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…
Reading Time: 2 minutesEach 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 April we saw a 50% decrease in the number of new permanent vacancies compared with the previous year. How was…
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you are a South African qualified lawyer who has decided to come to the UK to experience our high quality weather, our stable political system and our well functioning courts, congratulations! You may have spent 20 years practising in a good quality South African law firm undertaking high quality legal cases and you may…
Reading Time: 4 minutesWe have written about this before some years ago, but it seems that there are solicitors firms out there who are trying to rip off duty solicitors and this is advice on how not to get scammed by crime firms recruiting duty solicitors. It seems that there are a couple of firms in England who…
Reading Time: 3 minutesNew Permanent Candidates CAN-29245 20 year PQE property solicitor dealing with a mix of residential and commercial property work including new builds and high net worth matters. Looking for permanent roles in central London. CAN-27615 2 year PQE residential conveyancing solicitor looking for locum assignments or permanent role in the Surrey region and surrounds. CAN-29287…
Reading Time: 4 minutesGood morning. Please find below a list of solicitors registered with Ten Percent Legal in the past 7 days. New Permanent Candidates CAN-29260 South East London 5 year PQE Solicitor specialising in family law, civil litigation and immigration looking for a suitable role in South East London or Kent. CAN-29261 Southall 2 year PQE Solicitor…
Reading Time: 3 minutesPlease find below a list of solicitors registered with Ten Percent Legal in the past 14 days. Planning to recruit in 2019? Visit www.tenpercentunlimited.co.uk for our money-saving recruitment service. New Permanent Candidates CAN-29236 Kingston 25 year PQE Clinical Negligence and Catastrophic Injury Solicitor looking for a suitable role in Kent and London. CAN-29239 Bromley 1…
Reading Time: 2 minutesAdvice This is the classic competency based interview question that gets asked time and time again in some form or another. It does not matter who you are and what your circumstances, there must have always been a time when you were a member of a team and you are able to give this information…
Reading Time: 2 minutesAdvice This is another relatively easy question because if you have prepared your approach to interview effectively you should have a number of examples that will cover this question already stored in your mind. It is a good time to get over the point that you are a team player who contributes effectively to a…
Reading Time: 3 minutesEach 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 April 2019 we saw an decrease of 51% in new permanent vacancies compared with April 2018. We also saw a…
Reading Time: 4 minutesThere are a lot of different terms used for the work of a childcare solicitor. You will often see them described as solicitors with care proceedings experience, solicitors who do publicly funded family law work (just about the only thing left now that is publicly funded is care work), social services family lawyer, local authority…