Legal recruiters in Texas

The Texas legal market in numbers

This directory tracks 4 metros in Texas: Houston, Dallas, Austin and San Antonio. Together they had 86,223 legal-sector jobs in Q4 2025. By that total, Texas is the 4th largest of the 40 states with a tracked metro. The same metros had 11,693 legal employers (establishments). Their average annual wage, weighted by jobs (the average weekly wage times 52), was $206,850. Houston is the largest, with 39% of the jobs.

34 firms in this directory list an office in Texas, the 4th most of the 29 states with a page here. 3 metro areas in the state have their 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 34 legal recruiting firms with an office in Texas states on its own website, and name the firms in each group in the same order as the list on this page.

By footprint

13 of the 34 have only one listed office, in Texas, and 9 are national firms (offices in five or more states) with an office here. The other 12 are regional (6) and multi-state (6).

• Single office, 13 firms: Moses Legal, Cassidy Recruiting LLC, MS Legal Search, L.L.C., Clausman Legal Recruiters, National Legal Staffing, LLC, Newhouse Noblin LLC, Risch Results, Warren Recruiting, Inc., Alliance Legal Staffing, Haven Recruiting Group, HR Legal Search, Windsor Consultants, Inc., Miller Jones Legal Staffing
• Regional (two or more offices, all in one state), 6 firms: Momentum Legal Staffing, Pye Legal Group, Amicus Search Group LLC, Aspire Legal Search Group, Momentum Search Partners, All Rise Recruiting
• Multi-state (offices in two to four states), 6 firms: Gibson Arnold & Associates, Inc., Kinney Recruiting, Inc, Engle, Lindsley & Regan Legal Search Consultants, Attorney Resource Tulsa, Shapiro Legal Search - Sanford Rose, Loch Legal Search, LLC
• National (offices in five or more states), 9 firms: Scion Staffing, Latitude, Major Lindsey & Africa, Special Counsel, The PeterSan Group, Snelling Staffing of Baton Rouge, Yorkson Legal, Reaction Search International Inc., Marsden Legal Search

Their offices in Texas are in 16 cities. By the number of firms with an office there: Houston, TX (17), Dallas, TX (16), Austin, TX (13), Bryan, TX (1), Corpus Christi, TX (1), El Paso, TX (1), Garland, TX (1) and Irving, TX (1), and 8 others.

By search model

17 of the 34 firms say on their own site what kind of search they run. 2 name both retained and contingency search, 3 name retained search, 3 name contingency search and 9 name contract and temporary work only. 5 of the firms with a permanent search model also name contract or temporary work. 17 do not say.

• Retained and contingency, 2 firms: Scion Staffing, Pye Legal Group
• Retained, 3 firms: Gibson Arnold & Associates, Inc., Risch Results, Shapiro Legal Search - Sanford Rose
• Contingency, 3 firms: The PeterSan Group, Attorney Resource Tulsa, National Legal Staffing, LLC
• Contract and temp, 9 firms: Kinney Recruiting, Inc, Latitude, Momentum Legal Staffing, Special Counsel, Snelling Staffing of Baton Rouge, Yorkson Legal, Clausman Legal Recruiters, Newhouse Noblin LLC, Alliance Legal Staffing

By level placed

By the levels they say they place: associates (9), partners and groups (9), in-house counsel (16) and paralegals and legal staff (12). A firm can name several. 7 name none.

Practice areas covered

The firms state 8 practice areas between them. The most stated are Litigation (16 of 34, 47%), Labor & Employment (8 of 34, 24%) and Finance & Restructuring (5 of 34, 15%). 14 name no practice area.

9 of the 34 firms state a founding year, from 1959 to 2011. No listing here has been claimed by its firm yet.

Largest listed firms by footprint

The 5 listed firms in Texas 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 Texas

How many legal recruiters have an office in Texas?

34 firms in this directory list an office in Texas, as of their last check.

How many Texas legal recruiters have only one office?

Of the 34 listed firms, 9 are national, 6 are multi-state, 6 are regional and 13 have only one listed office, in Texas. 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 Texas legal recruiters run retained searches?

5 of the 34 listed firms say on their own site that they run retained searches, 2 of them alongside contingency search. 3 name contingency search only. 9 name contract and temporary work only. 17 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 Texas?

By the number of listed firms that state them: Litigation (16 firms), Labor & Employment (8 firms), Finance & Restructuring (5 firms) and Intellectual Property (4 firms). The other 4 practice areas stated here are Corporate & M&A (3), Tax, Trusts & Estates (3), Real Estate (2) and Regulatory (1).

Do Texas legal recruiters place in-house counsel?

16 of the 34 listed firms say they place in-house counsel. By the other levels they name: associates (9), partners and groups (9) and paralegals and legal staff (12). 7 name no level.

Which metro areas in Texas have their own page?

Houston, TX (18 firms), Dallas, TX (18 firms) and Austin, TX (13 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.