Aaron Balfour has assisted us with our partner and lawyer recruitment for over ten years. He is a pleasure to work with and is someone who I trust to represent the firm and to act with complete integrity. He provides valuable input and advice to our resourcing strategy and works tirelessly to ensure any candidate he puts forward meets our role requirement. I have no hesitation in recommending him as a first class recruiter.

Finding the right people can be a long and arduous task.  Using Balfour Lewis makes life a whole lot easier.  With their sound knowledge of the market place and the type of people we look to employ, they effectively provide a first interview stage, ensuring we only see candidates that meet our requirements.  A large percentage of our lawyers, including some of our partners, were sourced using Balfour Lewis.  They are always our first port of call for fee earner recruitment.

Over the years, Aaron has become a trusted adviser to our firm on a broad range of HR matters. He has invested a significant amount of time to better understand our business and is someone we can count on to give us insightful and balanced advice.

I have worked with Aaron for many years now and can honestly say he is one of the most effective recruiters in the legal market. He is tireless in his efforts, enjoyable to deal with, utterly trustworthy and a man of integrity. Furthermore, he takes the time to understand the culture of the businesses he works with, respecting the role that in-house recruiters play whilst forging long-standing relationships with partners, allowing him to represent our firm with authenticity.

I have known Aaron Balfour for 7 years.  During which time he has assisted me with hiring associates and senior partners.  It did not take long to get the measure of him – he is professional to the core both to his client (the firm) and to his client (the candidate).  For this reason I have ultimate faith in his judgement.  As a HR practitioner it is imperative we seek to find the right fit for our firm in any new recruit who joins us and Aaron has gone beyond the norm when researching our firm’s culture, values, practices etc. in order to meet our criteria.  He adopts a business approach to our searches.  He is polished and above all behaves with the utmost integrity.  We as a firm are very happy to retain Aaron as our head-hunter. 

Balfour Lewis provided us with a tailored service which has really helped us to establish coherent objectives for our recruitment goals and then to translate those objectives into a successful recruitment strategy.  By selecting the most appropriate candidates Balfour Lewis have made a welcome contribution to the growth of our banking practice and helped us to identify avenues and opportunities which we might not have considered without their help.  Aaron Balfour in particular is a pleasure to work with and clearly enjoys his job.

Aaron Balfour has always delivered quality candidates.  He genuinely cares about placing the right candidate in the right firm.  That level of integrity is not often found in this market place.  We view Aaron as a valued member of our business team, not just as an external recruiter.

The recruitment market is disappointingly stocked with self-serving charlatans and ill-informed chancers, so it is a rare pleasure to find somebody like Aaron with integrity, intelligence and a deep-rooted knowledge of the London legal landscape.  He understands the need for commercial thinking, cultural nuance, innovative methodologies and plain hard graft.  We consider him to be a strong ally of the firm and we are glad to work in partnership with him on our most senior recruitment initiatives.

I have worked with Aaron for many years.  As a consultant he adds real value.  I seek out his views on market trends to inform my remuneration strategy.  He is selective in the CVs he submits but they always meet the brief.  He is thoroughly professional in dealing with all aspects of the recruitment process and is also great fun to work with.

I like dealing with Aaron. He is candid, effective and bullshit free.