The eight sites at a glance
| Attribute | LawFirmHires | Indeed | NALS Career Center | ALA Job Board | Lawjobs.com | iHireLegal | NALP Job Center | Robert Half (legal staffing) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| What it is | Job board built only for legal jobs: attorneys and legal staff, mostly at law firms | General job site covering every industry, including legal | Career center of the legal support professionals' association | Job board of the legal administrators' association, aimed at law firms | Legal job board whose packages advertise across the ALM network | Legal-only job board that rents job slots by the month or quarter | Job center for legal career-services and recruitment professionals | Legal staffing agency — a staffing firm, not a job board |
| Legal staff roles covered | Legal assistants, secretaries, receptionists, intake, docketing, billing, paralegals, eDiscovery and firm administration, across 47 role pages | Every industry, including legal; it publishes hiring guides for paralegals, legal assistants and legal secretaries | Legal support roles — featured jobs have included litigation paralegal and docket clerk openings | Legal assistants, paralegals, legal administrators, office managers and HR and finance specialists | Categories include legal secretary, administrative assistant, paralegal and attorney | Legal-only board; the pricing page checked lists no role breakdown | Career services, attorney recruitment, attorney professional development, HR and legal roles | Attorneys, paralegals and legal support professionals, contract or full-time |
| Pricing model | One-time price per post; monthly slot plans for firms with several openings | Many jobs post free (subject to terms); paid sponsorship runs on a Sponsored Job budget | Per-post packages by duration, with member and non-member rates | Per-post tiers and multi-job packages, with member and non-member rates | Per-job packages | Monthly or quarterly job-slot plans | Not published | Not published |
| Published price | $199 Standard or $399 Featured per 30-day post (launch pricing) | Many jobs post free; a $75 credit to sponsor a first job (new US accounts) | 30-day Basic $300 member / $350 non-member, up to $700 for 90 days | Standard $330 member / $530 non-member for 30 days, up to $890; a 3-job package at $790 | $695 to $1,299 per job | From $369 a month (1 slot) to $799 (10 slots); quarterly from $316 a month | Not published | Not published |
| Commitment | None: single posts are one-time payments; slot plans are monthly and cancel anytime | Not published | 30-, 60- or 90-day posting terms | 30- or 60-day posts, or multi-job packages | 30- or 60-day listing packages | Monthly or quarterly; upgrade, downgrade, or cancel at any time | Not published | Not published |
| How candidates apply | On the firm's own form or inbox; no candidate profiles or résumé database | On Indeed | Not published | Not published | Not published | Not published | Not published | Not published |
As of October 2026, checked on each company's own website.
Where should you post a legal assistant job?
The sites that fit a legal assistant, legal secretary or intake search fall into four groups: legal-only job boards (LawFirmHires, iHireLegal), association career centers (NALS for legal support professionals, ALA for legal management), a legal media board (Lawjobs.com) and the general boards (Indeed).
Price is the clearest divider.
A 30-day post on LawFirmHires is $199 at launch pricing — one payment, nothing to sign.
NALS' 30-day Basic post is $300 for members and $350 for non-members; ALA's Standard 30-day post is $330 for members and $530 for non-members.
Lawjobs.com starts at $695 per job, and iHireLegal rents slots from $369 a month.
Indeed will often take the post for free, subject to its terms, conditions, quality standards and usage limits.
Audience is the other divider.
Five of the eight are legal-specific — the two legal-only boards, the two association career centers and Lawjobs.com — while Indeed covers every industry.
The sections below take each site in turn, and the table above lines all eight up side by side.
What does each site charge to post a legal assistant or legal secretary job?
LawFirmHires charges $199 for a 30-day Standard post or $399 for Featured (launch pricing; the regular prices are $299 and $499).
A single post is a one-time payment that never renews, and firms with several openings can move to a monthly slot plan — $899 a month for up to 10 live posts or $1,749 for 25 — instead of paying per post.
See the pricing page.
Indeed lets many jobs post free, subject to its terms, conditions, quality standards and usage limits, but some jobs are sponsored only and Indeed reserves the right to require sponsorship for any reason.
New US accounts that post a job get a $75 credit to sponsor their first job, which expires one year after account creation.
NALS Career Center prices by duration and membership: $300 member / $350 non-member for a 30-day Basic post, $400 / $475 for an Enhanced 30-day post, $450 / $525 for 60 days and $650 / $700 for 90 days.
ALA Job Board members pay $330 for a Standard 30-day post, $540 for an Enhanced 30-day post and $690 for a Premium 60-day post; non-members pay $530, $740 and $890.
