Legal Recruiting · Tennessee

The Tennessee lateral market, in the numbers firms publish.

We track every opening Tennessee 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 Tennessee firms are hiring for today

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

218

Open law-firm postings

Attorney roles (associate)

Litigation openings

Nashville's rise shows up in the postings. Tennessee's docket has a healthcare accent: Nashville's hospital and health services headquarters drive both litigation and corporate demand, with Memphis logistics work adding steady defense hiring. Attorney roles make up nearly half of all postings.

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

82 openings

Corporate / transactional

22 openings

Intellectual property

14 openings

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

The part postings can't show you

The best Tennessee 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 Tennessee attorney we work with, confidentially, before anything is sent anywhere.

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