Haley Voll
Founder & Partner
Legal Recruiting · Utah
The Utah lateral market, in the numbers firms publish.
We track every opening Utah 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 Utah firms are hiring for today
Openings posted publicly by law firms with Utah offices (July 2026). Postings only show you the visible market; many searches, especially at partner level, never get posted at all.
170
Open law-firm postings
82
Attorney roles (associate)
48
Litigation openings
IP runs ahead of corporate along the Silicon Slopes. Utah is one of the few states where intellectual property openings beat corporate, a direct read on the tech economy between Salt Lake City and Provo. Relative to its bar size, Utah posts one of the busiest dockets in the West.
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
48 openings
Corporate / transactional
22 openings
Intellectual property
31 openings
Source: Voll Recruiting analysis of publicly posted law-firm openings, July 2026.
Published pay
What Utah 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trademark associate | Stoel Rives · Salt Lake City (multi-office) | 3 to 6 years | $193,000 – $295,000 |
Source: Salary ranges published in public law-firm job listings, July 2026.
The part postings can't show you
The best Utah 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 Utah attorney we work with, confidentially, before anything is sent anywhere.
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