Statistics obtained from ALB Magazine’s Legal Jobs Centre website indicate a reversal in fortunes for the legal recruitment market, with more people spending more time looking for jobs in September. The month saw a 26% increase in the number of people searching for “legal jobs” on internet search engines.

While it is difficult to draw conclusions from a single month’s statistics, the increase in search activity on the job website comes after another particularly strong month in August, showing that a trend might be occurring.

At the moment the most widely read advertisements on the website are for senior positions, including one for a Melbourne-based general counsel offered through boutique recruiter Burgess Paluch and one from niche legal recruiter David Talalla & Associates, offering partner positions in all areas of law.

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