San Jose, CA
Legal recruiters in San Jose
The San Jose legal market
- Legal-sector jobs
- 6,823
- 35th largest legal market of 73 tracked
- 1.1x the median metro
- Legal employers
- 939
- 38th most legal employers of 73 metros tracked
- 92% of the median metro
- Average annual wage (weekly x 52)
- $286,676
- 2nd highest of 73 metros tracked
- 76% 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 San Jose area
- M
Multi-state(2 states)Specialist
Palo Alto, CA · +3 more
- Corporate & M&A
- Finance & Restructuring
Places partners & groups
National(14 states)Specialist
Palo Alto, CA · +18 more
- Litigation
- Intellectual Property
Places partners & groups, in-house counsel
Single officeGeneralist
Palo Alto, CA
- Litigation
- Corporate & M&A
- Intellectual Property
- Labor & Employment
- +1 more
Places associates, partners & groups
Search types are what each firm says on its own site: retained search, contingency search, contract & temporary.
The San Jose legal market in numbers
The San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA metro area had 6,823 legal-sector jobs in Q4 2025. That is the 35th largest legal market of the 73 metros this directory tracks, and 1.1x the median metro, which had 6,428. It had 939 legal employers (establishments), the 38th most of 73 and 92% of the median metro. That is 137.6 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 $286,676, the 2nd highest of 73 metros and 76% above the median metro, which paid $162,708. Compared with Q4 2024, legal-sector jobs fell 0.5% and the average weekly wage rose 1.3%.
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 5% of them were in the San Jose metro. 3 firms in this directory list an office in the San Jose area, the 33rd 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 3 legal recruiting firms with an office in the San Jose 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
1 of the 3 has only one listed office, in the San Jose area, and 1 is a national firm (offices in five or more states) with an office here. The other 1 is multi-state.
- Single office, 1 firm: Levenson Schweitzer Attorney Placement, Inc.
- Multi-state (offices in two to four states), 1 firm: Macrae
- National (offices in five or more states), 1 firm: Major Lindsey & Africa
Every listed office in the San Jose area is in Palo Alto, CA.
By search model
1 of the 3 firms say on their own site what kind of search they run. 1 names both retained and contingency search. 2 do not say.
- Retained and contingency, 1 firm: Macrae
By level placed
By the levels they say they place: associates (1), partners and groups (3) and in-house counsel (1). A firm can name several. Every firm names at least one.
Practice areas covered
The firms state 5 practice areas between them. The most stated are Corporate & M&A (2 of 3, 67%), Finance & Restructuring (2 of 3, 67%) and Intellectual Property (2 of 3, 67%).
| Practice area | Firms | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Corporate & M&A | 2 | 67% |
| Finance & Restructuring | 2 | 67% |
| Intellectual Property | 2 | 67% |
| Litigation | 2 | 67% |
| Labor & Employment | 1 | 33% |
No listing here has been claimed by its firm yet.
Largest listed firms by footprint
The 2 listed firms in the San Jose 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.Major Lindsey & Africa19 offices, 14 states
- 2.Macrae4 offices, 2 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 San Jose legal recruiters
- How many legal recruiters have an office in San Jose?
- 3 firms in this directory list an office in the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA metro area, as of their last check.
- How many San Jose legal recruiters have only one office?
- Of the 3 listed firms, 1 is national, 1 is multi-state and 1 has only one listed office, in San Jose. 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 San Jose legal recruiters run retained searches?
- 1 of the 3 listed firms says on its own site that it runs retained searches, alongside contingency search. 2 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 San Jose?
- By the number of listed firms that state them: Corporate & M&A (2 firms), Finance & Restructuring (2 firms), Intellectual Property (2 firms) and Litigation (2 firms). The other 1 practice area stated here is Labor & Employment (1).
- Do San Jose legal recruiters place in-house counsel?
- 1 of the 3 listed firms says it places in-house counsel. By the other levels they name: associates (1) and partners and groups (3).
- Which markets near San Jose have their own page?
- San Francisco, CA (17 firms), Los Angeles, CA (38 firms) and San Diego, CA (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.