Which companies are hiring legal staff right now

Every legal staff role that opened and every one that closed across 14,717 company career boards, 2026-10-13 to 2026-10-20. A job count tells you who has the most openings today; this tells you which direction that number is moving.

2,548 of the window's 319,114 role changes were classified legal from the job title. The classifier is ours and will not match anyone else's definition exactly.

2,548legal role changes
1,326opened
1,222closed
903companies that moved

Why these are hiring events and not crawler noise. Every opening is checked against the employer's own last-modified timestamp on the posting — the one number here that does not come from our fetch. 82.7% of openings carry a vendor timestamp within two days of the day we called them opened, median lag 1 day.

On its own that would prove nothing, so here is the control: requisitions already live on 2026-10-13, which are new by no definition, sit at 5.6% within two days against the same reference date, median lag 31 days. Openings measured the same way sit at 25.1%. A 4.5× separation.

15.3% of openings carry a vendor date more than a week old and are published as such rather than averaged away.

Adding legal staff

CompanyNetOpenedClosed
td+21309
nc+164125
flir+10100
maersk+10100
georgia+8157
vrtx+880
SpaceX+792
davita+660
gsk+6104
Modern Family Law+594
ag+561
citi+594
clearwayjobs+550
livenation+561
thomsonreuters+572
umiami+550
Morgan & Morgan, P.A.+42521
O'Reilly Automotive+451
fmr+451
gocardless+440
ing+451
mastercard+4106
novartis+4117
thermofisher+473
walmart+473

Cutting legal staff

CompanyNetOpenedClosed
Satispay-12012
Axiom Talent Platform-9413
Bush & Bush Law Group-808
Pennylane SAS-808
barclays-7310
Lyft-606
gilead-628
blackstone-516
dow-516
hippo70-505
remitly-505
Axon-415
accenture-41216
allstate-415
denver-415
freseniusmedicalcare-404
geico-415
globalhr-437
prudential-404
usbank-415
Betsson Group-314
Peregrine Technologies-303
Zscaler-303
abramslaw-303
aep-314

hiring-by-role.csv is every company in every function, with the window stamped on each row. All roles together.

What this does not cover

Want legal staff movement for a list of companies you care about?
Send me the list. I will tell you which of them the index can and cannot follow, free, before you decide anything — kaleb@revivacatch.com