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…
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAdvice This is another question where you need to have a stock of answers ready to be tailored according to the particular question that is put to you. This one gives you the chance to demonstrate something of quality that pushes your case with the company in relation to the role you are applying for…
Reading Time: 2 minutesHow to change your CV and improve it dramatically with this simple hack. Simply change your profile at the top of your CV so that is actually reflects who you are and not the usual nonsense that 90% of CVs seem to contain. By this I mean including factual information rather than a load of…
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 November we saw a 40% decrease in the number of new permanent vacancies and a 28% decrease in the number of locum…
Reading Time: 3 minutesNew Locum Lawyers NB: Conveyancing & Private Client cover – good availability at present. CAN-29887 Twickenham 15 year PQE Wills & Probate Solicitor, available for locum work in the Greater London region. CAN-29889 Chelmsford 3 year PQE property solicitor available for locum work in Essex and Greater London. Residential and commercial property work covered. CAN-29890…
Reading Time: 4 minutesNew Locum Lawyers Conveyancing & Private Client Locums – we have a range of locums available to assist across the UK. Good availability at present. CAN-29865 Gloucester Residential Conveyancing Legal Executive with around 7 years experience and CQS accreditation. Available for locum work in the Gloucester area and surrounds. CAN-29852 Llandudno 25 year PQE Property…
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Reading Time: 2 minutesWe do see some gems of interview questions coming our way, and this one is our favourite at the moment. Are you the type of person to cry if someone shouts at you? What a question, and perhaps the person asking it was really testing the interviewee to see how they would respond. Would the…
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAdvice This is a negative question and one that wherever possible should be avoided. It does not matter how you answer the question, the answer you give will have to result in you providing the interviewer with evidence of a negative point. Wit this in mind it is worth trying to avoid answering the question…
Reading Time: 2 minutesAdvice This question is quite an easy one, but it is important not to fall into the trap of giving a general answer instead of a specific one. The question has asked you to describe a time, not a circumstance that you regularly find yourself in. Try to think of a specific occasion when you…
Reading Time: 4 minutesLegal Job Market Report Legal Recruitment – busy 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 October we saw a 32% increase in the number of new permanent vacancies and a 145% increase in…
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: 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.…
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: 3 minutesToday we had an email from a law firm who owe us a reasonable amount of money and following a letter before action we received a detailed response from one of the directors at the solicitors firm explaining his understanding of the fee and how it should be paid. Part of this explanation and discussion…
Reading Time: 2 minutesAdvice This is a competency based interview question which again if you do not practice interview questions it is very unlikely you would be able to think of an answer on the spur of the moment. This needs to be one of the selection of scenarios you have stored in your head ready to use…
Reading Time: 2 minutesAdvice This is a completely open question and one that everyone attending an interview should have a stock answer ready to use. Team questions are almost always best answered using a work environment and anyone who has worked in any capacity is able to give a situation or example. If you have not yet worked…
Reading Time: 2 minutesLegal Recruitment – busy 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 September 2019 we saw a 22% fall in the number of new permanent vacancies. We…
Reading Time: 4 minutesNew Locum Lawyers CAN-29765 Reading 6 years PQE Residential Conveyancing Solicitor available for locum work in the Berkshire area and surrounds. CAN-29767 Sheffield 9 year PQE Litigation Solicitor available for part-time locum work in the East Midlands and South or West Yorkshire areas. Civil lit, commercial lit and personal injury all covered. CAN-29773 Leicester 12…
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 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…
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe get a number of smaller firms and indeed some larger ones looking for new solicitors at a fairly experienced level. Quite often they will indicate an opinion that they wouldn’t expect a solicitor with more than 5 years’ experience not to have their own following of clients. Sometimes they give figures as to what…
Reading Time: 3 minutesI recently took a call from a solicitors firm in the Leicestershire area looking for a new residential conveyancer to join their firm. They are a small high street practice and we have had dealings with them on numerous occasions over the years to assist with recruitment into their property team. We had the usual…
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…