A 3-job Standard package is $790.
Lawjobs.com sells per-job packages: $695 for a 30-day High Visibility listing, $795 for a 30-day Extended Reach listing that adds a 2-week regional ALM eNewsletter ad, and $1,299 for the 60-day Ultimate Reach package with ALM newsletter and print advertising and partner-network distribution.
iHireLegal rents slots: $369 a month for 1, $450 for 3 and $799 for 10, with lower per-month rates on quarterly terms ($316, $405 and $733).
NALP Job Center and Robert Half publish no prices on the pages checked for this comparison — both are listed as Not published in the table.
Which boards are actually built for legal assistants and legal secretaries?
Two of the eight are association career centers whose audiences are legal support and law firm management.
The NALS Career Center belongs to NALS, the National Association for Legal Support Professionals, and its featured jobs have included litigation paralegal and docket clerk openings.
The ALA Job Board calls itself the recruiting platform built for law firms and lists legal assistants, paralegals, legal administrators, office managers and HR and finance specialists among the professionals firms can recruit — its reach figures (12,000+ monthly unique visitors, ~350 unique views per job, 9,000+ members reached by email) are self-reported.
Lawjobs.com has legal secretary and administrative assistant among its categories, but its audience description is broader legal — attorneys, paralegals, business development executives and legal professionals — and its packages are built around ALM network advertising. iHireLegal is a legal-only board, though its pricing page lists no role breakdown.
LawFirmHires is built for the whole firm payroll, not the attorney side only: legal assistants, secretaries, receptionists, intake, docketing, billing, eDiscovery and firm administration sit alongside attorney roles across 47 role pages, so a secretary post and an associate post reach the audiences that actually search those pages.
Is the NALP Job Center a good place to post a legal assistant job?
Search results sometimes recommend the NALP Job Center for legal-assistant hiring.
Its own page points elsewhere: NALP describes the Job Center as a resource for talented legal career professionals who advise law students, lawyers, law offices, and law schools, with categories in human resources, legal, career development, attorney professional development and attorney recruitment.
That audience is recruitment and career-services staff — the people who run lawyer hiring — not secretaries, receptionists or intake staff.
It is the right board if your opening is a legal recruitment manager or a professional-development role.
For a legal assistant or legal secretary post, the boards above fit the query better.
When does a staffing agency make sense instead of a job board?
Robert Half is the staffing-agency option on this list, and it behaves differently from a job board: you engage the agency for talent rather than post a listing and screen the applicants who come in.
Its legal page offers contract and full-time attorney, paralegal and legal-support talent for law firms and corporations, often in as little as 48 hours (a self-reported figure), and it notes that Robert Half is not a law firm and does not provide legal representation.
That model suits covering a leave or a seasonal intake spike rather than adding a permanent seat.
It publishes no staffing prices on the page checked here, so the table lists it as Not published.
How did we compare these sites?
Every fact about a competitor was checked on that company's own website on October 5, 2026, and the ranked order reflects fit for one job: posting a legal assistant, legal secretary, receptionist or intake role at a law firm.
Where a price depends on association membership, both figures are given; where a company publishes no price on the page checked, the table says Not published.
Reach figures on the ALA Job Board are the company's own and are marked self-reported.
LawFirmHires wrote this page and is one of the options compared.
Facts about it come from its own fact sheet, and its prices are launch pricing.
Nothing here is a promise of applicants or a hire.
A job board sells exposure to its audience; LawFirmHires, for one, does not screen, interview or vouch for candidates and does not guarantee that a listing will result in a hire.
If you want the flat per-post route, post a job and the listing goes live the moment payment clears.
Which one should you choose?
Choose LawFirmHires if…
- You want one flat, one-time price per post — $199 for a 30-day Standard post at launch pricing — with no renewal and nothing to sign.
- You are hiring the staff side of the firm: legal assistants, secretaries, receptionists, intake, docketing and billing, listed alongside attorney roles.
- You want applications to come to your own form or inbox, not through a middleman.
- You hire several roles through the year and would rather swap posts on a monthly slot plan than pay per post.
Choose Indeed if…
- You want to test a posting at no cost first — many jobs post free, subject to Indeed's terms, conditions, quality standards and usage limits.
- You are a new US account and want the $75 credit toward sponsoring your first job.
- You are also hiring non-legal roles and want one board for everything.
- You are prepared to screen a broad, general audience down to the legal candidates.
Choose the NALS Career Center if…
- You are hiring legal support roles specifically — its featured jobs have included litigation paralegal and docket clerk openings.
