Overview

• Founded in 1992 and based at Bells Yew Green Road, Royal Tunbridge Wells (TN3 9BD), Alford & Bishop operates with a 2-person team to maintain personalized recruitment services
• Specializes exclusively in legal recruitment for Southern England, focusing on regional private practice clients and corporate/in-house legal teams
• Has operated for 33 years with a client acquisition strategy driven primarily by referrals and repeat business
• Recruits for 20+ legal disciplines including corporate finance, commercial litigation, residential conveyancing, and wealth management
• Maintains a deliberate small-scale structure to preserve ethical, long-term relationship-focused service in legal staffing

Specializations

• Placement of solicitors across 18 specific practice areas including professional negligence, planning law, and trusts
• Recruitment of non-attorney legal roles including legal executives, practice managers, and legal cashiers
• Staffing solutions for niche legal sectors like blue/white collar crime defense and residential development law
• Locum tenens placements for temporary legal positions in private practice settings

Services & Approach

• Permanent recruitment for private practice law firms across Kent and Southern England
• Temporary staffing solutions for legal positions requiring immediate coverage
• Executive search services for law firm management roles including practice managers
• Career placement for in-house legal advisers within commercial and industrial organizations