In all fairness, in my 7-plus years with them, they are orthodox in the Faith and in their offering of the Holy Sacrifice in the Novus Ordo rite. There are no abuses, and their catechesis and spirituality is rock solid.
Their recruitment methods and "methodolgy" and "formation" is NOT. It is coercive.
The recruitment is coercive? How so? My spiritual director is an LC priest, and he never forced my hand in any decision. All he did was help me be decisive. He made it clear to me that the LCs is always an option. But when I decided to apply to a diocesan seminary, he seemed rather convinced that that was my vocation, not the Legion. If the recruitment practices are so coercive, then why didn't he try to convince me more to join the Legion. I think the recruitment methods are actually quite good because they confronted me with the decision I had before me and helped me to evaluate where I was spiritually at different points along the way. He was persistent, however, and persistently asked me where I thought I was in my discernment. Maybe this persistence is what people mean by coercive.
Perhaps my case is the singular exception. But I think that the LC priest was simply very sincerely concerned with helping me discern my vocation, whatever it was to be.