Home market
Northside Recruiting is headquartered in Chicago. We place attorneys with the city's law firms and legal departments, and we run searches nationwide from here. This market is not one we researched. It is where we live.
The market, from inside it
Chicago runs on both the national firms with major offices here and a deep bench of strong regional and midsize firms. The same associate can have two very different careers depending on which side they choose, and we help candidates weigh that honestly.
The top of the Chicago market prices off the national scale, while midsize and regional firms trade some compensation for better hours and faster responsibility. Knowing which firms sit where is exactly the kind of context a database cannot give you.
Chicago is a headquarters town, with corporate legal departments across food, manufacturing, healthcare, finance, and logistics. That means real in-house paths for firm lawyers who want them, and steady counsel searches for us to run.
Open in Chicago
Insurance Coverage
A national law firm is seeking an Insurance Coverage Associate for its Chicago office. You'll work across coverage opinion letters, pleadings, motions, and…
$100,000 – $140,000
Real Estate
A top-tier firm is hiring a mid-level Real Estate Associate for its Chicago office to support a high-volume commercial real estate practice. The work spans…
$235,000 – $365,000
Based here on purpose
We are named for the side of the city we live on. That means coffee instead of a discovery call if you are local, and a network built in person, not scraped from a directory.
No. Chicago is home base, but our searches currently run from New York to Denver to California. If you are a Chicago lawyer open to another market, or a firm elsewhere that wants Midwest talent, that range is exactly the point.