SERVICE
Under an APL-Contract Placement, the APL Lawyer works for you, the Client, and APL acts as your agent for paying the APL Lawyer.
We send you as many APL Lawyers as you need, for as long as you need. Working at your premises APL Lawyers are focused solely on your project. This service is particularly useful for large-scale legal review both in securities and in litigation.

PROCESS
APL operates under a team approach so you are assured of the fruits of co–ordinated efforts rather than of competition. Once we have discussed your needs, including those intangibles which often make or break the right fit, we spring into action. We provide in-depth searches of our comprehensive database of legal professionals (7500+ resumes and growing) based on the key variables discussed with you, as well as drafting and running complementary ads in the Ontario Reports and in various career websites.

We then review those candidates who meet our stringent requirements, doing both preliminary phone screening plus face-to-face interviews. Only then do we send you reports and resumes on most suitable candidates. For APL-Contract Placements we often use specialized sole practitioners with whom we have developed a relationship over the years.

Once you have decided to meet with a candidate, we assist in helping to set up interviews, debrief both you and the candidates, and help to answer any questions you may have.

Even after you have selected the candidate(s) for your contract placement, APL is there to support you, you throughout the placement, assisting you in ensuring that any issues that may arise are resolved.

We also assist in replacing any candidates that may depart during the contract period.

BENEFITS
As a result, after 19 years of legal recruiting, we have developed an extensive data and contact and knowledge pool as well as a finely honed team approach, assuring you of confident recruitment services.

We can help you achieve cost reductions and productivity (or revenue) gains through supplying you with APL Lawyers on a flexible contract basis:

• to reduce excessive reliance on permanent employees or outside file referral;
• to assist with major litigation or corporate document review projects;
• to deal with increased workload due to work surges, projects, trials, corporate transactions, or new areas of practice; and
• to cope with decreased lawyer workforce due to scheduling conflicts, family leaves, vacations, illness, staff turnover, sabbaticals, and secondments.

We aim for maximum flexibility. We can send you an individual or team of lawyers. Part-time arrangements are available and, upon a maximum of two weeks notice, replacement or termination of a lawyer is always possible. An extended assignment through APL can also provide an excellent risk-free trial period toward a Direct Hire.
Use APL Lawyers as if they were your own. Because APL Lawyers work on your premises with your facilities, you are supplying part of the overhead yourself and therefore reducing costs. You save a portion of the legal fees paid to outside counsel. You also retain financial and task control.
We save you the time and expense of lawyer advertising, resume review, and interviewing. Our clients have acknowledged the superior comprehensiveness of our screening procedures, including our detailed candidate evaluation forms, the benefits of which are passed on to our clients. As both lawyers and professional recruiters, we can help you avoid costly errors. Above all, the utmost confidentiality is assured to all individuals and organizations dealing with APL.
Because our contract workers are provided with medical and dental benefits, APL is able to attract and motivate high quality candidates for our clients.

FEES
You pay us, based on a formula determined by the candidate’s year of call and we in return pay the candidate(s) on your behalf, retaining a portion for our fee. We also provide candidate(s) single medical/dental benefits free of charge, and deduct Canadian Pension Plan and Employment Insurance as a safety-net form them. The candidate(s) pay their own taxes and enjoy all the benefits of independent contract status as well.

CONFIDENTIALITY
At APL, we value our client’s privacy – we never, unless requested, advertise our clients’ names and only reveal them to those candidates that are deemed a good fit. As a result, we ensure that you are not bombarded with unsolicited resumes. In addition, because of our respect for privacy, we never forward an unsolicited resume to you. If you have further questions, our Privacy Policy urther outlines our responsibilities and practices.
 

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