LawFirmHires vs iHireLegal

LawFirmHires is a job board built only for legal jobs.

It runs 47 role pages covering attorneys by level and practice area — associate, partner, of counsel and practice-area roles, plus in-house, government, prosecutor and public defender openings — and the staff roles around them: paralegals, legal assistants, legal secretaries, intake, receptionists, docketing, billing, eDiscovery and firm administration.

Listings arrive from firms posting directly and from employers' own careers pages and public job feeds.

A Standard post costs $199 at launch pricing and runs 30 days, indexed in Google Jobs and shown on the matching role and city pages.

Featured at $399 adds the company logo, a highlighted card, top-of-feed placement and a Featured badge.

A post is published the moment payment goes through, and candidates apply on the firm's own form or inbox.

iHireLegal is the legal community of the iHire recruiting network, which says it runs 57 industry talent communities (self-reported).

Its employer product is monthly or quarterly job slots, and every job ad includes branded email alerts, automatic 15-day refreshes that push the ad back to the top of search results, an AI-powered ad builder, applicant prescreening questions, interview scheduling tools, a free career site and company profile, candidate messaging and ATS integration.

LawFirmHires' prices are flat and one-time per post at launch pricing, published on the pricing page: $199 Standard (regular $299) or $399 Featured (regular $499), each live for 30 days.

Each role needs its own post.

Firms with several openings can take a slot plan instead — Growth at $899 a month for up to 10 posts live at once with the logo on every post, or Brand at $1,749 a month for up to 25 posts with Featured placement on every post — arranged by contacting LawFirmHires rather than through checkout.

iHireLegal sells job slots on subscription: $369 a month for 1 slot, $450 for 3 or $799 for 10 on monthly terms, or $316, $405 and $733 a month on the matching quarterly terms, with a custom quote offered for additional slots and longer terms.

Résumé search is separate: $450 a month on its own, or $749 a month bundled with one job slot.

Two honest comparisons: at the 10-slot tier, iHireLegal's $799 a month is less than Growth's $899 a month.

But for a single opening that fills within a month, a $199 one-time post costs less than one month of a $369 slot — and the one-time post never bills again.

A single LawFirmHires post is a one-time payment that never renews, with nothing to sign.

Slot plans bill monthly, carry no minimum term and can be canceled whenever you choose; posts stay up through the month already paid for, and a filled role's post is removed on request.

Duplicate or mistaken charges are refunded in full every time.

iHireLegal's pricing page tells employers "Upgrade, downgrade, or cancel at any time – no long-term commitment required!" and says openings can be swapped in and out of a slot whenever needed.

Monthly and quarterly terms are both offered, with the quarterly rates lower per month.

On paper, both are cancel-anytime.

The practical difference is what keeps billing: a subscription runs until you cancel it, while a one-time post ends on its own.

A LawFirmHires post appears on the matching role and city pages and is indexed in Google Jobs.

The audience is legal-only by construction — the board is for people who work in legal and the employers hiring them.

iHireLegal says it promotes jobs across the iHire network and partner sites "like Google, Indeed, JobGet, and more," and every ad includes branded email alerts.

The same page advertises paid upgrades for nationwide reach, extra traffic and job targeting by city or state.

That is a genuine difference in distribution, and it cuts both ways. iHireLegal advertises your opening across a multi-industry network and outside partners; LawFirmHires' distribution is its own legal-only role and city pages plus Google Jobs.

If broad multi-site distribution matters to your firm, that is a point for iHireLegal.

If you want your opening read in a legal-only context, that is the case for LawFirmHires.

This is the biggest functional difference between the two. iHireLegal sells a separate résumé search product — "Legal Resumes at Your Fingertips" — with unlimited résumé searches and views, filtering by job title, skills, location and education level, AI-generated candidate summaries and candidate contact details.

Its page claims 66,164 searchable legal résumés and 2.8 million across the iHire network (both self-reported), priced at $450 a month, or $749 bundled with a job slot.

LawFirmHires has no résumé database and no candidate profiles.

Candidates apply on the firm's own form or inbox, and their résumé goes straight to the firm, never through LawFirmHires.

The board's model is posting, not sourcing.

If proactively contacting passive candidates is part of how your firm hires, iHireLegal has a product for that and LawFirmHires does not — a real reason to pick iHireLegal, or to run both.

LawFirmHires publishes no results numbers — no candidate or reach counts and no testimonials.

The fact sheet sets out everything the site does publish: prices, terms, how posting works and who runs it.

On published proof of scale, that gap favours iHireLegal.

iHireLegal's own pages state its scale: 57 industry talent communities, more than 25 years in online recruiting, "Trusted by 114,000+ Organizations" and 66,164 searchable legal résumés.

These are self-reported figures — the company's own claims about itself, not independently verified — but they are published on its site and were checked there for this page.

LawFirmHires states plainly that it does not screen, interview or vouch for candidates or employers and does not guarantee that a listing will result in a hire; it is a job board, not a staffing agency or recruiter.