How does a lawyer hired through Singularity fit into your team?
As a member of it, full stop. The contract runs through Singularity, but that is plumbing. Day to day, your hire should be treated exactly like a remote member of your own team: your matters, your systems, your meetings, your standards, your supervision.
The firms that get the most from a placement are the ones that never think of their lawyer as an external resource. The ones that struggle are the ones that do.
The structure is not the relationship
The agreement with Singularity exists to make the hire simple: we handle the contracting, the payments and the administration, so a firm can bring in a lawyer from another jurisdiction without building any of that itself. None of it changes who the person works for in practice. You chose them from a shortlist, you direct their work, and they work for your firm full time and for nobody else.
Onboard them like any starter
- Give them the induction a UK starter would get: the systems, the precedents, the house style, the people.
- Put them in the team's meetings and channels from day one, rather than at the end of a task list.
- Give them a named supervising lawyer and the same feedback rhythm as any junior fee earner.
- Kit them out properly: with our help you can procure company equipment for them, managed by your own IT.
And we stay in the picture
We run check-ins on both sides of every placement, so small problems surface while they are still small. If the fit ever stops working, the replacement right is always there: a different lawyer whenever you ask, whatever the reason, with no fee for the new search.
Bring the seat you are struggling to fill.
Twenty minutes, no deck, no obligation. We will tell you honestly whether we can help.
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