CV Review for a Postgraduate Law Student
Reading Time: 3 minutesCV Review for a Postgraduate Law Student in Bristol – a free service for anyone consenting to their CV being posted on the internet.
Jonathan Fagan
Jonathan Fagan LLM FIRP is Managing Director of Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment. He has been recruiting solicitors and legal support staff for law firms and in house legal departments for over 25 years and handles law firm sales & mergers. A non-practising solicitor on the Roll since 2000, he is also the author of a number of legal career books. You can contact Jonathan at cv@ten-percent.co.uk
New Candidates and Law Firms for Sale 27th May 2020
Reading Time: 4 minutesPlease find below a list of available locums and permanent candidates registering over the last 7 days. New Locum/Consultant Lawyers Click here to book a locum or call 0800 246 5001. We have 1064 locum and consultant solicitors registered on our platform, with hourly rates starting at just £25 plus agency fees. Most locums currently…
Candidate and Law Firms for Sale Update 20th May 2020
Reading Time: 4 minutesNew Locum/Consultant Lawyers Click here to book a locum or call 0800 246 5001. We have 1064 locum and consultant solicitors registered on our platform, with hourly rates starting at just £25 plus agency fees. Most locums currently available to work remotely as required and on an ongoing ad hoc basis. CAN-1135 Solicitor with 15…
Candidate Update 13th May 2020
Reading Time: 5 minutesPlease find below a list of available locums and permanent candidates registering/going live over the last 14 days. New for 2020 – Fixed Rate Consultants – select an hourly rate & field of law, click a button, we send you CVs. New for 2020 – The Locum Bank – a selection of the regular locums…
Business meetings – a thing of the past and is it normal to continue working during them?
Reading Time: 2 minutesBusiness meetings – a waste of time in the post-coronavirus world? And is it normal for someone to work on their laptop throughout a meeting? Is Zoom the future?
Can a Solicitor be a Millionaire – recent question
Reading Time: < 1 minuteCan a solicitor be a millionaire – advice on whether it is possible. If you dont bother reading the article – yes it is! But probably not as a solicitor, more as a business person.
Legal Job Market Report May 2020
Reading Time: 2 minutesHere is our summary of the current state of the legal job market: Permanent Recruitment Bordering on non-existent, although a number of firms are reporting being very busy. Candidates not yet willing to apply for roles as too much uncertainty and firms therefore not getting many applications for vacancies cropping up. Locum Recruitment Not busy…
Legal Recruitment News May 2020
Reading Time: < 1 minuteLegal Recruitment News May 2020 including job market report, locum hourly rates, CV writing services, remote working, business meetings and more.
Candidate Update 29th April 2020
Reading Time: 5 minutesPlease find below a list of available locums and permanent candidates registering over the last 7 days. New for 2020 – Fixed Rate Locums – select an hourly rate & field of law, click a button, we send you CVs. New for 2020 – The Locum Bank – a selection of the regular locums we…
Candidate Update 22nd April 2020
Reading Time: 5 minutesPlease find below a list of locums available to assist – we have a good selection of commercial, corporate, private client, litigation and of course conveyancing locums currently looking for remote work. We have also had a number of permanent candidates interested in options either immediately via remote working/on site or once the current crisis…
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Furloughed? Spend an hour updating your CV – a guide
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhilst you are sat at home potentially twiddling your thumbs (or redecorating the lounge) what could be a better time to spend an hour or so improving your CV? So many people have CVs that could be dramatically improved – they are too short, not enough detail, not up to date, not enough factual information,…
Legal Job Market Report April 2020
Reading Time: 2 minutesWelcome to possibly the shortest legal job market update I have written in over 15 years of writing monthly legal job market reports for Ten Percent Legal. In a nutshell the permanent job market has shuddered to a halt, locum work has dramatically dropped, but the law firm sale market seems active still (whether or…
Getting More Work
Reading Time: 4 minutesWe took a call a few weeks ago from a sole practitioner specialising in employment law and some other forms of litigation. He explained that his caseload was such that although he had enough work for two or three days per week he was looking for a way of increasing his working week and his…
What type of law pays the most?
Reading Time: 4 minutesRule of Thumb for Pay A simple rule of thumb is that corporate and commercial law fields pay well, personal service law fields pay not so well. Corporate and commercial solicitors can be earning £100k and upwards, personal service law fields (aka high street solicitors) earn up to around £50k in most cases. Local authority…
New Candidate Update 12th March 2020
Reading Time: 3 minutesNew Locum Lawyers Click here to book a locum (we have 1064 locum solicitors registered on our platform, with hourly rates starting at just £25 plus agency fees) or call 0800 246 5001. CAN-30034 Residential and Commercial Property Solicitor looking for locum posts following a short career break. CAN-29926 25 year PQE Corporate Commercial Solicitor…
Interview Question 38 – Did you increase sales or profits in your last job?
