Legal recruiters in Dallas

The Dallas legal market in numbers

The Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro area had 32,751 legal-sector jobs in Q4 2025. That is the 6th largest legal market of the 73 metros this directory tracks, and 5.1x the median metro, which had 6,428. It had 4,462 legal employers (establishments), the 6th most of 73 and 4.4x the median metro. That is 136.2 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 $217,932, the 9th highest of 73 metros and 34% above the median metro, which paid $162,708. Compared with Q4 2024, legal-sector jobs rose 2.5% and the average weekly wage rose 6.1%.

This directory tracks 4 metros in Texas: Houston, Dallas, Austin and San Antonio. Together they had 86,223 legal-sector jobs, and 38% of them were in the Dallas metro. 18 firms in this directory list an office in the Dallas area, the 6th 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 18 legal recruiting firms with an office in the Dallas 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

7 of the 18 have only one listed office, in the Dallas area, and 5 are national firms (offices in five or more states) with an office here. The other 6 are regional (5) and multi-state (1).

• Single office, 7 firms: Cassidy Recruiting LLC, National Legal Staffing, LLC, Newhouse Noblin LLC, Risch Results, Alliance Legal Staffing, Haven Recruiting Group, Miller Jones Legal Staffing
• Regional (two or more offices, all in one state), 5 firms: Momentum Legal Staffing, Pye Legal Group, Amicus Search Group LLC, Aspire Legal Search Group, Momentum Search Partners
• Multi-state (offices in two to four states), 1 firm: Shapiro Legal Search - Sanford Rose
• National (offices in five or more states), 5 firms: Scion Staffing, Major Lindsey & Africa, Special Counsel, Snelling Staffing of Baton Rouge, Yorkson Legal

Their offices in the Dallas area are in 4 cities. By the number of firms with an office there: Dallas, TX (16), Garland, TX (1), Irving, TX (1) and Plano, TX (1).

By search model

11 of the 18 firms say on their own site what kind of search they run. 2 name both retained and contingency search, 2 name retained search, 1 names contingency search and 6 name contract and temporary work only. 2 of the firms with a permanent search model also name contract or temporary work. 7 do not say.

• Retained and contingency, 2 firms: Scion Staffing, Pye Legal Group
• Retained, 2 firms: Risch Results, Shapiro Legal Search - Sanford Rose
• Contingency, 1 firm: National Legal Staffing, LLC
• Contract and temp, 6 firms: Momentum Legal Staffing, Special Counsel, Snelling Staffing of Baton Rouge, Yorkson Legal, Newhouse Noblin LLC, Alliance Legal Staffing

By level placed

By the levels they say they place: associates (4), partners and groups (5), in-house counsel (6) and paralegals and legal staff (10). A firm can name several. 2 name none.

Practice areas covered

The firms state 6 practice areas between them. The most stated are Litigation (9 of 18, 50%), Labor & Employment (4 of 18, 22%) and Intellectual Property (2 of 18, 11%). 8 name no practice area.

8 of the 18 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 Dallas 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. 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.Major Lindsey & Africa19 offices, 14 states
5. 5.Special Counsel9 offices, 9 states

Questions about Dallas legal recruiters

How many legal recruiters have an office in Dallas?

18 firms in this directory list an office in the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro area, as of their last check.

How many Dallas legal recruiters have only one office?

Of the 18 listed firms, 5 are national, 1 is multi-state, 5 are regional and 7 have only one listed office, in Dallas. 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 Dallas legal recruiters run retained searches?

4 of the 18 listed firms say on their own site that they run retained searches, 2 of them alongside contingency search. 1 names contingency search only. 6 name contract and temporary work only. 7 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 Dallas?

By the number of listed firms that state them: Litigation (9 firms), Labor & Employment (4 firms), Intellectual Property (2 firms) and Corporate & M&A (1 firm). The other 2 practice areas stated here are Finance & Restructuring (1) and Tax, Trusts & Estates (1).

Do Dallas legal recruiters place in-house counsel?

6 of the 18 listed firms say they place in-house counsel. By the other levels they name: associates (4), partners and groups (5) and paralegals and legal staff (10). 2 name no level.

Which markets near Dallas have their own page?

Austin, TX (13 firms), Houston, 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.