Applicant tracking system for law firms and legal teams

A legal ATS built for confidential, structured hiring across the firm

The best candidates have options. Pinpoint is the ATS that helps law firms and solicitors' firms move faster with confidential searches, structured evaluation, and a hiring experience that reflects your firm's standards.

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How to choose the best ATS for law firm recruitment

Choosing the best ATS for law firm recruitment means finding one that fits how firms actually hire: confidential partner searches, lateral searches, and graduate hiring all need structured evaluation, and evidence of a process that stands up to scrutiny. Look for an ATS that flexes across practice groups and multiple offices while keeping every hire consistent. Pinpoint covers all of this for law firms and solicitors' firms, with confidential, audit-ready hiring built in.
Faster hiring that wins top candidates
When strong candidates are fielding multiple offers at once, the firm that moves fastest usually wins. Self-scheduling and streamlined manager review remove days of unnecessary back-and-forth.
Sensitive searches stay protected
Partner appointments and lateral searches are locked to named users from the moment a role is created. Nothing appears in shared pipeline views, and no notifications reach the wider firm without your say.
Graduate intake at scale without manual work
Structured screening, batch assessment tools, and bulk communications enable a small team to process hundreds of training contract applications without losing the personal touch that top candidates expect.
Every role type hired the right way
Associates, partners, paralegals, and business services roles all follow different processes. Each runs exactly as it should in Pinpoint, without anyone compromising to fit the same template.
Hiring decisions your firm can defend
Scorecards, anonymized screening, and consistent evaluation criteria give your team the records to explain every decision to partners, candidates, or anyone else who asks.
A candidate experience that reflects the firm
Clear timelines, prompt responses, and a polished process are candidates' first impression of how your firm operates. Getting it right matters as much as getting it fast.
"I just love that I can manage everything and every role in one place without having to jump between systems.”
Liz Mellor
Head of Talent Acquisition for North America, Davies Group

Built for structured, high-trust hiring

Structured interview scorecards

Pinpoint's scorecard builder lets your team create role-specific evaluation frameworks covering technical skills, commercial acumen, cultural fit, and anything else that matters for a given appointment. Every interviewer scores the same criteria, results aggregate automatically, and the full record is stored.

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Confidential search controls

Job-specific access controls let your team lock down any role so only approved individuals can see it. Partner searches, lateral hires, and politically sensitive appointments don't appear in shared pipeline views, notifications don't reach the wider firm, and candidate data stays with the people who need it.

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 Anonymized screening

When anonymization is enabled, Pinpoint strips name, gender markers, educational institution, and other identifying details from candidate profiles before hiring managers review them. Decisions are made on qualifications and experience alone. The full profile is restored once the shortlist is confirmed, and the record is stored for any compliance or diversity review.

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Talent Pipelines

Pinpoint supports entirely separate pipeline configurations for graduate intake and lateral hiring, each with its own stages, communications, and approval chains. Training contract cycles run alongside opportunistic lateral searches, with no crossover. Tag candidates by specialism and PQE level so your team has warm, relevant options ready when a role opens.

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Everything law firms need in one ATS

Conflict of interest screening at shortlist stage
SRA regulatory reference workflow
Confidential search access controls
Fee earner and business services pipeline separation
NQ solicitor and associate talent pools
Partner-track pipeline management
Anonymous shortlisting for fairer sifting
Competency scorecards for legal roles
Background checks via Certn
Interview scheduling and panel coordination
Offer management and approvals
Reporting by practice area, department, and seniority
GDPR-compliant candidate records
The Lawyer, Roll on Friday, and sector board integrations
Structured reference management
Employer branding for legal talent attraction
Professional Services

Lower

risk of candidates stalling

Improved

visibility for TA leaders and stakeholders

3,500

employees supported in the states

“I just love that I can manage everything and every role in one place without having to jump between systems.”
Liz Mellor
Head of Talent Acquisition for North America, Davies Group
Professional Services

Interview scheduling

from hours to fully automated

Full team

adoption in five weeks

Full

advertising control for People & Culture

“Pinpoint is so quick and user-friendly. We have saved so much time on admin since we started using it. I don't think I could ever go back to our old way of recruiting!”
Katie De Carteret
People & Culture Senior Administrator, Grant Thornton
Professional Services

40 days

to as little as one: time to fill slashed

Hours saved

weekly through bulk messaging

Fewer update

calls with real-time visibility

“With Pinpoint, you can see what you've done the past month, the past quarter, the past year to try and make good predictions that set you up for success."
Cam Skinner
Head of Internal Talent, Instant Impact

Trusted by legal hiring teams

Award winning and highly rated
Secure and compliant by design

Multi-stream hiring for legal teams

See how Pinpoint helps legal teams run structured, auditable, multi-stream hiring in a single platform.
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Yes. Pinpoint works for firms from mid-size regionals to large nationals, as well as in-house legal teams and legal services businesses. You can configure workflows for fee earner hiring, business services, and partner-level searches, all inside the same platform with the appropriate access controls for each.

Most teams are live within a few weeks. We configure your workflows, practice area access controls, and compliance check integrations before your first role goes live. Implementation is handled by our team directly.

Yes. Pinpoint runs entirely separate processes for NQ solicitors, associates, senior associates, partners, and business services roles at the same time. Each stream has its own stages, evaluation criteria, and approval workflows, without any of them interfering with the others.

Pinpoint's offer stage includes a configurable regulatory reference template that's sent and tracked from the candidate record. Every request, response, and outcome is logged. Your HR team has a complete reference trail for every appointment without chasing correspondence across separate systems.

Yes. Pinpoint lets you add conflict disclosure questions to your application or shortlisting process. Candidates disclose their current and recent client relationships, and your team reviews potential conflicts before progressing anyone to interview. It's a standard stage in the workflow rather than something managed outside the system.

Yes. Pinpoint's structured scorecards and decision logging mean every hiring decision — including partnership appointments — comes with a complete, auditable record of how the decision was reached. Every score, every note, and every stage progression is logged against the candidate record.

Yes. Access to any role or candidate list in Pinpoint can be restricted to named users only. For a partner-level or senior search, only the people you specify can view the shortlist or take action on a candidate. Nobody outside that group sees the search exists.

Yes. Each hiring stream in Pinpoint has its own application form, stages, scorecards, and offer workflow. Your fee earner coordinator manages solicitor appointments while your HR team runs business services hiring — same platform, no crossover, and full visibility for whoever needs the oversight.

Yes. Pinpoint's talent pools let you identify strong candidates at the training contract stage and stay in contact as they move toward qualification. Tag them by expected qualification date and practice area so you're already in conversation when the NQ market opens, rather than competing for candidates at the same time as every other firm.

Yes. Anonymous screening removes candidate names and identifying details during the initial sifting stage. For law firms looking to support diversity in fee earner pipelines, this helps panels focus on application content and experience rather than personal information at the shortlist stage.

Yes. Pinpoint includes a fully customizable careers site where you can feature your firm's culture, practice areas, pro bono commitments, and career development content. In a competitive lateral hire market, your employer brand does real work in convincing strong candidates to take your call seriously.