It advises leading UK and international companies in the sport, entertainment, leisure, media, technology, telecommunications, FMCG/retail, advertising, travel and tourism sectors. It advises companies with varying sizes of legal team, be they well-established and many-numbered or be they a start-up organisation looking to make their first in-house legal hire full-stop or their first in-house legal hire within a certain jurisdiction.

It advises lawyers at all PQE levels, from NQ level to GC level.

It operates an entirely unique and non-mass personalised service - ‘C.P.T.C.’, the bespoke in-house legal consultancy:

C - Credibility

P - Proof

T - Trust

C - Consistency

J Matthews Legal provides a unique niche alternative to companies and lawyers, totally different from traditional agency recruiting methodology. Its starting point is a firm understanding of its market, absolute trust from every single interaction with companies and lawyers alike, and thorough professionalism and dedication to providing successful solutions with both a company’s and a lawyer’s goals placed as the absolute priority above anything else.

Being a niche operator, J Matthews Legal is able to provide its client companies with a specifically targeted and suitable strategy for going into the recruitment market at any point, be that on a traditional contingency basis, by way of a specific executive search, by way of ongoing retainer or through a mixture of any of the foregoing combined with whatever else a company might feel comfortable with.

J Matthews Legal does not advise or act for law firms, nor does it act for companies outside of its areas of expertise. By being focused and targeted in its approach, it operates as a market informer rather than merely a traditional recruiter postbox.

J Matthews Legal does not cold call companies. It instead operates via word of mouth recommendations within the market, referrals, existing knowledge of and relationships with a wide range of companies and constant dialogue with both leading and emerging in-house lawyers on a personal relationship level.

J Matthews Legal does not suggest inappropriate potential positions to lawyers. It does not say yes when something other than yes is the appropriate answer. It does not leave lawyers uninformed or unprepared in respect of any of their dealings with potential future employers.