Hi, I am looking to hire a lawyer for my Golden Visa application through real estate investment. Have anyone heard of or worked with the Martinez Echevarría (ME&F) law firm. Would you recommend them? Thanks!
It all boils down to the lawyer who shall be working with you rather than a firm in general. Although the GV application is straightforward and several options are just like a checkbox, choose a lawyer who takes responsibility to follow-up on the application process, patiently answers your questions and available for you when you need them. Internet is a bad place to look for a specific advice and recommendation, choose someone with whom you are comfortable to work with.
To add to @TommyReine points, interview your lawyers and ensure you feels it’s a good fit from a knowledge, experience, responsiveness, and empathy perspective. Optimally you’ll be working with them until citizenship. 
We had several great discussions with different lawyers but disqualified ones that were slow in follow-ups. With two different firms, after the interview call, it took over a week and two follow-up e-mails to get their engagement letters. Big flag for us so we moved forward with another who was very responsive. But that was one of our must-haves.
ME are useless. We tried them and they were impossible to work with, extremely unprofessional and did not seem to understand the legal issues. ME is definitely a no go zone if you want things done properly.
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I had the same experience with them. STAY AWAY!!!
My recent experience of MEF is very good indeed.
It is my understanding that in past years their size and standing brought in a lot of business, probably more than could be optimally serviced.
They have adapted, employed more lawyers and as a result their business seems to have been transformed.
A business is never immune from issues, but being proactive and adjusting to improve is precisely what makes a good business.
In summary, the posts here do not reflect the current business of MEF in my opinion.
I am very pleased to still be a client of MEF, and as a result of their efforts on my behalf, I am hoping to shortly post a very postive development.
You pays your money and makes your choice, but some poor or out of date reviews lead you to a worse outcome.