Philadelphia, PA
Legal recruiters in Philadelphia
The Philadelphia legal market
- Legal-sector jobs
- 25,502
- 9th largest legal market of 73 tracked
- 4.0x the median metro
- Legal employers
- 2,470
- 14th most legal employers of 73 metros tracked
- 2.4x the median metro
- Average annual wage (weekly x 52)
- $257,088
- 4th highest of 73 metros tracked
- 58% 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 Philadelphia area
Regional
Plymouth Meeting, PA · Conshohocken, PA
- Litigation
- Tax, Trusts & Estates
- Labor & Employment
Places partners & groups, in-house counsel, paralegals & legal staff
Multi-state(2 states)
Hockessin, DE · +1 more
- Litigation
- Tax, Trusts & Estates
- Labor & Employment
Places associates, paralegals & legal staff
National(17 states)Specialist
Philadelphia, PA · +20 more
- Litigation
- Labor & Employment
Places in-house counsel
National(14 states)Specialist
Philadelphia, PA · +18 more
- Litigation
- Intellectual Property
Places partners & groups, in-house counsel
- PR
Multi-state(4 states)
Philadelphia, PA · +3 more
Places paralegals & legal staff
- KL
Multi-state(2 states)
Haddonfield, NJ · Philadelphia, PA
Places partners & groups, in-house counsel, paralegals & legal staff
- LR
- LS
Search types are what each firm says on its own site: retained search, contingency search, contract & temporary.
The Philadelphia legal market in numbers
The Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro area had 25,502 legal-sector jobs in Q4 2025. That is the 9th largest legal market of the 73 metros this directory tracks, and 4.0x the median metro, which had 6,428. It had 2,470 legal employers (establishments), the 14th most of 73 and 2.4x the median metro. That is 96.9 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 $257,088, the 4th highest of 73 metros and 58% above the median metro, which paid $162,708. Compared with Q4 2024, legal-sector jobs rose 1.2% and the average weekly wage rose 8.0%.
This directory tracks 3 metros in Pennsylvania: Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Harrisburg. Together they had 38,392 legal-sector jobs, and 66% of them were in the Philadelphia metro. 15 firms in this directory list an office in the Philadelphia area, the 9th 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 15 legal recruiting firms with an office in the Philadelphia 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
9 of the 15 have only one listed office, in the Philadelphia area, and 2 are national firms (offices in five or more states) with an office here. The other 4 are regional (1) and multi-state (3).
- Single office, 9 firms: Coleman Nourian, Juris Placements, JURISolutions, Inc., Leace Kapres, LLC, NewConfig, MBH Legal Search LLC, Legal Recruitment Administrators of Philadelphia, Legal Search, Liz Shapiro Legal Search
- Regional (two or more offices, all in one state), 1 firm: Alevistar Legal Search
- Multi-state (offices in two to four states), 3 firms: Just Legal, Professional Recruiters Group, Kruza Legal Search
- National (offices in five or more states), 2 firms: Latitude, Major Lindsey & Africa
Their offices in the Philadelphia area are in 10 cities. By the number of firms with an office there: Philadelphia, PA (8), Bryn Mawr, PA (1), Conshohocken, PA (1), Haddonfield, NJ (1), Hockessin, DE (1), Lafayette Hill, PA (1), Newtown, PA (1) and Paoli, PA (1), and 2 others.
By search model
6 of the 15 firms say on their own site what kind of search they run. 1 names retained search and 5 name contract and temporary work only. 1 of the firms with a permanent search model also names contract or temporary work. 9 do not say.
- Retained, 1 firm: Alevistar Legal Search
- Contract and temp, 5 firms: Just Legal, Latitude, Coleman Nourian, JURISolutions, Inc., NewConfig
By level placed
By the levels they say they place: associates (2), partners and groups (4), in-house counsel (4) and paralegals and legal staff (7). A firm can name several. 4 name none.
Practice areas covered
The firms state 5 practice areas between them. The most stated are Litigation (6 of 15, 40%), Intellectual Property (3 of 15, 20%) and Labor & Employment (3 of 15, 20%). 7 name no practice area.
| Practice area | Firms | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Litigation | 6 | 40% |
| Intellectual Property | 3 | 20% |
| Labor & Employment | 3 | 20% |
| Tax, Trusts & Estates | 3 | 20% |
| Regulatory | 1 | 7% |
No listing here has been claimed by its firm yet.
Largest listed firms by footprint
The 5 listed firms in the Philadelphia 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.Latitude21 offices, 17 states
- 2.Major Lindsey & Africa19 offices, 14 states
- 3.Professional Recruiters Group4 offices, 4 states
- 4.Alevistar Legal Search2 offices, 1 state
- 5.Just Legal2 offices, 2 states
Practicing law in Pennsylvania
- Admitting authority
- Pennsylvania Board of Law 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 Pennsylvania is on the Pennsylvania page.
Questions about Philadelphia legal recruiters
- How many legal recruiters have an office in Philadelphia?
- 15 firms in this directory list an office in the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro area, as of their last check.
- How many Philadelphia legal recruiters have only one office?
- Of the 15 listed firms, 2 are national, 3 are multi-state, 1 is regional and 9 have only one listed office, in Philadelphia. 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 Philadelphia legal recruiters run retained searches?
- 1 of the 15 listed firms says on its own site that it runs retained searches. 5 name contract and temporary work only. 9 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 Philadelphia?
- By the number of listed firms that state them: Litigation (6 firms), Intellectual Property (3 firms), Labor & Employment (3 firms) and Tax, Trusts & Estates (3 firms). The other 1 practice area stated here is Regulatory (1).
- Do Philadelphia legal recruiters place in-house counsel?
- 4 of the 15 listed firms say they place in-house counsel. By the other levels they name: associates (2), partners and groups (4) and paralegals and legal staff (7). 4 name no level.
- Which markets near Philadelphia have their own page?
- Pittsburgh, PA (7 firms), New York, NY (55 firms) and Baltimore, MD (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.