A legal headhunter’s advice column for job-seeking lawyers had recruiters at major law firms fuming this week.

A. Harrison Barnes, founder and a managing director of BCG Attorney Search in California, wrote that some female recruiters use their positions to find spouses among the associates and partners at their firms. He said most law firms fill recruiting jobs with women who are “quite attractive and fit,” but also sometimes “ditzy” and “more focused on themselves than their jobs.”

A. Harrison Barnes.