Reading Time: 2 minutesAdvice This is a difficult question if you have not worked in a senior managerial post or sales and profits did not increase in your last job. This is also difficult if you are applying at a time of recession rather than at a time of boom because sales and profits do not necessarily increase…
Interview Question 37 – Did you feel you progressed satisfactorily in your last job?
Reading Time: 2 minutesAdvice This is a loaded question, if you say anything negative about a former employer it immediately makes the interviewer think you are likely to consider them in a similar fashion in a few years’ time. If however your application to the firm has been on the basis that there has been a lack of…
A third class degree and re-entering the law
Reading Time: 2 minutesA graduate has recently written to us to ask us for advice on what to do with a third class degree and a potential legal career. The graduate finished at university in September 2017 with a third class law degree and his query to us also stated the fact that he had not got any…
Legal Job Market Report 12th March 2020
Reading Time: 2 minutesLegal Recruitment – busy market Each month we run a comparison between the last calendar month and the same time period in 2019 to see if there has been any noticeable difference. In January we saw very little change from 2019 to 2020. So how was February 2020 compared to February 2019? We saw a…
New Candidates 26th February 2020
Reading Time: 3 minutesGood morning – please find below a list of lawyers registered with Ten Percent Legal in the past 7 days. We have over 11,000 solicitors on our database. Unable to find a suitable candidate in the list below? Let us help. Drop us an email over or give us a call and we would be…
Interview Question – did you enjoy university?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteInterview Question 36 Advice This again is a fairly simple question with a fairly straight forward answer to it. Remember at all times in interview you must stay positive. Failing to stay positive will result in firms unnecessarily considering you to have negative thoughts. Negative thoughts in interview indicates someone who may be overly critical…
Interview Question – Did your (university) course live up to expectations?
Reading Time: 2 minutesInterview Question 35 – Did the course live up to your expectations? Advice This relates specifically to somebody who has just left university and has very little work experience for the interviewer to discuss and explore. It will rarely be asked of anyone who has been out of college or university for a number of…
Legal Job Market Report 12th February 2020
Reading Time: 2 minutesLegal Recruitment – busy market Each month we run a comparison between the last calendar month and the same time period in 2019 to see if there has been any noticeable difference. In December we saw a 63% decrease in the number of permanent vacancies registered with us and a 100% increase in the number…
New Registrations – Solicitors seeking work 9th February 2020
Reading Time: 3 minutesPlease find below a list of lawyers registered with Ten Percent Legal in the past 7 days. We have over 11,000 solicitors on our database. Unable to find a suitable candidate in the list below? Let us help. Drop us an email over or give us a call and we would be glad to assist.…
Choosing the Spec for In House Lawyer Vacancies
Reading Time: 5 minutesCompanies often call us up with their specifications for in-house legal posts, and this invariably involves a little bit of negotiation on what is essential and what is desirable. Quite often companies start with the idea that certain particulars are essential, but after reviewing CVs for a little while, realise that actually a lot of…
Candidate Update 29th January 2020 – new solicitor registrations
Reading Time: 3 minutesGood morning – please find below a list of lawyers registered with Ten Percent Legal in the past 14 days. We have over 11,000 solicitors on our database. Unable to find a suitable candidate in the list below? Let us help. Drop us an email over or give us a call and we would be…
Candidate Update 22nd January 2020
Reading Time: 3 minutesGood morning – please find below a list of lawyers registered with Ten Percent Legal in the past 14 days. We have over 11,000 solicitors on our database. Unable to find a suitable candidate in the list below? Let us help. Drop us an email over or give us a call and we would be…
First Meetings for Law Firm Sales – Neutral Locations
Reading Time: 2 minutesI have found myself today emailing the same information across to at least three different law firms in relation to potential acquisitions and meeting the sellers for the first time. Buyers seem to want to go straight into the sellers’ offices and meet them, as well as expecting the seller to want to arrange this…
Interview Question 34 – Describe your strongest and weakest colleagues – how do you cope with such diverse personalities?
Reading Time: 2 minutesAdvice This is a difficult question because it is asking you to in some way criticise work colleagues and to perhaps idolise other work colleagues. This is a question potentially loaded towards the interviewer as opposed to the interviewee. At its rawest form you could end up giving an answer that indicates to the interview…