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Free for legal recruiting and staffing desks

You have the candidates. We hand you the orders.

Every legal desk is candidate-rich and order-poor. LegalAlphabet flips that. Browse 9,617+ live legal mandates across 95 countries, submit candidates in one click, track every placement, and list your agency to be discoverable to hiring companies. Free, starting today.

Free forever to list your agency, browse live mandates, submit candidates, save searches and track your pipeline. No credit card. No demo to sit through. Nothing to migrate, keep your current ATS.

Live9,617+live legal mandates to work
Live95countries, one searchable feed
Live1,597+legal candidates, legal-only

Aggregated daily from thousands of employers and job boards worldwide, deduped into one searchable feed.

The thing you are short on is not candidates.

Your bench is deep and your inbox is full of CVs. What runs a recruiting desk dry is not supply, it is demand: live job orders you can actually submit against. In 2026, the hardest part of running a legal recruiting business is not finding candidates, it is finding the clients and the orders. LegalAlphabet starts on the order side. The moment you sign up, you are looking at thousands of live legal mandates aggregated from across the market, the scarce thing every other platform sells you more candidates instead of.

What you already have

A deep bench. CVs. Candidate search. Every tool sells you more of this.

What you are short on

Live job orders to submit against. Real client demand. The scarce asset.

What we give first

Thousands of live legal mandates, free, the day you sign up.

Create your free desk

Your whole desk. Free.

Not a stripped trial. Not a teaser. The complete working surface a legal recruiting desk runs on, at no cost, with no card and no caps. You never hit a paywall to do your actual job: find orders, work your bench, and track placements.

Free

Live mandates, not a resume dump

One searchable feed of open legal job orders pulled daily from thousands of employers and boards worldwide. Filter by practice area, country and role type to find exactly what fits your bench.

What you do today: open the board and find five mandates your candidates already fit.

Browse mandates
Free

Submit a candidate in one click

See a mandate that fits your bench? Put a candidate forward in one click, straight against the order. No re-keying, no copy-paste between tabs, no email back-and-forth. No limit on how many you submit.

What you do today: shortlist the live orders your bench already matches and submit.

Start submitting
Free

Track every candidate to placement

A clean pipeline for every submission you make. Move each candidate through Submitted, Viewed, Shortlisted, Interviewing and Placed, so you always know which fills are close.

What you do today: see at a glance which candidate is closest to a fee.

Open your pipeline
Free

Be first to a new order

Save any search by keyword, location, practice area or role type, and get a daily email the moment matching mandates appear. First desk to a fresh order usually wins the placement.

What you do today: save your niche search; tomorrow new matching orders land in your inbox.

Set up alerts
Free

Get found by hiring companies

List your agency in the public directory so hiring companies browse and contact you by practice area and region. Inbound legal client demand, with zero ad spend. Be one of the first legal agencies listed; free after a quick verification, usually within a day.

What you do today: publish your agency profile and start showing up to hiring companies.

List your agency free
Free

A global, legal-only candidate pool

Attorneys, paralegals and legal-ops professionals who use LegalAlphabet to find their next role. All legal, no generalist noise to dig through, on the same platform you work your desk from.

What you do today: match a live mandate to a candidate already on your bench.

Create your free desk

All of it, free. No credit card. No contract. Export your data any time.

Free is the desk, not the demo.

Most free recruiting tools cap your candidates, meter your contacts, or hold your data hostage to force you into an enterprise contract. We do not play that game. Free fully works the market that already exists, and you never hit a paywall to do your job.

  • No candidate caps and no contact metering. Work as many mandates and candidates as you want.
  • No credit card to start and no contract to cancel. Keep the ATS and CRM you already use.
  • Your bench, your submissions and your client notes stay yours. Export any time.

From signup to your first submission in minutes.

01

Create your free desk

Sign up as an agency in about 30 seconds. No credit card, nothing to migrate, keep the ATS you already use.

02

Browse mandates that fit your bench

Browse 9,617+ live legal mandates across 95 countries and shortlist the ones your candidates already match. Save the searches that matter and let daily alerts do the watching.

03

Submit and track to placement

Put your candidates forward in one click and follow each one from Submitted to Placed in your pipeline. That is the fill.

Why a legal desk picks LegalAlphabet over the rest

Every other platform sells you more candidates, the thing you already have, and meters you per seat, per slot, or per contact to do it. We start with the scarce thing: live legal orders, free.

