Reading Time: < 1 minuteTen Percent would like to build a picture of the current situation regarding residential conveyancing across the UK legal job market. We hope that the data collected will assist firms and candidates alike with decision making over the months to come.
Reading Time: 4 minutesNew candidates looking for work and law firms for sale. Update sent to law firms 1st July 2020 by Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment and Interim Lawyers.
Reading Time: 5 minutesNew candidate update dated 24th June 2020 from Ten Percent Legal and Interim Lawyers. Includes recently registered permanent and locum candidates, together with law firms for sale.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteTen Percent Legal would like to build a picture of the current situation across the UK legal job market for locums. We hope that the data collected will assist locums generally in the future.
Reading Time: 5 minutesNew Solicitors registering and law firms for sale. Update from Ten Percent Legal and Interim Lawyers dated 17th June 2020.
Reading Time: 5 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 willing to work on an ad hoc basis. CAN-30178 Bristol 20 year PQE Company Commercial Solicitor dealing…
Reading Time: < 1 minuteLegal Recruitment News from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment. Legal job market updates, hourly rates, articles on careers, law firm sales and more.
Reading Time: 2 minutesLegal job market report dated 3rd June 2020 from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment.
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.
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…
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…
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…
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?
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.
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…
Reading Time: < 1 minuteLegal Recruitment News May 2020 including job market report, locum hourly rates, CV writing services, remote working, business meetings and more.
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…