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…
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…