Massachusetts
Legal recruiters in Massachusetts
By metro area
Massachusetts metro areas compared
Each metro area in Massachusetts 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boston | 24,846 | 3,049 | $244,660 | 14 |
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 Massachusetts
National(18 states)
Boston, MA · +25 more
- Litigation
- Corporate & M&A
- Tax, Trusts & Estates
Places paralegals & legal staff
Multi-state(2 states)Specialist
Boston, MA · +1 more
- Litigation
- Corporate & M&A
Places in-house counsel, paralegals & legal staff
National(17 states)Specialist
Boston, MA · +20 more
- Litigation
- Labor & Employment
Places in-house counsel
National(14 states)Specialist
Boston, MA · +18 more
- Litigation
- Intellectual Property
Places partners & groups, in-house counsel
Multi-state(4 states)Specialist
Boston, MA · +3 more
- Intellectual Property
Places paralegals & legal staff
Single officeSpecialist
Boston, MA
- Litigation
- Tax, Trusts & Estates
Places in-house counsel, paralegals & legal staff
- LS
- ES
The Massachusetts legal market in numbers
This directory tracks one metro in Massachusetts, Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH, which had 24,846 legal-sector jobs in Q4 2025. By that total, Massachusetts is the 9th largest of the 40 states with a tracked metro. That metro had 3,049 legal employers (establishments). Its average annual wage (the average weekly wage times 52) was $244,660.
14 firms in this directory list an office in Massachusetts, the 9th 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 14 legal recruiting firms with an office in Massachusetts states on its own website, and name the firms in each group in the same order as the list on this page.
By footprint
5 of the 14 have only one listed office, in Massachusetts, and 6 are national firms (offices in five or more states) with an office here. The other 3 are regional (1) and multi-state (2).
- Single office, 5 firms: Marc Z Legal Staffing, JOHNLEONARD, Legal Staffing Solutions, New England Legal Search, Executive Search Associates, Inc.
- Regional (two or more offices, all in one state), 1 firm: Stone Legal LLC
- Multi-state (offices in two to four states), 2 firms: Ave Staffing LLC, Hire Counsel Morrisville
- National (offices in five or more states), 6 firms: Scion Staffing, Latitude, Major Lindsey & Africa, Special Counsel, Reaction Search International Inc., Marsden Legal Search
Their offices in Massachusetts are in 4 cities. By the number of firms with an office there: Boston, MA (12), Cambridge, MA (1), Newton, MA (1) and Weston, MA (1).
By search model
7 of the 14 firms say on their own site what kind of search they run. 1 names both retained and contingency search, 1 names retained search and 5 name contract and temporary work only. 2 of the firms with a permanent search model also name contract or temporary work. 7 do not say.
- Retained and contingency, 1 firm: Scion Staffing
- Retained, 1 firm: Ave Staffing LLC
- Contract and temp, 5 firms: Latitude, Special Counsel, Hire Counsel Morrisville, Marc Z Legal Staffing, JOHNLEONARD
By level placed
By the levels they say they place: associates (1), partners and groups (4), in-house counsel (6) and paralegals and legal staff (4). A firm can name several. 3 name none.
Practice areas covered
The firms state 6 practice areas between them. The most stated are Litigation (7 of 14, 50%), Intellectual Property (3 of 14, 21%) and Tax, Trusts & Estates (3 of 14, 21%). 5 name no practice area.
| Practice area | Firms | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Litigation | 7 | 50% |
| Intellectual Property | 3 | 21% |
| Tax, Trusts & Estates | 3 | 21% |
| Corporate & M&A | 2 | 14% |
| Finance & Restructuring | 1 | 7% |
| Labor & Employment | 1 | 7% |
6 of the 14 firms state a founding year, from 1982 to 2016. No listing here has been claimed by its firm yet.
Largest listed firms by footprint
The 5 listed firms in Massachusetts 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.Latitude21 offices, 17 states
- 3.Major Lindsey & Africa19 offices, 14 states
- 4.Reaction Search International Inc.10 offices, 9 states
- 5.Special Counsel9 offices, 9 states
Practicing law in Massachusetts
- Admitting authority
- Massachusetts Board of Bar Examiners source
- Uniform Bar Exam
- Yes source
- Admission on motion
- Yes source
Checked against the National Conference of Bar Examiners.
Questions about legal recruiters in Massachusetts
- How many legal recruiters have an office in Massachusetts?
- 14 firms in this directory list an office in Massachusetts, as of their last check.
- How many Massachusetts legal recruiters have only one office?
- Of the 14 listed firms, 6 are national, 2 are multi-state, 1 is regional and 5 have only one listed office, in Massachusetts. 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 Massachusetts legal recruiters run retained searches?
- 2 of the 14 listed firms say on their own site that they run retained searches, 1 of them alongside contingency search. 5 name contract and temporary work only. 7 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 Massachusetts?
- By the number of listed firms that state them: Litigation (7 firms), Intellectual Property (3 firms), Tax, Trusts & Estates (3 firms) and Corporate & M&A (2 firms). The other 2 practice areas stated here are Finance & Restructuring (1) and Labor & Employment (1).
- Do Massachusetts legal recruiters place in-house counsel?
- 6 of the 14 listed firms say they place in-house counsel. By the other levels they name: associates (1), partners and groups (4) and paralegals and legal staff (4). 3 name no level.
- Which metro areas in Massachusetts have their own page?
- Boston, MA (14 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.