Austin, TX
Legal recruiters in Austin
The Austin legal market
- Legal-sector jobs
- 11,584
- 20th largest legal market of 73 tracked
- 1.8x the median metro
- Legal employers
- 1,697
- 20th most legal employers of 73 metros tracked
- 1.7x the median metro
- Average annual wage (weekly x 52)
- $201,812
- 17th highest of 73 metros tracked
- 24% 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 Austin area
National(18 states)
Austin, TX · +25 more
- Litigation
- Corporate & M&A
- Tax, Trusts & Estates
Places paralegals & legal staff
Multi-state(2 states)
Austin, TX · +1 more
- Litigation
- Corporate & M&A
- Tax, Trusts & Estates
- Finance & Restructuring
Places associates, in-house counsel
National(17 states)Specialist
Austin, TX · +20 more
- Litigation
- Labor & Employment
Places in-house counsel
RegionalSpecialist
Austin, TX · +2 more
- Litigation
Places in-house counsel, paralegals & legal staff
RegionalSpecialist
Austin, TX · +1 more
- Litigation
- Labor & Employment
Places associates
- MS
RegionalSpecialist
Austin, TX · +2 more
- Labor & Employment
Places in-house counsel, paralegals & legal staff
Single officeGeneralist
Austin, TX
- Litigation
- Intellectual Property
- Tax, Trusts & Estates
- Labor & Employment
- +1 more
Places associates, in-house counsel
National(15 states)
Austin, TX · +24 more
Places paralegals & legal staff
Search types are what each firm says on its own site: retained search, contingency search, contract & temporary.
The Austin legal market in numbers
The Austin-Round Rock-Georgetown, TX metro area had 11,584 legal-sector jobs in Q4 2025. That is the 20th largest legal market of the 73 metros this directory tracks, and 1.8x the median metro, which had 6,428. It had 1,697 legal employers (establishments), the 20th most of 73 and 1.7x the median metro. That is 146.5 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 $201,812, the 17th highest of 73 metros and 24% above the median metro, which paid $162,708. Compared with Q4 2024, legal-sector jobs rose 5.8% and the average weekly wage rose 10.6%.
This directory tracks 4 metros in Texas: Houston, Dallas, Austin and San Antonio. Together they had 86,223 legal-sector jobs, and 13% of them were in the Austin metro. 13 firms in this directory list an office in the Austin area, the 12th 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 13 legal recruiting firms with an office in the Austin 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
2 of the 13 have only one listed office, in the Austin area, and 4 are national firms (offices in five or more states) with an office here. The other 7 are regional (4) and multi-state (3).
- Single office, 2 firms: Moses Legal, HR Legal Search
- Regional (two or more offices, all in one state), 4 firms: Momentum Legal Staffing, Pye Legal Group, Amicus Search Group LLC, Momentum Search Partners
- Multi-state (offices in two to four states), 3 firms: Kinney Recruiting, Inc, Attorney Resource Tulsa, Shapiro Legal Search - Sanford Rose
- National (offices in five or more states), 4 firms: Scion Staffing, Latitude, Snelling Staffing of Baton Rouge, Reaction Search International Inc.
Every listed office in the Austin area is in Austin, TX.
By search model
8 of the 13 firms say on their own site what kind of search they run. 2 name both retained and contingency search, 1 names retained search, 1 names contingency search and 4 name contract and temporary work only. 3 of the firms with a permanent search model also name contract or temporary work. 5 do not say.
- Retained and contingency, 2 firms: Scion Staffing, Pye Legal Group
- Retained, 1 firm: Shapiro Legal Search - Sanford Rose
- Contingency, 1 firm: Attorney Resource Tulsa
- Contract and temp, 4 firms: Kinney Recruiting, Inc, Latitude, Momentum Legal Staffing, Snelling Staffing of Baton Rouge
By level placed
By the levels they say they place: associates (3), partners and groups (1), in-house counsel (8) and paralegals and legal staff (5). A firm can name several. 2 name none.
Practice areas covered
The firms state 7 practice areas between them. The most stated are Litigation (6 of 13, 46%), Labor & Employment (4 of 13, 31%) and Tax, Trusts & Estates (3 of 13, 23%). 6 name no practice area.
| Practice area | Firms | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Litigation | 6 | 46% |
| Labor & Employment | 4 | 31% |
| Tax, Trusts & Estates | 3 | 23% |
| Corporate & M&A | 2 | 15% |
| Finance & Restructuring | 1 | 8% |
| Intellectual Property | 1 | 8% |
| Regulatory | 1 | 8% |
5 of the 13 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 the Austin 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.Snelling Staffing of Baton Rouge25 offices, 15 states
- 3.Latitude21 offices, 17 states
- 4.Reaction Search International Inc.10 offices, 9 states
- 5.Shapiro Legal Search - Sanford Rose5 offices, 3 states
Practicing law in Texas
- Admitting authority
- Texas 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 Texas is on the Texas page.
Questions about Austin legal recruiters
- How many legal recruiters have an office in Austin?
- 13 firms in this directory list an office in the Austin-Round Rock-Georgetown, TX metro area, as of their last check.
- How many Austin legal recruiters have only one office?
- Of the 13 listed firms, 4 are national, 3 are multi-state, 4 are regional and 2 have only one listed office, in Austin. 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 Austin legal recruiters run retained searches?
- 3 of the 13 listed firms say on their own site that they run retained searches, 2 of them alongside contingency search. 1 names contingency search only. 4 name contract and temporary work only. 5 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 Austin?
- By the number of listed firms that state them: Litigation (6 firms), Labor & Employment (4 firms), Tax, Trusts & Estates (3 firms) and Corporate & M&A (2 firms). The other 3 practice areas stated here are Finance & Restructuring (1), Intellectual Property (1) and Regulatory (1).
- Do Austin legal recruiters place in-house counsel?
- 8 of the 13 listed firms say they place in-house counsel. By the other levels they name: associates (3), partners and groups (1) and paralegals and legal staff (5). 2 name no level.
- Which markets near Austin have their own page?
- Houston, TX (18 firms), Dallas, TX (18 firms) and New Orleans, LA (5 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.