Our People
Taylor Root invests significant resources into hiring and training people of the highest quality.
The majority of our recruiters have had a legal training, many having qualified as lawyers from a range of law firms including Freshfields, Linklaters, Freehills, Herbert Smith, Minter Ellison, Clifford Chance, Norton Rose, Lovells, CMS Cameron Mckenna, Phillips Fox, Ashurst, Hammonds, Simpson Grierson, Travers Smith, Berwin Leighton Paisner, RPC and Memory Crystal.
We pride ourselves on providing a highly ethical and professsional service always taking a long term view.
The Taylor Root Hong Kong team are:
Michael Luckett - Private Practice
Michael graduated from UMIST with a degree in International Management and French and then completed his CPE and LPC at the College of law, Guildford. Michael qualified into Ashurst's employment group before starting his recruitment career at Garfield Robbins in July 2004. Michael joined the London private practice team in June 2005 and worked there for seven months before joining the Hong Kong office's private practice team in January 2006.
Rebecca Rogers - Private Practice
Rebecca graduated from Oxford University in 2003 where she read Jurisprudence. After completing the LPC in Oxford, she trained with Freshfields in London. Rebecca spent the last six months of her training contract on secondment to the Hong Kong office of Freshfields, and on qualification in February 2007, joined Taylor Root's Private Practice team in Hong Kong.
Andrew Wallace - Private Practice
Andrew graduated from University with a Bachelor of Economics and a Bachelor of Laws. He started a company and successfully ran his own business for two years before joining a leading legal recruitment firm in Australia. He subsequently joined Taylor Root in January 2008 and works on the private practice team in the Hong Kong office.
Hayden Gordine - In-house
Hayden graduated with law and commerce degrees from the University of Otago, New Zealand and was a admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand in 2003. Hayden practised in the corporate department of a top Auckland law firm and upon relocating to London, Hayden had stints with UK and US law firms before joining Taylor Root. In London, Hayden was a member of the interim team covering banking and finance services before recently relocating to the Hong Kong office to focus on the recruitment of lawyers of all levels into in-house and banking positions in the Asia region.
Laurence Munoz - In-house
Laurence is a UK and Australian-qualified lawyer, with experience of working in-house as a legal adviser for a finance company for two years before moving into specialist legal recruitment in 1995. After heading up the legal division of a boutique search and selection firm in London, Laurence joined Heidrick & Struggles in 2000 and concentrated on senior level Search assignments for major International law firms and corporations. She was transferred to their Hong Kong office in 2002 to help build their Asian legal search capability. Laurence is currently with Taylor Root's Hong Kong office where she heads the In-house and Banking division. She has a successful track record of recruiting General Counsel and senior legal advisers for leading Investment Banks and multinationals.
Liam Richardson - In-house
Liam graduated from the University of Leicester with a law degree before completing his LPC in London in 2004. He joined the graduate programme at Taylor Root in September of that year and upon successful completion became a consultant working on legal recruitment into corporates, financial services and investment banks. In January 2006 Liam relocated to Taylor Root's Hong Kong office where he focuses on the recruitment of lawyers and compliance personnel into in-house and banking positions in the Asia region.