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From Legal Soft

Find and Recruit Legal Talent for Law Firms

Legal Soft is a California-based legal staffing and recruiting firm that has helped law firms across the United States hire attorneys, paralegals, and legal support professionals since 2015. Our legal recruiters specialize exclusively in legal talent. We go beyond resumes and job boards to help your practice find candidates who match your work, standards, and pace.

Choose how you want to hire:

Legal Recruiting That Works the Way Law Firms Do

In a competitive legal market, finding reliable talent shouldn't slow your firm down. Legal Soft helps law firms hire candidates who understand legal environments and meet the standards your work demands. Each candidate is evaluated and prepared with practice-specific knowledge and experience, before being recommended to your firm. Here's what you get:
Legal Recruiters and Consultants

Our recruiting team works in legal exclusively, with a real understanding of the pace and pressure law firms operate under. Beyond filling roles, they advise on how to structure and grow your practice, drawing on Legal Soft’s experience serving more than 1,000 law firms.

Flexible Hiring Options

Choose from available legal candidates in our existing talent pool or request a custom search for a specific role. Either way, we help you compare candidates side by side with the option to hire quickly when you need talent now.

Free to Interview

Review and interview as many candidates as you need at no cost. Meet anyone, take your time, and move forward only when you've found the right fit.

Pay Only When You Hire

Legal Soft has zero risk hiring process with no retainer, no long-term commitment, and no fee to interview. You pay only once your selected hire starts working for you.

Practice Area Matching

From family law to litigation, we match candidates to your specific practice area and legal work your firm handles every day. You meet talent already familiar with your cases, systems, and team structure.

Structured Legal Recruiting & Vetting

Only the top talents reach you. Every candidate goes through a deep vetting process including live interviews, skills-based testing, background verification, and technology proficiency checks.

Legal Professionals for Every Role and Practice Area

Recruiting and placing legal talent is what we do. Whether you're a solo attorney or a large firm, our recruiters, backed by staffing experience and AI recruiting technology, match you with the best available candidate. Legal Soft can fill roles including:
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Attorneys

Hire attorneys ready to support legal research, case strategy, and complex matters in your practice area.
  • Bankruptcy Attorney
  • Business Attorney
  • Civil Litigation Attorney
  • Workers' Compensation Attorney
  • Criminal Defense Attorney
  • Employment Attorney
  • Estate Planning Attorney
  • Family Law Attorney
  • Immigration Attorney
  • Intellectual Property Attorney
  • Mass Tort Attorney
  • Personal Injury Attorney
  • Real Estate Attorney
  • Social Security Disability Attorney
  • Transactional Attorney
  • Tax Attorney
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Paralegals

Find paralegals from entry-level to senior positions who can assist your practice across every stage of legal work.
  • Bankruptcy Paralegal
  • Workers' Compensation Paralegal
  • Corporate Paralegal
  • Criminal Defense Paralegal
  • Employment and Labor Paralegal
  • Estate Planning Paralegal
  • Family Law Paralegal
  • Immigration Attorney
  • Intellectual Property Attorney
  • Litigation Paralegal
  • Personal Injury Paralegal
  • Real Estate Paralegal
  • Social Security Disability Paralegal
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Legal Support

Find legal professionals who can help your firm handle documents, communication, and daily administrative work.
  • Legal Assistant
  • Case Manager
  • Lien Negotiator
  • Legal Accountant
  • Intake Specialist
  • Receptionist
  • Document Collector
  • Demand Writer

Looking for a job?

Meet Our Legal Recruiting Team

Legal Soft's recruiting team is composed of senior recruiters and advisory experts with firsthand experience grounded in legal placement. Each one understands how to align hiring with your firm's compliance needs and business priorities.

Neil Ottesen
Neil Ottesen
Director of Staffing and Placement
Lynscee Joy Sarreal
Lynscee Joy Sarreal
Talent Acquisition Manager
Nairy_Mezian
Nairy Mezian
Pairing Manager
Phone
+1 (424) 341-4917
Visit Us
21731 Ventura Blvd. Suite 100 Woodland Hills, CA 91364
Office Hours
Mon-Fri, 8 AM-5 PM PST
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Fast Recruitment. Compliant Expertise.

Through a specialized legal recruitment process, we identify professionals who can support legal work at any scale. Our recruiting model gives legal departments and teams access to dedicated legal talent without the delays of traditional hiring. You receive a curated shortlist aligned with your firm's standards, and our team handles the onboarding and setup as your new hire gets started.

It’s Easy to Start

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Tell Us What You Need

Share your hiring and business goals. Then choose the path that works for you: explore live candidates yourself, or have a recruiter source and screen talent for you.

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Select Your Candidate

Our legal recruiters present candidates whose skills, experience level, and credentials match your firm’s hiring requirements. Review profile and interview anyone at no cost.

Start With Your New Hire

Once you select your talent, we coordinate the details with your internal process, from role expectations to start date, and handle onboarding for you.

Your Guide To Common Questions and Solutions

What is a legal recruiter? 

A legal recruiter is a human resources professional who finds and places qualified legal professionals for employers like law firms and legal departments. They source, screen, and recommend candidates for legal roles such as attorneys, paralegals,and other legal support positions. Legal recruiters may work as a direct employee of a law practice or for a recruitment services company.

What types of legal roles does Legal Soft recruit?

Legal Soft places attorneys, paralegals, legal assistants, case managers, intake specialists, lien negotiators, legal accountants, receptionists, document collectors, and demand writers. We recruit across a wide range of practice areas and at every level, from entry-level to senior positions. 

How quickly can you provide legal candidates?

For recruiting searches, we typically deliver a vetted shortlist of candidates within 48 hours. If you'd rather not wait, you can choose from our live talent pool and have someone start in three days or less.

Do candidates have experience with legal software?

Yes. After your consultation, we tailor the search to your firm's requirements, and personalized our vetting process around it. That way, you only meet candidates who are experienced with and prepared to work in your firm's software and systems. 

Do you offer replacement support if a candidate is not a fit?

Yes. If a hire isn't the right fit, we provide a free replacement at no additional cost.  Our goal is to make sure you’re not stuck with a placement that does not work for your firm.

When do we pay for our hire?

Matching and consultation with our team are completely free, and there's no cost to review or interview candidates. You pay only once your new hire starts working with you.

Do you handle onboarding?

Yes. After you select your candidate, Legal Soft helps manage the onboarding process for you. We prepare each professional to step into your systems and standards, so your new hire can start contributing quickly.

Ready to Get Started?

Meet our legal recruiting team to discuss your hiring needs and find your ideal candidate profile.