Articles from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment with advice on recruiting, finance, marketing, general business development, interviewing and more for law firms, legal employers and recruiters.
- Work Life Balance
- Why Should We Pay You a Fee Just to Send an Email Out?
- Where Are All the Candidates? How to Recruit New Lawyers
- What’s my business worth? The impossible question
- What to Expect From an In-House Legal Counsel Job Interview
- What Makes a Good Job Reference
- What is the Difference Between an Employment Business and an Employment Agency?
- What is the difference between a Paralegal and a Fee Earner in a Solicitors firm?
- What is a Sole Supplier Arrangement for a Recruitment Agency?
- What is a reasonable pay rise?
- What does QBE stand for?
- What do Umbrella Companies do and is there any point a solicitor using one to do locum work?
- We want to recruit a paralegal and he’s got to be male
- Video CVs – Are they the Future?
- Using LinkedIn for Recruitment
- Trends in Legal Recruitment: What Law Firms and In-House Legal Departments Need to Know in 2024
- Training your Secretaries to sell
- Toxic Cultures in the Workplace
- Top 5 Tips for Getting the most out of Candidates
- Top 4 Queries to our Website over the New Year
- Thinking of Closing your Law Firm? Think again..
- The false economy of paying low wages
- The Do’s and Don’ts of Job References
- The Death of 20 Days Annual Leave
- The Baby Boom Locum Maternity Cover Phenomenon
- Ten Ways to Get Fired
- Technical Questions in a Legal Job Interview
- Taking Up References
- Solicitor & Legal Executive Salary Level Guide October 2023
- Selling a Law Firm – What’s it Worth?
- Salary Reviews – how to avoid pay rises (and lose staff)
- Salary Myths and the Legal Profession
- Role of Recruitment Agencies in the post-recession world
- Rogue Recruitment Agencies and Phantom Jobs
- Rewards & Benefits to Employees in the Legal Sector
- Restrictive Covenants – do they put employees off?
- Restrictive Covenants – recent Supreme Court ruling
- Regional Variations in Legal Recruitment
- Recruitment agents hardly do anything other than send CVs – why should we pay you?
- Recruiting an unaffordable candidate – what can I do?
- Questions to our Recruitment Consultants via our Chat Service
- Questions for our Recruitment Consultants
- Pricing Strategies for Law Firms
- Podcasts – a benefit to my business?
- Pie in the Sky Law Firm Valuations
- Paralegals are more likely not to turn up for Job Interviews than any other staff. Why?
- Open Plan Offices and Solicitors
- NQ Solicitor Salary £100,000 per annum – but is there a catch?
- New LAA Contract Awards for Family, Mental Health etc. – how not to recruit Supervisors for new contract awards
- Negotiating for the sake of negotiating – the risks of haggling on salary during the job offer process
- My Law Firm Wants to Grow – Any Ideas?
- Mothers Returning to Work in the Legal Profession – A Missed Opportunity?
- Matching Current Salary with a Job Offer – a good idea?
- Making Low Job Offers
- Locums Reluctant to Take Office Based Roles since July 2020
- Locums Covering More Than One Field of Law
- Locum Solicitors and the Curse of the Client’s Change of Plans
- Locum Solicitors and ILEX Hourly Rates for March 2017
- Legal Recruitment Firm fakes its own staff
- Legal Jobs in the Middle East – do we cover recruitment in the region?
- Legal Job Interview Techniques – The Fake Receptionist
- Lawyers returning to work after children
- Law Firms and Google Adwords Expenditure
- Law Firm Members Newsletter
- Law Firm Advertising, Marketing and Following the Crowd
- Lack of Quality Candidates or Just Low Pay?
- Keeping good accounts when selling a law firm
- Is now a good time to sell my business?
- Is a Job Interview the Best Way of Assessing a Candidate?
- IR35 and Local Authority Contractors – are we heading towards the same regime for Private Practice?
- Improving Conditions to Retain Staff
- Improve your chances of success of recruiting Conveyancing Solicitors
- I’ve been working from an office for 40 years, so why can’t others?
- I want to Recruit a Solicitor with a Client Following
- I want a solicitor with a following…but how would you like it?
- How to Retain Law Staff in a Busy Legal Job Market
- How to negotiate a pay rise and how to deal with a request for a pay rise
- How to Make an Offer to Buy a Law Firm
- How to get a new employee off to the best start
- How to deal with a Pompous Arse
- How to be a Nice Boss at Christmas
- How much money can you earn as a freelancer, locum or consultant in law?
- How much do Sole Practitioners Earn?
- How does the economic cycle affect locum & permanent work?
- How do we as a Legal Recruitment Agency check and verify candidates?
- Horrible Bosses and the January Phenomenon of Staff Giving Notice
- Hiring for Attitude – New Approaches to Recruitment
- Guide to Locum Solicitors Hourly Rates of Pay September 2017
- Good Work Life Balance and the Legal Profession
- Getting More Work
- General Practice Solicitors – do they exist?
- Four Day Working Weeks – Can They Work?
- Flexible Hours and the Legal Profession
- First Meetings for Law Firm Sales – Neutral Locations
- Family Panel and Resolution Accredited Specialists
- Fake News – is there a Shortage of Conveyancing Locums vs Wills & Probate Locum Solicitors?
- Extracting yourself from your Law Firm – advice for partners and directors
- Etiquette for Locums
- Empowering Employees Drives Productivity
- Employing Good and Happy Receptionists in Law Firms
- Effective Interview Techniques for Employers
- Don’t tell candidates they have been rejected until you are absolutely sure that you don’t want them.
- Discussing Flexible Hours or Child Care in a Job Interview
- Discrimination in Recruitment – is it rife?
- Deal Structure v Valuation – which is more important?
- Contract Manager or Legal Counsel – Tailoring Job Applications
- Choosing the Spec for In House Lawyer Vacancies
- Can you help me revolutionise the legal profession?
- Business meetings – a thing of the past and is it normal to continue working during them?
- Bonus Schemes – love them or hate them
- Becoming a Legal Expert in 10,000 Hours – is it really achievable?
- Bad Locums – avoiding them and bad law firms
- Attaching a Time Limit to a Job Offer
- Are psychometric tests a good idea for solicitor recruitment?
- Application Forms – Solicitors detest them!
- 10 Top Interview Tips for Interviewers