Lawyers tend to be eager for a challenge, which makes the jobs of recruiters placing them pretty easy. However, the challenges in placing attorneys in in-house roles are not based around industry but rather the title and specific roles of the job, according to recruiters who help companies find attorneys for their legal departments.

John Gilmore, the co-founder and managing partner at BarkerGilmore, said in his experience it is not hard to place attorneys in industry-specific in-house roles, but it is hard to place them in the niche roles companies look for in their legal departments.