- You qualify for NALS member rates, so the 30-day Basic post costs $300 instead of $350.
- You want the posting in front of the association's audience of legal support professionals.
Choose the ALA Job Board if…
- You are a law firm administrator hiring across the back office — legal assistants, paralegals, office managers, HR and finance specialists.
- Your firm belongs to the ALA and you will post at member rates ($330 for a Standard 30-day post, $790 for a 3-job package).
- You want the listing on a board that describes itself as built for law firms.
Choose iHireLegal if…
- You hire on a rolling basis and want slots you can swap jobs in and out of as requisitions open and close.
- You prefer a predictable monthly or quarterly cost over per-post payments.
- You want the option to upgrade, downgrade or cancel at any time.
Choose Robert Half if…
- You need a legal assistant or other legal-support staff on a temporary basis quickly — its legal page offers talent often in as little as 48 hours (self-reported).
- You are covering a leave or a seasonal spike rather than adding a permanent seat.
- You would rather engage a staffing firm for talent than post a listing and screen applicants yourself.
Frequently asked questions
Where is the best place to post a legal assistant job?
The short list is a legal-only board (LawFirmHires charges $199 for a 30-day post at launch pricing), an association career center (NALS or ALA, whose audiences are legal support and law firm administration staff), or Indeed, where many jobs post free but you screen a general audience.
Choose by audience and price: legal boards reach legal staff; general boards reach everyone.
How much does it cost to post a legal secretary job?
Published prices run from free to four figures.
LawFirmHires is $199 Standard or $399 Featured for a 30-day post at launch pricing.
NALS' 30-day Basic post is $300 member / $350 non-member; ALA's Standard 30-day post is $330 / $530.
Lawjobs.com starts at $695 per job, iHireLegal rents slots from $369 a month, and Indeed takes many posts free with conditions.
Can you post a legal assistant job on Indeed for free?
Often, yes.
Indeed says many jobs can be posted for free, subject to its terms, conditions, quality standards and usage limits — but some jobs are sponsored only (for example, jobs fed in from a career site or an applicant tracking system), and Indeed reserves the right to require sponsorship for any reason.
New US accounts also get a $75 credit to sponsor a first job, expiring one year after account creation.
Is the NALP Job Center for posting legal assistant jobs?
No. NALP's own page describes the Job Center as a resource for legal career professionals who advise law students, lawyers, law offices and law schools, with categories in attorney recruitment, attorney professional development, career development, HR and legal.
That is an audience of recruitment and career-services staff.
It suits hiring a recruitment or professional-development professional, not a legal assistant or secretary.
Do you have to be a member of NALS or ALA to post a job?
No — both career centers publish non-member rates alongside member rates.
A 30-day Basic post on the NALS Career Center is $350 for non-members versus $300 for members, and the ALA Job Board's Standard 30-day post is $530 for non-members versus $330 for members.
Membership saves money on both, but neither requires it to post.
Can a staffing agency cover a temporary legal receptionist or intake seat?
A staffing agency is one option alongside a job board.
Robert Half's legal page offers contract and full-time attorney, paralegal and legal-support talent for law firms and corporations, often in as little as 48 hours (self-reported).
It is a staffing firm rather than a job board, and it publishes no staffing prices on the page checked for this comparison.
How long does a legal assistant job posting stay live?
It depends on the site.
A LawFirmHires post runs 30 days from purchase, and the firm can ask for it to be pulled sooner if the role fills.
NALS sells 30-, 60- and 90-day terms; ALA and Lawjobs.com sell 30- and 60-day listings. iHireLegal works differently — a monthly or quarterly slot stays yours, and you swap a new job into it when one fills.
Where these facts come from
- Indeed: indeed.com/hire/pricing (checked October 5, 2026)
- Indeed: indeed.com/hire/how-to-hire/paralegal (checked October 5, 2026)
- NALS Career Center: nals.org (checked October 5, 2026)
- NALS Career Center: careers.nals.org/employer/pricing (checked October 5, 2026)
- ALA Job Board: jobs.alanet.org/add-listing (checked October 5, 2026)
- ALA Job Board: jobs.alanet.org/law-firm-recruitment (checked October 5, 2026)
- Lawjobs.com: lawjobs.com/employers (checked October 5, 2026)
- iHireLegal: ihirelegal.com/employers/solutions/jobads (checked October 5, 2026)
- NALP Job Center: jobs.nalp.org/employer-offers (checked October 5, 2026)
- Robert Half (legal staffing): roberthalf.com/us/en/legal (checked October 5, 2026)