Reading Time: 3 minutesOne of the key things to bear in mind when coming to sell your solicitors practice is to ensure that your company accounts are impeccably maintained for the last 5 years. So many law firms, it seems, do not have good quality accounts to produce to any prospective buyers, which means that when buyers come…
Reading Time: 2 minutesAdvice This is a competency based interview question and should be one that you are able to put forward a positive strength and experience that relate specifically to the post you are applying for. so for example if one of the requirements of the post you are going for is that you have experience handling…
Reading Time: 2 minutesAdvice Another particularly difficult competency based question which will almost inevitably result in you needing to have an example in your head before you go into the interview that you are able to use. Without having something pre-prepared it is almost impossible to think about something that quickly when asked these types of questions, which…
Reading Time: 2 minutesLegal Recruitment – still an uncertain market Each month we run a comparison between the last calendar month and the same time period in 2018 to see if there has been any noticeable difference in view of the extreme political uncertainty. In August 2019 we saw a 38% fall in the number of new permanent…
Reading Time: 3 minutesGood afternoon – 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: 4 minutesGood afternoon – 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: 2 minutesThis is often a question asked by fairly elderly or semi-retired solicitors who approach our legal recruitment consultancy Ten Percent Legal Recruitment. They have probably worked in the same job for the last 30 years and know just about everything there is to know about the work they do. This is invariably conveyancing or family…
Reading Time: 5 minutesNew Locum Lawyers CAN-24192 30 year PQE solicitor dealing with residential conveyancing and wills & probate work. Looking for locum posts in South Wales, Lancashire or West Yorkshire. CAN-3895 Experienced non-qualified conveyancer available to cover locum posts across the UK. Regular professional locum – mainly residential and some commercial. CAN-29622 Brighton 6 year PQE private…
Reading Time: 2 minutesAdvice A very difficult question indeed. Firstly because if you have ever had a disagreement with your superior it clearly indicates that you are someone who maybe a little awkward at work. Not only that but you are introducing a negative into the interview process which is not recommended. However if you don’t answer the…
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe have recently reintroduced our popular CV review service. We review CVs free of charge if you consent to us posting your CV and our comments live onto the website as a blog article (we remove your contact details of course). You can also pay for the service – details here: https://ten-percent.co.uk/cv-advice-and-reviews/ You can also…
Reading Time: 3 minutesA couple of job offers recently have ended up in a stalemate situation between the employers and the employees. The employees have asked for a higher salary and the employers have taken umbrage at the fact the employees have asked the question. Here are our top 10 pieces of advice when considering negotiating on salary…
Reading Time: 3 minutesLegal Recruitment – still an uncertain market Each month we run a comparison between the last calendar month and the same time period in 2018 to see if there has been any noticeable difference in view of the extreme political uncertainty. In June 2019 we saw a huge increase of 77% in new permanent vacancies…
Reading Time: 3 minutesNew Locum Lawyers CAN-29595 Lincoln Highly experienced, semi-retired solicitor who spent career specialising in Residential Conveyancing, Wills and Probate and Powers of Attorney work available for locum work in the Lincolnshire area. CAN-29603 25 year PQE Family and Child Care Law Solicitor, specialisiing in prviately funded work. Available for part-time locum work in the Sussex…
Reading Time: 4 minutesNew Locum Lawyers CAN-29577 Truro 30 year PQE Personal Injury Solicitor available for locum work in the South West of England region. Covers all aspects of PI work. CAN-29584 Maidstone Personal Injury FILEX with over 20 years’ experience, available for locum work in the Kent and South East region. CAN-29580 East London In-house Corporate Commercial…
Reading Time: 4 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: 2 minutesNew Locum Lawyers CAN-29524 Harrow Residential Conveyancing FILEX with over 20 years’ experience available for locum work in the Greater London area. CAN-29526 Oxford Private client fee earner working as a locum for over 15 years. Looking for contract posts in the UK. CAN-29527 Bristol Conveyancing Locum available for work in and around Bristol and…
Reading Time: 3 minutesNew Locum Lawyers CAN-20213 25 year PQE Senior Personal Injury solicitor dealing mainly with claimant work – RTA, PL, clinical negligence and catastrophic injuries. Looking for a post in Surrey, Kent, Hampshire or London. CAN-24938 9 year PQE Property Solicitor with experience in commercial and residential property. Looking for locum property posts in the Greater…
Reading Time: 4 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: 4 minutesNew Locum Lawyers CAN-29431 West London Employment and Education Solicitor with city background looking for locum and permanent roles around London. 15 years PQE. CAN-29434 Kirkcaldy 8 years PQE English and Scottish Solicitor & Notary Public available for locum commercial property work in the Edinburgh area and surrounds. CAN-29435 North London 15 year PQE Family…
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor years we have very patiently advised clients contacting us to request solicitors with a following, ie the ability to bring their own work and files to a new firm, that there is the small matter of a Restrictive Covenant ever present in most contracts of employment. As anyone knows, you cannot simply walk out…
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAdvice This question is one of the easiest to give a response to and does not appear to carry any risks at all with the response. Quite obviously you do need to indicate that you are willing to travel as if this was not part of the job then presumably the employer would not have…
Reading Time: 2 minutesAdvice This question is often asked where an interviewer has identified that you have a specific weak point on your CV, for example you have a low grade at A Level or have a Third Class Degree. The question is designed to pick you up on whether you respond negatively or positively to this question.…
Reading Time: 3 minutesLegal Recruitment – still an uncertain market Each month we run a comparison between the last calendar month and the same time period in 2018 to see if there has been any noticeable difference in view of the extreme political uncertainty. In May 2019 we saw a 42% decrease in the number of new permanent…
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 10,000 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: 3 minutesNew Permanent Candidates CAN-29389 Northampton Senior Residential Conveyancer looking for a suitable role in the Northampton area. CAN-29404 Cardiff 15 years PQE personal injury solicitor looking for a suitable role in the South Wales area. CAN-29405 Derby 6 months PQE residential conveyancing solicitor with previous 2+ years experience in conveyancing as a paralegal prior to…
Reading Time: 3 minutesPlease find below a list of lawyers registered with Ten Percent Legal in the past 7 days. We have over 10,000 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.…
Reading Time: 5 minutesPlease find below a list of lawyers registered with Ten Percent Legal in the past 7 days. We have over 10,000 solicitors on our database. Unable to find a suitable candidate in the list below? Drop us an email over or give us a call and we would be glad to assist. CAN-29330 London 1.5…
Reading Time: 4 minutesThis is one of the number one questions asked by clients who instruct Ten Percent Legal to seek a buyer for their law firm or accountancy practice. If I retire what can I get for my business and by implication how long have I got before I run out of money once I have retired?…
Reading Time: 2 minutesAdvice A fairly straight forward question in most circumstances as it is easy to give a fairly noncommittal response. Very often the question is asked of people who live in different areas to the company they have applied to or alternatively live a fair distance from the company but still potentially commutable in the short…
Reading Time: 2 minutesQuestion 21 – Describe a situation when you had to communicate a message to someone knowing that you were right and they were wrong and reluctant to accept your point of view. Advice This type of competency based interview question is more difficult because you need to think of a situation when there has been…