Boston, MA
Legal recruiters in Boston
The Boston legal market
- Legal-sector jobs
- 24,846
- 11th largest legal market of 73 tracked
- 3.9x the median metro
- Legal employers
- 3,049
- 10th most legal employers of 73 metros tracked
- 3.0x the median metro
- Average annual wage (weekly x 52)
- $244,660
- 6th highest of 73 metros tracked
- 50% 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 Boston area
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
Search types are what each firm says on its own site: retained search, contingency search, contract & temporary.
The Boston legal market in numbers
The Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro area had 24,846 legal-sector jobs in Q4 2025. That is the 11th largest legal market of the 73 metros this directory tracks, and 3.9x the median metro, which had 6,428. It had 3,049 legal employers (establishments), the 10th most of 73 and 3.0x the median metro. That is 122.7 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 $244,660, the 6th highest of 73 metros and 50% above the median metro, which paid $162,708. Compared with Q4 2024, legal-sector jobs rose 2.4% and the average weekly wage rose 6.7%.
14 firms in this directory list an office in the Boston area, the 10th 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 14 legal recruiting firms with an office in the Boston 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
5 of the 14 have only one listed office, in the Boston area, 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 the Boston area 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 the Boston 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.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.
Nearby markets
Every firm with an office anywhere in Massachusetts is on the Massachusetts page.
Questions about Boston legal recruiters
- How many legal recruiters have an office in Boston?
- 14 firms in this directory list an office in the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro area, as of their last check.
- How many Boston 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 Boston. 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 Boston 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 Boston?
- 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 Boston 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 markets near Boston have their own page?
- New York, NY (55 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.