Yes, recommend someone with your words about the ways they rocked you, citing examples and anecdotal evidence that they are amazing-er.
Send your recommendation unannounced and they can either publish it to their profile or ask you to make changes.
If they ask you to make a change, it’s going to reflect best on both of you. Or because they have compliance issues in the financial services industry they must abide with, or because their local bar association has ethics rules that hem them in. Or because they want to emphasize something that you can help them make others aware of.
So be generous and they will always remember you for your well-intentioned offer to help them.
Wonderful way to start the year, huh?