A new legal careers platform promises to offer verified profiles for almost 9000 SRA-regulated firms, with dedicated career pages covering family law.
LawBoard, which launched last month, includes a free salary benchmarking tool that gives practitioners an honest view of what professionals in their practice area and region are earning. “For firms competing for experienced family lawyers, the platform offers a way to present their culture, team and benefits directly to candidates who are actively researching potential employers,” LawBoard said.
The launch comes at a time when talent acquisition remains a persistent pressures facing law firms. The Law Society’s 2025 strategic sector insights report identified recruitment challenges, talent retention and lack of appropriate staff among the primary threats for mid-sized firms.
“For family law practices in particular, where caseloads are emotionally demanding and burnout drives turnover, the ability to present a firm’s culture and working environment to prospective candidates has become a genuine competitive advantage,” the company explained.
The platform uses verified SRA data to build a free profile for every regulated firm. Firms can then pay a fee to add their own branding and information about culture, teams and benefits.
A salary benchmarking tool covers qualified solicitors, paralegals, legal executives, trainees and legal secretaries, with adjustments for practice area, region, experience level and firm size.
Candidate discretion is central to the platform’s design, its creator says, with profiles remaining invisible until they are activated. Current employers can be blocked from seeing a profile entirely, and recruiters can only view candidates who have explicitly opted in to recruiter contact. Candidates can send their profile directly to firms they are interested in, with no placement fee involved in the introduction.
“Most legal professionals start thinking about their next move long before they apply for anything,” said Ben Holtom, creator of LawBoard. “They research firms quietly, compare salaries in their head and try to work out whether a move would actually be worth it. Right now, there is no single place where they can do all of that without registering on a job board and immediately becoming visible to everyone. That is what LawBoard changes.”
LawBoard spans 24 practice areas, including family law, probate and estates, wills trusts and tax, private client, residential property, personal injury and criminal law.
