Chicago Legal Search / CLS Legal Staffing
Chicago Legal Search recruits attorneys for law firms and companies. Its CLS Legal Staffing division places paralegals, legal support professionals and administrators.
- Fee model
- Not stated
- Founded · Team
- 1988
- Office
- Chicago
- License
- None on file
- Google reviews
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- Open roles, last 90 days
- 20
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Score breakdown
Why 74.8: three inputs, all public.
Built from public signals. It measures specialisation and activity, not a guarantee of service quality.
Specialties & roles advertised
A Legal shop, almost entirely.
Roles advertised most
- Estate Planning & Special Needs Paralegal Job #7531 1
- Finance Associate Job #7350 1
- Higher Education Senior Counsel Job #7636 1
- NEW! Billing Specialist Job #8103 1
- NEW! Corporate & Real Estate Paralegal Job #8244 1
- NEW! Finance Associate Job #7928 1
- NEW! Finance Paralegal Job #8264 1
- Administrative Assistant (Remote) Job #7670 1
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Firm website · Oct 2026
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Send this firm a brief →Data sources & last updated
- Job ads · Firm website
- Oct 10, 2026
- Firm website
- Oct 10, 2026
- Chicago office, main phone and generic email
- Oct 10, 2026
- President and executive vice president
- Oct 10, 2026
- CLS Legal Staffing director
- Oct 10, 2026
- Own client job advertisements
- Oct 10, 2026
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