Ad Idem

Ad Idem is a New Zealand executive search firm specialising in legal private practice. It also provides people related advisory services to law firms and undertakes select in-house appointments. It says it works only on an exclusively retained basis.

The firm places individuals at all levels in the legal and professional services sectors, working with New Zealand law firms from boutique to medium sized. It fills full time, part time and contract positions, including fixed and longer-term assignments, nationally and internationally. Recruitment services include market mapping, partner and lawyer searches, developing employee value propositions, candidate management and reference, criminal, qualification and credit checks. Advisory work covers promotion, policy development, performance management, practice structure, remuneration and reward, and market intelligence. It also offers career services to individual lawyers.

Sandra Gilliam works with firms and lawyers, drawing on almost three decades of executive search and law firm leadership roles. The firm says it has worked inside New Zealand and global law firms over three decades.