Counsel Connect

About Us

Grounded in WA. Connected Across the Legal and Corporate World.

Who We Are

At Counsel Connect, we specialise in delivering exceptional secondment and permanent recruitment solutions across Legal, Executive, and HR functions. As a proudly Western Australian business, we are grounded in the local market and led by the most experienced team in the State. Our deep understanding of WA’s corporate, resources, government, and professional services sectors allows us to provide flexible, tailored solutions that meet the unique needs of both corporates and private practice firms.

Our founders, Kristy Campbell and Ken Jagger, each bring more than 20 years of experience in the Western Australian market. Their reputation is built on forging long- standing, trusted relationships with both clients and candidates, creating a network that is unrivalled in depth and quality. At Counsel Connect, we don’t just fill roles — we take the time to understand the context of your business, your team culture, and your long-term objectives to ensure the right fit, every time.

Whether you need a commercial lawyer on secondment to support a major project, an interim CFO to guide your business through a transaction, or a strategic HR partner to drive change and transformation, Counsel Connect has the reach and expertise to connect you with the right people at the right time.

Our Specialties

  • Legal Secondments & Permanent Recruitment – from junior lawyers through to senior counsel, across all commercial practice areas.
  • Executive Secondments & Permanent Recruitment – connecting corporates with high-calibre C-suite leaders and senior executives.
  • Workplace Investigations & HR Advisory – providing independent investigations, policy and compliance expertise, and strategic HR secondments.

With Counsel Connect, you gain more than a recruitment partner — you gain a trusted advisor who is deeply embedded in WA’s business landscape, with a track record of delivering results for some of the State’s most respected organisations.

Our Team

Kristy Campbell - Managing Director

Kristy is the founder and Managing Director of Counsel Connect. Kristy has over 20 years experience in legal and executive recruiting and has developed a deep network of in-house lawyers, legal
counsel, executives and corporate management teams in the WA market.

Her strength is in advising listed and privately owned companies in relation to their strategic resourcing needs, culture development and people management.

Prior to founding Counsel Connect, Kristy was Head of the Perth office of Lawyers On Demand responsible for a large team providing flexible legal resources to its corporate clients.

Before joining Lawyers on Demand, Kristy ran her own consultancy and has held management roles in several law firms and in international and boutique recruitment companies.
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Ken Jagger - Chair

Ken is the Chair of Counsel Connect and a pioneer of the alternative legal services sector. Ken was a founder of Lawyers On Demand a global legal services business. From a start-up in Western Australia
in 2008, Ken led the business through national and international expansion, multiple mergers and acquisitions, investment from UK private equity house Bowmark Capital, and ultimately to a successful sale to Consilio LLC in 2023.

Prior to establishing LOD, Ken was a partner at Herbert Smith Freehills specialising in the delivery of projects in the Western Australian energy, resources and infrastructure sectors.
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Rebecca Taseff - Head of WorkplaceConnect

Rebecca brings over 25 years’ employment law experience at senior levels in private practice and in-house, to the sensitive and complex workplace investigations and culture reviews she leads for Counsel
Connect.

She has broad-ranging experience conducting workplace investigations for a range of organisations, across the private sector, as well as for government agencies and the not-for-profit sector.

Rebecca has been an Adjunct Lecturer at the College of Law and has lectured on HR management and employment law at several Western Australian universities. She is also a founding member of the Perth circle of the Australasian Association of Workplace Investigators and remains actively involved.
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Chloe Walsh - Senior Advisor

Chloe is an experienced HR professional across legal, oil and gas and not for profit sectors. Operating in senior HR and talent roles within the legal sector for the past 10 years, Chloe brings a strong

understanding of the Australian legal market, in-house secondments, and best practice HR and legal talent management.

Chloe is experienced working with Partners and senior executives providing both strategic and generalist HR business partner advice, delivering cyclical HR processes and implementing HR projects.

Leading graduate recruitment campaigns and managing all HR aspects of a graduate lifecycle within a top tier firm.

She also provided strategic HR consulting to a not-for-profit organisation on remuneration, retention, and talent management frameworks.

Chloe holds a Masters in Human Resource Management and applies a commercial and analytical approach when influencing and managing stakeholders.

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What our Clients say About us

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