiencies that can be made in these areas takes the team closer to meeting new contacts. And when every phone call is an opportunity to make a large placement, any time saved is hugely valuable.

Pirical Legal Professionals (PLP) provides the team with comprehensive and up-to-date bios on attorneys all over the world, equipping them with the information they need to ask the right questions and begin building those key relationships. With all the relevant data in one place and backed up by powerful search filters, Gary's recruiters can save hours of time.

Pirical Legal Professionals (PLP) as an integral part of the team's workflow

By helping Gary’s team refine their search process, Pirical has enhanced their output dramatically. “Pirical’s flexibility means my recruiters can create lists of different categories, for different firms, in different regions,” Gary said. Plus, if a feature needed improving, his team don't hesitate to feed that back. “We would point it out,” Gary told us. “And it would be fixed that day or within a couple of days.”

But even more than customer service, Gary pointed to Pirical’s data as its biggest asset. “Our searches are very specific... you’re looking for certain skill sets, certain years, certain pedigree of law school.” His recruiters need to ascertain who might have a relationship with a client, and Pirical does exactly that.

Pirical aligns with the way Gary gets new staff up to speed too. “My newest recruiter has been with us for six or seven months,” Gary told us. Importantly, this new hire also didn’t have a background in law or recruitment. “When we trained her up, PLP was very helpful and very accurate. She’s since generated four or five candidates and closed deals north of a million.”

“Pirical isn’t just accurate, it's also easy to use.

Most of my recruiters create all of their candidate lists using Pirical. We’re talking seven figure numbers in terms of the deals that have resulted from that.”

People

Search 600,000+ legal professionals by location, practice area, seniority, law school and more. 

Understand the client relationships a Partner might have, so you can ask the right questions during your first call.

Lists

With Pirical it’s easy to refine and save your search results, as well as create lists of attorneys based on your criteria.

Share shortlists of candidates, leave notes on profiles and easily export or contact the whole list.

Moves

Pirical helps you stay ahead of the competition by tracking lateral attorney moves and promotions. 

Identify trends, monitor who’s hiring, who’s leaving and where candidates are heading to.

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