Elite Boutique Recruitment Partner to Law Firms, Legal Tech and SaaS Businesses.
Specialist hiring and executive search across the UK, US and Europe, delivered with the rigour and discretion that only a boutique firm can provide.
Your boutique recruitment partner for legal, technology, and commercial growth.
We provide specialist recruitment solutions for Legal Tech, Legal BD & Marketing, and SaaS partnering with the world’s leading law firms, legal technology and SAAS companies to hire the people who drive innovation, revenue, and transformation.
From technology and product leadership to commercial and BD teams, we embed ourselves in our clients’ growth plans and deliver searches that move the needle. The quality of those partnerships speaks for itself: over 95% of our business comes from clients who return to us again and again.
Typically we have three types of clients
This gives an in-depth knowledge of the different job roles, talent market, and competitive challenges in each sector.
Recruitment Partner to the World’s Leading Law Firms
We partner with Am Law 100, Magic Circle, and global law firms to hire the Business Development directors, Marketing leaders, and Innovation specialists building their commercial and technology capabilities.
These are not straightforward hires. The most impactful BD and Legal Tech leaders are rarely on the market, and the firms best positioned to attract them combine genuine market knowledge with a research-led, discreet approach. That is exactly how we work.
Our partnership with Lacie Marshall of Onward Legal Innovation gives us unmatched depth in the US legal market, combining James Shenton’s 20 years of executive search experience with Lacie’s two decades inside Big Law talent strategy.
Recruitment Partner to Legal Tech and LegalOps SaaS Companies
We recruit for the full range of talent that Legal Tech and LegalOps SaaS companies need to grow, from AI Engineers and Product Managers to Sales Directors, Customer Success leaders, and Go-to-Market specialists.
We understand this market from both sides. We know the firms buying the technology and the people making those decisions, and we know the companies building and selling it. That dual perspective means we find candidates who understand the legal sector context, not just the technology, which is the difference between a good hire and a great one.
For Legal Tech companies selling into law firms, this is a particular advantage. We can identify commercial talent that already understands how law firms buy, how partners think, and what it takes to win and grow enterprise legal accounts.
Recruitment Partner to SaaS and Technology Businesses
With over 20 years recruiting across the SaaS landscape, we support technology companies outside the legal sector to hire exceptional commercial, engineering, and product talent across the UK, US and Europe.
Our SaaS experience spans Defence, HR Tech, FinTech, EnergyTech, and B2B software, with particular strength in go-to-market leadership, senior commercial hiring, and scaling engineering teams through periods of rapid growth.
We bring the same boutique, research-led approach to every SaaS mandate — whether you’re making your first senior commercial hire or building out a 20-person go-to-market function ahead of a funding round or IPO.
Proof points to surface here:
- Pexip — 45 hires across UK, Norway, US and APAC supporting their 2020 IPO
- Titian Software — 20% workforce growth across UK and US in two years
- Senior placements at Flutter, Sky, Goldman Sachs and Ericsson
Recent Global Placements for our clients include
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Director of Business Development (Investment Funds) | Am Law 5
Legal Services | Business Development
New York | NYC
Case Study: Legal Business Development Director Search | Investment Funds | New York Client Overview An Am Law 10 law...
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Exclusive Search | Associate Director Business Development | Corporate Finance
Legal Services | Business Development
New York
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Head of AI Engineering - AI Data Security
Technology - Software Engineering
San Francisco
Opus Resourcing partnered with a high-growth Series B cybersecurity company in the San Francisco Bay Area to deliver a Head...
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AI Software Engineer - Elite Boutique Patent Law Firm
Legal Technology, AI Engineering
Los Angeles, California, US
Opus Resourcing led a specialised search for an AI Engineer with advanced LLM and data science expertise, partnering with a...
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Associate Director | Securities Litigation | NYC | Am Law 10
Legal Services - Business Development
NYC | New York
Case Study: Exclusive Search for an Associate Director, Business Development, New York Helping an Am Law 10 firm strengthen its...
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Why Opus
Opus Resourcing is an elite boutique firm. Our Managing Partners bring 30 years of technology search experience and decades of expertise in building high-performing legal and commercial teams for law firms, legal departments, and technology businesses across the US, the UK, and Europe.
We are highly consultative by design, acting as a true advisory partner throughout: helping you sharpen the brief, pressure-test your thinking, and make the right hire, not just a fast one.
Here is what that means in practice:
1. Boutique means accountable.
Every search is led personally by a Managing Partner. You will never be passed to a junior researcher or find your brief sitting in a queue. We take on a limited number of mandates at any one time, specifically so we can give each search the focus and seniority it deserves.
2. Research-led, not database-driven.
The best candidates for senior roles are rarely actively looking. We map the market for each search, identify the right individuals, and approach them directly and discreetly. Our shortlists reflect the full landscape of available talent — not just whoever applied.
3. Cross-industry networks that others can’t access.
Our backgrounds span Legal Tech, Legal BD, SaaS, FinTech, and enterprise technology. This gives us access to talent pools that purely legal or purely tech recruiters cannot reach — which matters most when you need someone who can bridge both worlds.
4. Executive search rigour at every level.
Whether we are recruiting a Director of Business Development for an Am Law 10 firm or a VP of Sales for a Series B SaaS company, we apply the same structured, consultative approach — a proper brief, a defined market map, qualified candidates, and honest advice throughout.
Our Clients include
Our clients include Am Law 100 and global law firms hiring BD directors and innovation leaders, Legal Tech SaaS companies scaling their commercial and engineering teams, and high-growth SaaS/technology businesses across the UK, US, and Europe
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When we set out to build our NYC based practice-specific strategic legal business development team, we knew we needed a search partner who could truly understand the complexity of what we were trying to accomplish, not just fill roles but help shape a high-performing function in one of the most demanding legal environments and complex markets in the world. James Shenton and Lacie Marshall exceeded those expectations for us at every turn.
CMO Testimonial Am Law 10 - US
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I have been working with James at Opus Resourcing for over four years, though he has partnered with Pexip for longer, having been retained by the CTO through a period of high growth in preparation for an IPO in 2020. He has succeeded in placing hard-to-find engineers into software, DevOps, and Support teams. In total, across our UK, Norwegian, American, and Asia-Pacific regions, James has now placed 45 technical hires. Pexip often struggled to hire into these roles. James invested significant time to truly understand the business on both a technological and cultural level, using his expertise and experience to source first-rate talent.
Mike Hatfield - Pexip - VP Engineering
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Opus Resourcing have worked with me since 2011 across 3 organisations, specialising on building high performing technology teams, working on rapid product development and distributed systems. They are a preferred supplier due to their depth of experience, personal service and ability to deliver across a variety of roles, including Software Engineering, Product and DevOps. Client testimonial
Steve Hirst - CTO - Origami Energy
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Opus Resourcing and James have been a valued, credible and knowledgeable talent sourcing partner of PPB /Flutter's for the past 10 years. He's engaged and placed circa 70 talented people into our business ranging from engineers, managers to directors including many key senior technology experts in some quite niche areas, all the while being an absolute pleasure to work with.
Elaine Sheehy - Technology Talent Acquisition Specialist
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We recently hired a programmer for an extremely unusual role, a full-time data scientist with LLM/AI experience and an understanding of patent law. James came to us after multiple rounds with other recruiters failed to generate any viable leads. Within days, James identified four candidates, each highly qualified, any of whom would have done an excellent job. We had our role filled almost immediately. James is easy to work with, understood our unique requirements, and skillfully pivoted as we learned more. He will be my first choice for a technical recruiter in the future.
Thomas Barr - Legal Innovation - LA / California - Client Testimonial
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