Find the right attorney or legal staffer before your competitors do.
Lateral Desk maps California's legal talent market: every licensed attorney, the firms they work at, and what the market pays. Then you can run the whole hire, from first touch to signed offer, in one pipeline.
Search the whole market
Filter attorneys by practice area, years since admission, county or metro, firm size, law school, certified specialty, license status, discipline history and appellate/federal court activity. Save the search, and you'll get an alert when new matches appear.
Know every firm
Attorney headcount by firm and office, practice mix, seniority pyramid and recent hiring. Target "6–9 year employment litigators at 11–50 attorney firms in Orange County" in two clicks.
Run the hire
A pipeline for every open role: Sourced, Contacted, Responded, Screen, Interview, Offer, Hired. Drag-and-drop board, notes, tasks and reminders, owners, ratings, tags and conflict-check notes.
Paralegals & staff too
Workers' comp hearing-representative offices statewide, plus a private talent pool for paralegals, legal assistants, secretaries, litigation support and office managers. Import your own candidates and benchmark pay by metro.
Comp benchmarks
Pay bands by role and California metro from government wage surveys, plus the large-firm associate scale by class year. Make offers that land.
Analytics that matter
Funnel conversion by stage, time in stage, source of hire, loss reasons and team activity. See where every search stalls.
Built on public records, refreshed continuously
Attorney records come from California's public licensing records: status, admission date, employer address, self-reported practice areas, certified specialties and public discipline history. Firm profiles are built from those records. Pay data comes from government wage surveys.
Non-attorney staff aren't licensed in California, so no public registry of paralegals exists. For those roles, Lateral Desk gives you a private pipeline and talent pool, plus market pay data, and doesn't pretend to have a list it can't have.
Your data stays yours
- Each firm gets its own private workspace
- Roles for owners, recruiters and viewers
- Exports are controlled per firm
- We never contact candidates on your behalf. Outreach templates are drafts you send yourself