Haley Voll
Founder & Partner
Legal Recruiting · Georgia
The Georgia lateral market, in the numbers firms publish.
We track every opening Georgia 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.
Open demand
What Georgia firms are hiring for today
Openings posted publicly by law firms with Georgia offices (July 2026). Postings only show you the visible market; many searches, especially at partner level, never get posted at all.
440
Open law-firm postings
192
Attorney roles (associate)
185
Litigation openings
Atlanta carries the market, and litigation carries Atlanta. Georgia's posted demand concentrates heavily in Atlanta, and litigation accounts for more openings than corporate and intellectual property combined. Corporate and IP hiring run neck and neck behind it, both anchored by Atlanta's Fortune 500 headquarters base.
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
185 openings
Corporate / transactional
51 openings
Intellectual property
51 openings
Source: Voll Recruiting analysis of publicly posted law-firm openings, July 2026.
The part postings can't show you
The best Georgia 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 Georgia attorney we work with, confidentially, before anything is sent anywhere.
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