Practice Areas · Employment & Labor · Wage & Hour
Wage & Hour Recruiters
We map 5,000+ wage and hour lawyers so hiring partners and GCs can reach the specialists who know this litigation from the inside.
Inside the Wage & Hour market.
Our proprietary Titan AI maps the relevant field first; experienced consultants qualify it by hand. The figures describe the talent market we cover.
- 5,000+
- lawyers with wage & hour experience
Wage and hour is one of the most technically exacting corners of Employment & Labor law — a specialism where class certification strategy, FLSA collective actions, state wage payment disputes, and evolving exemption standards converge in ways that demand practitioners who live inside the subject, not merely adjacent to it.
We maintain a mapped population of 5,000+ lawyers with demonstrable wage and hour experience, from partners who have tried collective actions to senior associates whose practices are built almost entirely on misclassification and tip-credit litigation. That depth lets us identify candidates by the precise sub-issues that matter to a given client base — not just by practice group label.
Employers defending high-stakes wage claims need counsel who already know where the litigation risk concentrates: which theories are gaining traction in which jurisdictions, which exemption categories are under the most regulatory scrutiny, and how plaintiffs' counsel approach class definitions. We recruit the lawyers who carry that knowledge.
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Where wage & hour hiring concentrates right now — each market backed by live mandates and our mapped field.
The searches we run in Wage & Hour.
Law-firm and corporate mandates alike — from a confidential lateral partner move to a first general counsel — each run on the same evidence-led method.
Lateral Partner & Practice-Group Moves
Confidential lateral partners and practice-group lift-outs, assessed on portable business, conflicts and platform fit.
Explore this search 02In-House & General Counsel
GC, deputy GC and senior counsel for companies operating across multiple jurisdictions.
Explore this search 03Associate & Counsel Recruiting
Mid-level and senior associates and counsel, matched on practice depth and trajectory, not keywords.
Explore this search 04Compliance & Regulatory Leadership
Chief compliance officers and regulatory leaders for the most heavily supervised practices.
Explore this searchBoth sides of the search.
For law firms
Lateral partners, practice groups and associates — a shortlist drawn from the full field of a practice, not a rented database.
Learn moreFor companies
General counsel, compliance and legal-operations leaders for businesses building or scaling a legal function.
Learn moreFor candidates
Considering a move? We approach senior lawyers privately and confidentially — nothing moves without your say-so.
Learn moreWage & Hour recruitment — common questions
How do you find wage and hour lawyers who specialise in this area rather than just touching it occasionally?
Our research identifies lawyers by the substantive weight of their wage and hour work — class and collective action experience, exemption analysis, state-specific wage payment disputes — not merely by practice group affiliation. Within our mapped population of 5,000+ lawyers with wage and hour experience, we can isolate those whose practices are concentrated in the specialism rather than treating it as an occasional matter.
How many live wage & hour roles does Sartori & Partners have?
We have 726 live wage & hour roles across our coverage, spanning 333 partner-level and 393 associate or counsel positions. Mandates in this area are typically confidential and off-market — these are only the roles we are actively able to share. Contact us to discuss what else is live.
What compensation do wage & hour roles typically offer?
Based on current live mandates, wage & hour role compensation in the US runs £100k–£455k. This reflects only the roles where the hiring organisation has authorised us to share a range publicly — many mandates are structured around the right candidate rather than a fixed band. Contact us for a candid benchmark for your specific profile.
Wage & Hour
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