About Prima Facie

A boutique recruitment partner built on quality, not volume.

Prima Facie Legal Talent Acquisition is a specialist legal recruitment firm focused primarily on the Australian market. Our core work spans private practice and in-house legal, alongside selected company secretarial, corporate governance, legal operations and legal business-services appointments. We also work selectively across the United Kingdom, Singapore and New Zealand where there is a genuine mandate and market fit.

We work with mid-tier, national and boutique law firms, businesses building or strengthening in-house legal and governance functions, and selected professional or advisory organisations operating around the legal market. Australia remains our core market. Every introduction is considered, researched and genuinely matched.

The name says it all. In law, prima facie means the evidence speaks for itself. That's the standard we hold ourselves to — whether we're representing a candidate to a firm, or a firm's opportunity to a candidate.

What We Stand For

Three values. No exceptions.

Integrity

We don't mislead candidates or clients to close a placement faster. If a role isn't right, we say so — even when it costs us.

Relationships

Every placement is the start of a relationship, not the end of a transaction. We're invested in the outcome long after a hire is made.

Excellence

Quality over volume, every time. We'd rather make one excellent introduction than ten that weren't properly considered.

The Team

People who genuinely care about the outcome.

Founder

Jason Houston

Director

I started Prima Facie because I wanted to be the recruiter I wished existed.

Before moving into recruitment, I spent seven years in real estate. During that time I experienced recruitment from the candidate side more than once. Most interactions felt impersonal and transactional. Then I dealt with one recruiter who approached things very differently. They listened, were straightforward with me and took the time to understand what I actually wanted rather than simply steering me towards an available role.

That experience stayed with me when I eventually moved into recruitment. It shaped the way I wanted to work: understand the person or business first, know the market, communicate honestly and only make an introduction where there is a genuine reason to believe it makes sense.

Email Jason → +61 414 935 024

Ready to work together?

Whether you're considering your next move or hiring into a legal, governance or legal-business function — let's have a conversation.

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