Los Angeles, CA
Legal recruiters in Los Angeles
The Los Angeles legal market
- Legal-sector jobs
- 84,939
- 2nd largest legal market of 73 tracked
- 13.2x the median metro
- Legal employers
- 12,619
- Most legal employers of 73 metros tracked
- 12.3x the median metro
- Average annual wage (weekly x 52)
- $203,944
- 16th highest of 73 metros tracked
- 25% above the median metro
Source: BLS QCEW county files, private ownership, Q4 2024 vs Q4 2025. NAICS 5411, all legal-services employment, not attorneys alone.
Practice areas covered here
Firms with an office in the Los Angeles area
National(18 states)
Los Angeles, CA · +25 more
- Litigation
- Corporate & M&A
- Tax, Trusts & Estates
Places paralegals & legal staff
- M
Multi-state(2 states)Specialist
Los Angeles, CA · +3 more
- Corporate & M&A
- Finance & Restructuring
Places partners & groups
Multi-state(2 states)Generalist
Los Angeles, CA · +1 more
- Litigation
- Intellectual Property
- Real Estate
- Tax, Trusts & Estates
- +4 more
Places associates, in-house counsel, paralegals & legal staff
Single officeSpecialist
Los Angeles, CA
- Real Estate
Places partners & groups, in-house counsel
National(14 states)Specialist
Los Angeles, CA · Irvine, CA · +17 more
- Litigation
- Intellectual Property
Places partners & groups, in-house counsel
National(5 states)Specialist
El Segundo, CA · +4 more
- Labor & Employment
Places associates, partners & groups, in-house counsel, paralegals & legal staff
Single office
Los Angeles, CA
- Corporate & M&A
- Labor & Employment
- Regulatory
Places associates, partners & groups, in-house counsel
Single office
Glendale, CA
- Corporate & M&A
- Intellectual Property
- Tax, Trusts & Estates
- Labor & Employment
Places partners & groups, in-house counsel, paralegals & legal staff
Single officeSpecialist
Los Angeles, CA
- Litigation
Places associates, in-house counsel
National(10 states)Specialist
Brea, CA · Burbank, CA · +23 more
- Litigation
Places paralegals & legal staff
Single office
Marina del Rey, CA
Places associates, in-house counsel, paralegals & legal staff
- RL
Multi-state(2 states)
Laguna Hills, CA · +1 more
Places paralegals & legal staff
- AL
- EI
- SG
- SE
Search types are what each firm says on its own site: retained search, contingency search, contract & temporary.
The Los Angeles legal market in numbers
The Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro area had 84,939 legal-sector jobs in Q4 2025. That is the 2nd largest legal market of the 73 metros this directory tracks, and 13.2x the median metro, which had 6,428. It had 12,619 legal employers (establishments), the most of 73 and 12.3x the median metro. That is 148.6 legal employers for every 1,000 legal-sector jobs, against 156.0 in the median metro. The average annual wage in the legal sector (the average weekly wage times 52) was $203,944, the 16th highest of 73 metros and 25% above the median metro, which paid $162,708. Compared with Q4 2024, legal-sector jobs rose 5.5% and the average weekly wage rose 5.7%.
This directory tracks 5 metros in California: Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, San Jose and Riverside. Together they had 137,463 legal-sector jobs, and 62% of them were in the Los Angeles metro. 38 firms in this directory list an office in the Los Angeles area, the 2nd most of the 37 metros with a page here.
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 38 legal recruiting firms with an office in the Los Angeles area states on its own website, and name the firms in each group in the same order as the list on this page.
By footprint
27 of the 38 have only one listed office, in the Los Angeles area, and 6 are national firms (offices in five or more states) with an office here. The other 5 are regional (1) and multi-state (4).
- Single office, 27 firms: Lateral Link, Above the Bar Legal Recruiting, Direct Counsel, Pacific Legal Search, Inc., Estrin Legal Staffing, Mission Recruiting, LLC, Counseling Counsels LLC, Crew Connectors, Engage Attorney Search, LegalWorks, Reece Legal Search, Inc., AGG Legal Staffing, ca legal search, Garb Jaffe & Associates Legal Placement, LLC, Le Grand Legal Search, SeltzerFontaine LLC, The Portfolio Group Inc., AttorneyMatchmaker, Hire Remote Legal Staff, KimberCo Recruiting, Ltd., Seltzer Fontaine Beckwith, Advocate Legal Search, Esquire, Inc., Levitt & Associates, Sharon Gerber Attorney Search, Superior Executive and Legal Recruiting, The Jameson Group
- Regional (two or more offices, all in one state), 1 firm: D3 Search
- Multi-state (offices in two to four states), 4 firms: Macrae, Permanent Placements LLC, Eastridge Workforce Solutions, Kissinger Legal Search, Inc.
