How Legalis increased recruiter productivity by 40% with Access Vincere Evo

Legalis, a US-based legal recruitment firm with 25 years of industry experience, achieved a 40% increase in productivity after switching to Access Vincere Evo. Previously relying on a system with no CRM functionality, Legalis struggled with manual processes, limited integrations, and disconnected data. With Access Vincere Evo, they gained a centralised ATS and CRM, automated candidate and job management, a self-service Candidate Portal, and a fully integrated tech stack. The result: a faster, more scalable recruitment operation built for long-term growth.

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Posted 20/01/2023 | Updated 25/02/2026

About Legalis

 

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Legalis is a US-based recruitment firm with a 25-year reputation as a world leader in matching law firms and leading corporations with the top professionals globally.

  • Company: Legalis
  • Headquarters: United States
  • Industry: Human Resources
  • Specialties: Legal, tax and compliance recruitment
  • Size: 11-50 employees
  • Website: https://legalisglobal.com/ 

From manual chaos to 40% productivity gains: Legalis' recruitment transformation

 

Ellen Hayes, Managing Director at Legalis is dedicated to providing strategic advice on practice groups and entire firm acquisition & mergers, and passionate about delivering results on the most complex searches worldwide. Last year, she reached a point where her current system was lacking in features that were specific to the business needs, and went on a search for a platform that would help her manage the entire recruitment lifecycle easily.

 

The challenge: An extensive search for a proper CRM

 

Before Access Vincere Evo, Legalis was using Taleo to manage recruitment - but a major pain-point was that it wasn’t built for recruitment and staffing agencies. Legalis wanted to elevate their services by building quality relationships with clients, however, it proved to be a main challenge as it fundamentally lacked a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) feature.

Whilst Taleo was decent as an ATS, it had zero CRM functionality, we wanted to maximise our business development and marketing efforts, but weren’t able to do that without a proper CRM.

The team at Legalis embarked on a long extensive 18 month search to find the right recruitment platform before they found Access Vincere Evo.

Access Vincere Evo's CRM gives us the ability to visualize the entire business development pipeline on one single dashboard. This is very much aligned to our efforts for ongoing management and measurement of these relationships. I am confident that Access Vincere Evo pipeline-driven interface will help us foster loyal and long-lasting connections with current and prospective clients alike.

 

The solution: Leveraging on recruitment automation

 

According to Ellen, it was a massive productivity killer as everything had to be manual - from the uploading of resumes, posting of jobs through to general editing of job adverts and candidates profiles. Plus, there were extremely limited integrations for 3rd party apps to support background checks, video interviewing and social media service which they needed. Access Vincere Evo offered a different experience: everything was automated and integrated.

By using the Candidate Portal, candidates can register and log in to manage their own profiles at any time, and this includes an out-of the-box personal/privacy settings feature for GDPR compliance which syncs back to the CRM/ATS. Given the state of tech today, you want a platform that is integrated and offers you the flexibility to easily sync information to other systems as well. I’m glad to say that Access Vincere Evo does that really well and especially so, with their mobile app and built-in invoicing feature.

 

The output: Towards business transformation & growth

 

Looking forward, Ellen and the team at Legalis are excited to tie in the best practices workflows that Access Vincere Evo offers together with their business processes.

 

Previously, many aspects of our business and data were kept in separate ‘vaults’. Now, everything is in one centralised and collaborative location.

If you’re looking for a recruitment platform, definitely consider Access Vincere Evo. Their after-sales support is as personalised as the sales pitch. You’ll find yourself en-route towards a true transformation for your recruitment business.

Book a personalised walkthrough with a product expert, free of charge and see exactly how Access Vincere Evo helps recruitment agency owners place faster, bill more, and scale without the chaos.