Legal Recruiting · Florida

The Florida lateral market, in the numbers firms publish.

We track every opening Florida law firms post publicly, and the salary ranges they publish with them. Here is what the market looks like right now, and what it means if you are weighing a move.

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Open demand

What Florida firms are hiring for today

Openings posted publicly by law firms with Florida offices (July 2026). Postings only show you the visible market; many searches, especially at partner level, never get posted at all.

1,155

Open law-firm postings

506

Attorney roles (associate)

615

Litigation openings

More than half of every posted opening is litigation. Florida is the most litigation-concentrated big legal market in the country: litigation accounts for over half of all posted law-firm openings, spanning insurance coverage, commercial disputes, and construction. Corporate demand is real but a fraction of litigation, and intellectual property hiring is thin.

Source: Voll Recruiting analysis of publicly posted law-firm openings, July 2026.

Practice areas

Where the demand concentrates

Posted openings by practice area. If your practice sits in a deep column, you have options; if it sits in a thin one, timing and positioning matter more, and that is exactly the situation a recruiter earns their keep in.

Litigation

615 openings

Corporate / transactional

103 openings

Intellectual property

30 openings

Source: Voll Recruiting analysis of publicly posted law-firm openings, July 2026.

Published pay

What Florida postings are offering

Salary ranges taken directly from current public postings. Ranges like these are the floor of a negotiation, not the ceiling; knowing where a specific firm actually lands is the part we do for a living.

Role	Firm · location	Experience	Posted range
M&A associate	Foley & Lardner · Miami / Orlando / Tampa / Jacksonville (multi-office)	4 to 8 years	$290,000 – $420,000
Intellectual property associate (technology)	Morgan Lewis · Miami (multi-office)	3 to 4 years	$150,000 – $230,000

Source: Salary ranges published in public law-firm job listings, July 2026.

The part postings can't show you

The best Florida moves are rarely the posted ones.

A posting tells you a seat exists. It does not tell you which groups are quietly building, which firms flex on class year, or where your book and background put you at the front of the line. That is the read we give every Florida attorney we work with, confidentially, before anything is sent anywhere.

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