Scroll the table sideways to compare

What a legal desk needs LegalAlphabet LinkedIn Recruiter Indeed ZipRecruiter Bullhorn
Price to start $0. Free forever.FREE from ~$170/mo per seat, up to ~$10,800/seat per year $25+ per job, plus ~$120 to $300/mo for resume contacts free 4 days, then ~$299 to $899 per job slot no free tier, ~$99 to $315 per user/mo, multi-year contract
Live legal job orders handed to you Yes. Thousands live, one searchable feed No. It sells candidate search No. You post ads, you do not receive orders No. It sells distribution No. It organizes your own pipeline
Legal-only, not a generalist pool Yes. Legal roles and candidates only No. All industries No. All industries No. All industries Generalist staffing
Submit a candidate against an order Yes. One-click, free Manual outreach (InMail, throttled) No concept of an order No Tracks your own submissions, does not supply the order
Daily new-order alerts Yes, free No order concept Job alerts, not orders No No
Track submissions to Placed Yes, free Project folders No No Yes, paid add-ons
Get found by hiring companies Yes. Free public agency directory No No No No
Global coverage Yes. Legal roles across many countries Large but generalist pool Large but generalist US-weighted Your own data only
Per-seat, per-slot or per-contact lock-in None. Unlimited use Per seat Per click plus per contact Per job slot Per seat, ~20% renewal hikes reported

Competitor pricing and terms are buyer-reported and change often. LinkedIn, Indeed, ZipRecruiter and Bullhorn do not publish fixed pricing, so figures are approximate ranges, not official quotes. Features change; the structural point does not: they sell you candidates and outreach per seat, they do not hand you live legal job orders. LegalAlphabet numbers are live and update daily. Our edge is legal focus, live orders, and free, not raw pool size.

Optional upside

Free works the market you have. Premium helps you win the market you do not.

Everything that runs your desk is free and stays free. The paid plans are for the next move: winning new clients. From $49 a month you get demand-intelligence leads, a deduped, company-level feed of organizations actively hiring legal talent right now, mined from the public jobs feed. These are warm business-development targets: the job orders an agency pays to win.

  • Demand-intelligence leads: companies hiring legal talent right now, deduped by company. The new clients an agency pays to win.
  • Filter by country and practice area, and export the full list to CSV to work your business development.

From $49 / month. Prices shown openly. No contract. No demo wall. Cancel any time.

Explore Agency Pro

You never need this to do your job. Free already gives you the full desk.

Questions legal recruiters ask before they sign up

Is there really a free platform for legal recruiters in 2026?
Yes. LegalAlphabet is free for legal recruiting and staffing agencies. List your agency, browse thousands of live legal mandates across many countries, submit candidates in one click, save searches, get daily alerts, and track every placement, all at no cost. No credit card, no trial clock, no demo wall. The numbers on this page are live and update daily.
What do I get free, and what do the paid plans add?
Free covers your whole desk: the live mandates board, one-click candidate submissions, your submissions pipeline, saved searches, daily mandate alerts, and a public agency profile. Optional paid plans (from $49/mo) add demand-intelligence leads, companies hiring legal talent right now deduped by company, plus CSV export of the full list, to help you win new clients. Free is complete; the paid plans are pure upside.
What are live legal mandates and where do they come from?
They are open legal job orders and roles aggregated daily from thousands of employers and job boards worldwide into one searchable, deduped feed. Instead of cold-prospecting for orders, a candidate-rich desk sees exactly what the market is hiring for right now, filterable by practice area, country and role type.
How do I submit a candidate to a mandate?
Open any mandate on the Live Mandates Board and click Submit a candidate. Add their details and we notify the employer where the role was posted. Then track each submission through Submitted, Viewed, Shortlisted, Interviewing and Placed. It is free, with no limit on how many candidates you put forward.
Will you go around me to my candidate or my client?
No. A mandate is a lead to you, not a deal taken from you. You submit your candidate, you own the relationship, and LegalAlphabet never contacts your candidate or your client behind your back. We supply the order; the placement and the fee are yours.
Is this just another candidate database I do not need?
No. You are already candidate-rich. What a legal desk is short on is live orders, and that is what we lead with. The candidate pool is legal-only with no generalist noise, but the heart of the platform is demand: thousands of live legal mandates you can work the day you sign up.
How is this different from LinkedIn Recruiter, Indeed or Bullhorn?
Those are generalist or paid-first, and they sell you more candidates per seat, per slot, or per contact. LinkedIn Recruiter can cost as much as roughly $10,800 per seat per year; Bullhorn has no free tier and locks you into a multi-year contract. LegalAlphabet is legal-only, free to start, global, and built around live legal job orders plus free one-click submission, the things a legal desk actually needs.
Is free a bait-and-switch with hidden caps?
No. There are no candidate caps, no contact metering, and no credit card to start. You can export your data any time. The only paid thing is the optional demand-intelligence plans (from $49/mo) for winning new clients, and prices are shown openly with no contact-us wall.
Do I have to migrate or replace my current ATS?
No. Keep the ATS and CRM you already use. LegalAlphabet adds the one thing they do not give you, live legal orders, plus a lightweight pipeline to track the submissions you make here. Setup takes about five minutes with nothing to import.
How do I get found by hiring companies?
List your agency in the public directory, where hiring companies browse and contact recruiters by practice area and region. Listing is free after a quick verification, usually within a day. The directory is new, so early agencies get the most visibility.

Last updated June 2026

More mandates worked. More placements. More clients won. Start free today.

Create your desk in under a minute and you are looking at live legal orders the same session. No per-seat fee, no contract, no credit card.

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