Linking Legal

Linking Legal is a legal headhunting and consultancy firm founded in Barcelona in 2023 as a business specialising in the search and selection of legal profiles for law firms and companies. It presents itself as the key tool for securing the best legal talent, and says the more than 15 years of experience behind it support both its knowledge of the market and its judgement in bringing each process to a successful conclusion. The firm publishes its own blog, the LinkingBlog, which has covered subjects such as the position of women in the legal sector, retirement in the largest firms, the rise of legal operations as a role, and the importance of personal branding for law firm lawyers.

The core business is search and selection of legal profiles, covering legal, tax and compliance roles for both law firms and in-house employers. Beyond search, Linking Legal offers human resources management consultancy and can operate as an external HR department, preparing career plans, designing performance evaluation systems and managing the whole recruiting process end to end. It advises on mergers and integrations between law firms, providing comprehensive support through those processes. It also advises individual professionals who find themselves at a moment of career transition and want guidance and accompaniment through a change. A partners section sets out the firms and businesses it works alongside.

Linking Legal works from Paris 209 in Barcelona and serves law firms and companies looking for lawyers, tax specialists and compliance professionals. Its published articles show the questions it engages with on behalf of candidates, including how to evaluate a client portfolio when aiming for partnership in a current firm or elsewhere, and what options exist beyond the retirement wall in the biggest firms. Clients and candidates reach the firm directly on +34 93 380 15 52 or at its info address, without a layer of account handling in between. Its positioning is deliberately narrow: leading the way in the search for legal talent, in one specialist market rather than general recruitment.