Legal recruiters in New York

The New York legal market in numbers

This directory tracks 5 metros in New York: New York, Buffalo, Albany, Rochester and Syracuse. Together they had 125,238 legal-sector jobs in Q4 2025. By that total, New York is the 2nd largest of the 40 states with a tracked metro. The same metros had 11,683 legal employers (establishments). Their average annual wage, weighted by jobs (the average weekly wage times 52), was $253,399. New York is the largest, with 89% of the jobs.

55 firms in this directory list an office in New York, the 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 55 legal recruiting firms with an office in New York states on its own website, and name the firms in each group in the same order as the list on this page.

By footprint

39 of the 55 have only one listed office, in New York, and 7 are national firms (offices in five or more states) with an office here. The other 9 are regional (2) and multi-state (7).

• Single office, 39 firms: Taylor Root, E.P. Dine Inc., McClure Harrison Inc., Valiant Search LLC, Audrey Golden & Associates, Ltd., Empire Search Partners, LLC, Rutherford Search, The Davis Group, David Carrie LLC, Key Resource Group, LLC, Lewis Search Group, Meridian Legal Search, Stofsky & Schiller, Inc, BarkerGilmore LLC, H3 Counsel, Henderson Scott, Michael Lord & Company, LLC, On-Balance ltd, Spencer Legal Search LLC, Tobey Delano Consulting, LLC, Cardinal Search Partners LLC, Gainor, Glenmont Group, Hanover Legal Personnel Services, Inc., London Legal Search, LRG International, New York Legal Staffing, Inc., North Castle Recruiting, LLC, Schneider Legal Search, The JBar Group, Artemis Group Ltd., Carol O Neil & Associates, Chassman Associates, Ginsberg Schramm Inc., Manor Partners LLC, MER Search Group LLC, Preferred Placement, Inc., Silverpoint Legal Search, Springboard Search Group LLP
• Regional (two or more offices, all in one state), 2 firms: Attorney Placements International LLC, Elite Laterals
• Multi-state (offices in two to four states), 7 firms: Macrae, The Foster Group Legal Search, Engle, Lindsley & Regan Legal Search Consultants, Ikon Search, Mestel & Company, The Mara Group, Interlink Talent Solutions
• National (offices in five or more states), 7 firms: Scion Staffing, Latitude, Major Lindsey & Africa, The PeterSan Group, Snelling Staffing of Baton Rouge, Yorkson Legal, Marsden Legal Search

Their offices in New York are in 15 cities. By the number of firms with an office there: New York, NY (45), Brooklyn, NY (2), Buffalo, NY (2), Ardsley, NY (1), Avoca, NY (1), Binghamton, NY (1), Bronx, NY (1) and Garden City, NY (1), and 7 others.

By search model

16 of the 55 firms say on their own site what kind of search they run. 2 name both retained and contingency search, 3 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. 39 do not say.

• Retained and contingency, 2 firms: Scion Staffing, Macrae
• Retained, 3 firms: Taylor Root, Ikon Search, Rutherford Search
• Contingency, 4 firms: The PeterSan Group, E.P. Dine Inc., Stofsky & Schiller, Inc, The Mara Group
• Contract and temp, 7 firms: Latitude, Snelling Staffing of Baton Rouge, Yorkson Legal, David Carrie LLC, Key Resource Group, LLC, Lewis Search Group, Hanover Legal Personnel Services, Inc.

By level placed

By the levels they say they place: associates (12), partners and groups (17), in-house counsel (22) and paralegals and legal staff (17). A firm can name several. 15 name none.

Practice areas covered

The firms state 8 practice areas between them. The most stated are Labor & Employment (11 of 55, 20%), Litigation (10 of 55, 18%) and Corporate & M&A (9 of 55, 16%). 32 name no practice area.

7 of the 55 firms state a founding year, from 1972 to 2021. No listing here has been claimed by its firm yet.

Largest listed firms by footprint

The 5 listed firms in New York 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. 1.Scion Staffing26 offices, 18 states
2. 2.Snelling Staffing of Baton Rouge25 offices, 15 states
3. 3.Yorkson Legal25 offices, 10 states
4. 4.Latitude21 offices, 17 states
5. 5.Major Lindsey & Africa19 offices, 14 states

Questions about legal recruiters in New York

How many legal recruiters have an office in New York?

55 firms in this directory list an office in New York, as of their last check.

How many New York legal recruiters have only one office?

Of the 55 listed firms, 7 are national, 7 are multi-state, 2 are regional and 39 have only one listed office, in New York. 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 New York legal recruiters run retained searches?

5 of the 55 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. 39 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 New York?

By the number of listed firms that state them: Labor & Employment (11 firms), Litigation (10 firms), Corporate & M&A (9 firms) and Finance & Restructuring (5 firms). The other 4 practice areas stated here are Tax, Trusts & Estates (5), Intellectual Property (3), Regulatory (3) and Real Estate (2).

Do New York legal recruiters place in-house counsel?

22 of the 55 listed firms say they place in-house counsel. By the other levels they name: associates (12), partners and groups (17) and paralegals and legal staff (17). 15 name no level.

Which metro areas in New York 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.