Arizona
Legal recruiters in Arizona
By metro area
Arizona metro areas compared
Each metro area in Arizona with its own page, largest legal market first. The Firms column counts listed firms with an office in that metro.
| Metro | Jobs | Employers | Avg. wage | Firms |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phoenix | 16,958 | 3,282 | $169,104 | 7 |
Jobs, employers and wage: BLS QCEW county files, private ownership, Q4 2024 vs Q4 2025. NAICS 5411, all legal-services employment, not attorneys alone. Wage is the average weekly wage times 52.
All firms with an office in Arizona
National(18 states)
Phoenix, AZ · +25 more
- Litigation
- Corporate & M&A
- Tax, Trusts & Estates
Places paralegals & legal staff
Single office
Phoenix, AZ
- Litigation
- Intellectual Property
- Labor & Employment
Places in-house counsel, paralegals & legal staff
- PR
Multi-state(4 states)
Phoenix, AZ · +3 more
Places paralegals & legal staff
Single office
Phoenix, AZ
Places in-house counsel, paralegals & legal staff
- HP
The Arizona legal market in numbers
This directory tracks 2 metros in Arizona: Phoenix and Tucson. Together they had 19,082 legal-sector jobs in Q4 2025. By that total, Arizona is the 12th largest of the 40 states with a tracked metro. The same metros had 3,848 legal employers (establishments). Their average annual wage, weighted by jobs (the average weekly wage times 52), was $164,676. Phoenix is the largest, with 89% of the jobs.
7 firms in this directory list an office in Arizona, the 18th most of the 29 states with a page here. One metro area in the state has its own page.
Source: BLS QCEW county files, private ownership, Q4 2024 vs Q4 2025, taken September 15, 2026. NAICS 5411, all legal-services employment, not attorneys alone.
Who is listed here
The groups below count what each of the 7 legal recruiting firms with an office in Arizona states on its own website, and name the firms in each group in the same order as the list on this page.
By footprint
4 of the 7 have only one listed office, in Arizona, and 1 is a national firm (offices in five or more states) with an office here. The other 2 are multi-state.
- Single office, 4 firms: The Morton Group, Sonja Cotton & Associates, LLC, ASG Legal Search and Staffing, HGB Professional Recruiting Solutions
- Multi-state (offices in two to four states), 2 firms: Eastridge Workforce Solutions, Professional Recruiters Group
- National (offices in five or more states), 1 firm: Scion Staffing
Every listed office in Arizona is in Phoenix, AZ.
By search model
3 of the 7 firms say on their own site what kind of search they run. 1 names both retained and contingency search and 2 name contract and temporary work only. 1 of the firms with a permanent search model also names contract or temporary work. 4 do not say.
- Retained and contingency, 1 firm: Scion Staffing
- Contract and temp, 2 firms: Eastridge Workforce Solutions, Sonja Cotton & Associates, LLC
By level placed
By the levels they say they place: in-house counsel (2) and paralegals and legal staff (4). A firm can name several. 3 name none.
Practice areas covered
The firms state 5 practice areas between them. The most stated are Litigation (2 of 7, 29%), Corporate & M&A (1 of 7, 14%) and Intellectual Property (1 of 7, 14%). 5 name no practice area.
| Practice area | Firms | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Litigation | 2 | 29% |
| Corporate & M&A | 1 | 14% |
| Intellectual Property | 1 | 14% |
| Labor & Employment | 1 | 14% |
| Tax, Trusts & Estates | 1 | 14% |
2 of the 7 firms state a founding year, from 2003 to 2006. No listing here has been claimed by its firm yet.
Largest listed firms by footprint
The 3 listed firms in Arizona with the most offices nationally, counting each city once and only firms with more than one office. Ties are broken A to Z by name.
- 1.Scion Staffing26 offices, 18 states
- 2.Eastridge Workforce Solutions6 offices, 4 states
- 3.Professional Recruiters Group4 offices, 4 states
Practicing law in Arizona
- Admitting authority
- Arizona Supreme Court Committees on Examinations and Character and Fitness source
- Uniform Bar Exam
- Yes source
- Admission on motion
- Yes source
Checked against the National Conference of Bar Examiners.
Questions about legal recruiters in Arizona
- How many legal recruiters have an office in Arizona?
- 7 firms in this directory list an office in Arizona, as of their last check.
- How many Arizona legal recruiters have only one office?
- Of the 7 listed firms, 1 is national, 2 are multi-state and 4 have only one listed office, in Arizona. Offices are counted nationally: a regional firm has two or more offices in one state, a multi-state firm has offices in two to four states, and a national firm has offices in five or more.
- How many Arizona legal recruiters run retained searches?
- 1 of the 7 listed firms says on its own site that it runs retained searches, alongside contingency search. 2 name contract and temporary work only. 4 do not say. Most legal recruiting is done on contingency, where the hiring firm pays only when it hires.
- Which practice areas have the most coverage in Arizona?
- By the number of listed firms that state them: Litigation (2 firms), Corporate & M&A (1 firm), Intellectual Property (1 firm) and Labor & Employment (1 firm). The other 1 practice area stated here is Tax, Trusts & Estates (1).
- Do Arizona legal recruiters place in-house counsel?
- 2 of the 7 listed firms say they place in-house counsel. By the other levels they name: paralegals and legal staff (4). 3 name no level.
- Which metro areas in Arizona have their own page?
- Phoenix, AZ (7 firms).
- How is this list ordered?
- By a published rule: listings claimed by their firm come first, then listings with more complete profiles, then A to Z by name. No firm is placed by hand, including Voll Recruiting, which operates this site.
- When was this list last checked?
- Every listing here was last checked against the firm's own website on October 1, 2026. The market figures are from BLS QCEW county files, private ownership, Q4 2024 vs Q4 2025, taken on September 15, 2026. The bar admission facts were checked against the National Conference of Bar Examiners on October 4, 2026.