- National (offices in five or more states), 6 firms: Scion Staffing, Major Lindsey & Africa, The PeterSan Group, Yorkson Legal, Reaction Search International Inc., Marsden Legal Search
Their offices in the Los Angeles area are in 22 cities. By the number of firms with an office there: Los Angeles, CA (20), Irvine, CA (3), Century City, CA (2), Glendale, CA (2), Newport Beach, CA (2), Beverly Hills, CA (1), Brea, CA (1) and Burbank, CA (1), and 14 others.
By search model
15 of the 38 firms say on their own site what kind of search they run. 2 name both retained and contingency search, 2 name retained search, 4 name contingency search and 7 name contract and temporary work only. 4 of the firms with a permanent search model also name contract or temporary work. 23 do not say.
- Retained and contingency, 2 firms: Scion Staffing, Macrae
- Retained, 2 firms: Mission Recruiting, LLC, Counseling Counsels LLC
- Contingency, 4 firms: Lateral Link, The PeterSan Group, Estrin Legal Staffing, KimberCo Recruiting, Ltd.
- Contract and temp, 7 firms: Permanent Placements LLC, Direct Counsel, D3 Search, Yorkson Legal, Eastridge Workforce Solutions, Crew Connectors, Reece Legal Search, Inc.
By level placed
By the levels they say they place: associates (7), partners and groups (12), in-house counsel (12) and paralegals and legal staff (12). A firm can name several. 12 name none.
Practice areas covered
The firms state 9 practice areas between them. The most stated are Litigation (9 of 38, 24%), Labor & Employment (6 of 38, 16%) and Corporate & M&A (5 of 38, 13%). 21 name no practice area.
| Practice area | Firms | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Litigation | 9 | 24% |
| Labor & Employment | 6 | 16% |
| Corporate & M&A | 5 | 13% |
| Regulatory | 4 | 11% |
| Intellectual Property | 3 | 8% |
| Tax, Trusts & Estates | 3 | 8% |
| Finance & Restructuring | 2 | 5% |
| Real Estate | 2 | 5% |
| Health Care & Life Sciences | 1 | 3% |
8 of the 38 firms state a founding year, from 1987 to 2024. No listing here has been claimed by its firm yet.
Largest listed firms by footprint
The 5 listed firms in the Los Angeles area 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.Yorkson Legal25 offices, 10 states
- 3.Major Lindsey & Africa19 offices, 14 states
- 4.Reaction Search International Inc.10 offices, 9 states
- 5.Eastridge Workforce Solutions6 offices, 4 states
Practicing law in California
- Admitting authority
- State Bar of California Office of Admissions source
- Uniform Bar Exam
- No source
- Admission on motion
- No source
Checked against the National Conference of Bar Examiners.
Nearby markets
Every firm with an office anywhere in California is on the California page.
Questions about Los Angeles legal recruiters
- How many legal recruiters have an office in Los Angeles?
- 38 firms in this directory list an office in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro area, as of their last check.
- How many Los Angeles legal recruiters have only one office?
- Of the 38 listed firms, 6 are national, 4 are multi-state, 1 is regional and 27 have only one listed office, in Los Angeles. 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 Los Angeles legal recruiters run retained searches?
- 4 of the 38 listed firms say on their own site that they run retained searches, 2 of them alongside contingency search. 4 name contingency search only. 7 name contract and temporary work only. 23 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 Los Angeles?
- By the number of listed firms that state them: Litigation (9 firms), Labor & Employment (6 firms), Corporate & M&A (5 firms) and Regulatory (4 firms). The other 5 practice areas stated here are Intellectual Property (3), Tax, Trusts & Estates (3), Finance & Restructuring (2), Real Estate (2) and Health Care & Life Sciences (1).
- Do Los Angeles legal recruiters place in-house counsel?
- 12 of the 38 listed firms say they place in-house counsel. By the other levels they name: associates (7), partners and groups (12) and paralegals and legal staff (12). 12 name no level.
- Which markets near Los Angeles have their own page?
- San Diego, CA (7 firms), San Jose, CA (3 firms) and San Francisco, CA (17 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.