Errington Legal are a Cambridge founded and headquartered legal headhunter with an active presence in the city and local organisations. With hands-on experience helping Cambridge companies and law firms grow since 2013, Errington Legal offer services for both the in-house and practice sides of the market, and have particular capability in executive search for senior positions, as well as now offering a local fractional lawyer service.
Georgia Morgan-Wynne, Taylor Root
Georgia leads Taylor Root’s in-house team, part of a global legal recruitment business that has been a market leader for more than 35 years.
With over 15 years of experience in the senior legal executive search market, she has developed deep expertise in high growth environments, successfully placing lawyers across scale ups through to multinational conglomerates, supporting them in building and strengthening their legal functions. She is passionate about designing hiring processes that deliver exceptional outcomes and about building long term, trusted partnerships with her clients.
Georgia has a particular interest in the Cambridge region, partnering with technology, life sciences, deep tech and research driven organisations across the cluster. She understands the unique talent demands of this ecosystem and works closely with leadership teams to secure legal professionals who can thrive in innovation led environments. She specialises in partnering with C Suite leaders to appoint first time legal hires at critical inflexion points in a company’s growth journey. Leading a team of specialist recruiters, Georgia is able to deliver permanent and interim legal talent at pace for General Counsels, from paralegals to experts in employment, AI, data privacy, regulatory, commercial, corporate, IP and life sciences.
Chris Ewles, LHH
Senior Business Manager and specialist In-House Legal Recruiter at LHH Recruitment Solutions (formerly Badenoch + Clark), the world’s leading talent development and career solutions business.
Based in Cambridge, Chris leads LHH’s legal recruitment offering in the region and works closely with a loyal and established client base across Cambridge and the wider East Anglia market.
With extensive experience delivering permanent and interim in-house legal solutions, Chris partners with organisations ranging from high-growth SMEs to FTSE 100 and global corporates. He has built long-standing relationships with clients across some of Cambridge’s most prominent and fast-growing sectors, including life sciences and pharma, technology and deep tech, education and research institutions, not-for-profit organisations, clean tech, advanced manufacturing and engineering.
Chris has a strong connection to the local legal community with LHH an active sponsor of Cambridgeshire Law Society events, reflecting his commitment to supporting and developing the regional legal ecosystem. As part of LHH’s global legal recruitment platform, he draws on the scale, insight and international reach of a business that has been a market leader in professional recruitment for decades.
He specialises in advising businesses on a consultative basis at key stages of growth, supporting leadership teams with first-time in-house legal hires, team build-outs and strategic appointments. Chris works closely with C-suite stakeholders, General Counsel and Heads of Legal, delivering talent solutions across the full spectrum of in-house legal roles. This includes; Paralegals and Legal Advisors through to Legal Counsel (all levels), Heads of Legal and General Counsel, as well as Company Secretaries, Contracts Managers, Commercial Contracts Specialists, Compliance and Data Privacy specialists.
In addition to their In-House offering, the Cambridge office also supports private practice firms across the region, advising on Partner, Legal Director, Solicitor and Legal Executive appointments. Chris and the team are known for their pragmatic, relationship-driven approach, building long-term, trusted partnerships and designing hiring processes that deliver strong, sustainable outcomes for both clients and candidates.