Minnesota
Legal recruiters in Minnesota
By metro area
Minnesota metro areas compared
Each metro area in Minnesota 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minneapolis | 14,459 | 1,580 | $198,588 | 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 Minnesota
National(18 states)
Edina, MN · +25 more
- Litigation
- Corporate & M&A
- Tax, Trusts & Estates
Places paralegals & legal staff
National(17 states)Specialist
Minneapolis, MN · +20 more
- Litigation
- Labor & Employment
Places in-house counsel
National(14 states)Specialist
St Paul, MN · +18 more
- Litigation
- Intellectual Property
Places partners & groups, in-house counsel
National(9 states)Specialist
Minneapolis, MN · +8 more
- Litigation
Places partners & groups
- AC
The Minnesota legal market in numbers
This directory tracks one metro in Minnesota, Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI, which had 14,459 legal-sector jobs in Q4 2025. By that total, Minnesota is the 17th largest of the 40 states with a tracked metro. That metro had 1,580 legal employers (establishments). Its average annual wage (the average weekly wage times 52) was $198,588.
7 firms in this directory list an office in Minnesota, 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 Minnesota 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 7 has only one listed office, in Minnesota, and 4 are national firms (offices in five or more states) with an office here. The other 2 are regional (1) and multi-state (1).
- Single office, 1 firm: Attorney Coaching & Recruiting
- Regional (two or more offices, all in one state), 1 firm: Sand Search Partners, Ltd.
- Multi-state (offices in two to four states), 1 firm: Quaero Group
- National (offices in five or more states), 4 firms: Scion Staffing, Latitude, Major Lindsey & Africa, Special Counsel
Their offices in Minnesota are in 4 cities. By the number of firms with an office there: Minneapolis, MN (4), Edina, MN (2), Eden Prairie, MN (1) and St Paul, MN (1).
By search model
4 of the 7 firms say on their own site what kind of search they run. 1 names both retained and contingency search, 1 names retained search and 2 name contract and temporary work only. 1 of the firms with a permanent search model also names contract or temporary work. 3 do not say.
- Retained and contingency, 1 firm: Scion Staffing
- Retained, 1 firm: Quaero Group
- Contract and temp, 2 firms: Latitude, Special Counsel
By level placed
By the levels they say they place: associates (1), partners and groups (3), in-house counsel (4) and paralegals and legal staff (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 Litigation (4 of 7, 57%), Corporate & M&A (1 of 7, 14%) and Intellectual Property (1 of 7, 14%). 3 name no practice area.
| Practice area | Firms | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Litigation | 4 | 57% |
| 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 2000 to 2006. No listing here has been claimed by its firm yet.
Largest listed firms by footprint
The 5 listed firms in Minnesota 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.Special Counsel9 offices, 9 states
- 5.Quaero Group4 offices, 4 states
Practicing law in Minnesota
- Admitting authority
- Minnesota State Board of Law 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 Minnesota
- How many legal recruiters have an office in Minnesota?
- 7 firms in this directory list an office in Minnesota, as of their last check.
- How many Minnesota legal recruiters have only one office?
- Of the 7 listed firms, 4 are national, 1 is multi-state, 1 is regional and 1 has only one listed office, in Minnesota. 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 Minnesota legal recruiters run retained searches?
- 2 of the 7 listed firms say on their own site that they run retained searches, 1 of them alongside contingency search. 2 name contract and temporary work only. 3 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 Minnesota?
- By the number of listed firms that state them: Litigation (4 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 Minnesota legal recruiters place in-house counsel?
- 4 of the 7 listed firms say they place in-house counsel. By the other levels they name: associates (1), partners and groups (3) and paralegals and legal staff (1).
- Which metro areas in Minnesota have their own page?
- Minneapolis, MN (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.