Ten Percent Legal Recruitment

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Extracting yourself from your Law Firm – advice for partners and directors

Reading Time: 3 minutesExtracting yourself from the business We are involved in the buying and selling of solicitors’ firms and accountancy practices across the UK and further afield. Sellers can be anybody from a sole practitioner through to a very large partnership or company, but the usual aim of owners selling up is to get out of the…

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New Candidates registering 23rd May 2018

Reading Time: 3 minutesNew Locum Solicitors & ILEX – from £25 per hour Contact InterimLawyers.co.uk with your requirements (we have over 700 active locums registered with us covering the UK – CVs usually sent within 60 mins). CAN-27469 2 year PQE Property Solicitor, available for locum assignments in the Greater London region. Residential and commercial property work covered.…

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Locum Hourly Rates May 2018

Reading Time: 2 minutesHourly Rates of Pay for Locum Solicitors and Legal Executives Rates are now starting to go up as we approach the summer. Up to £35 per hour in Conveyancing is still the norm for most locums, although the current competitive level for longer term assignments is £30. Very rare to see locums working for less…

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Solicitor and Legal Executive Update dated 16th May 2018

Reading Time: 3 minutesNew Locum Solicitors & ILEX – from £25 per hour Contact InterimLawyers.co.uk with your requirements (we have over 700 active locums registered with us covering the UK – CVs usually sent within 60 mins). Looking for summer 2018 annual leave cover? Book now. CAN-27458 13 year PQE Company Commercial and Commercial Property Solicitor available for…

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New Candidate Update – Permanent and Locum Solicitors – 25th April 2018

Reading Time: 3 minutesNew Locum Solicitors & ILEX – from £25 per hour Contact InterimLawyers.co.uk with your requirements (we have over 700 active locums registered with us covering the UK – CVs usually sent within 60 mins). Looking for summer 2018 annual leave cover? Book now. CAN-27412 30 years PQE qualified Commercial Property Solicitor looking for locum posts…

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Candidate Update 18th April 2018 TP Legal Recruitment and Interim Lawyers

Reading Time: 3 minutesNew Locum Solicitors & ILEX – from £25 per hour Contact InterimLawyers.co.uk with your requirements (we have over 700 active locums registered with us covering the UK – CVs usually sent within 60 mins). Looking for summer 2018 annual leave cover? Book now. 17041438 Wills & Probate Locum Solicitor available for roles on 2 days…

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Legal Aid Agency
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New LAA Contract Awards for Family, Mental Health etc. – how not to recruit Supervisors for new contract awards

Reading Time: 2 minutesToday is the day when the LAA have issued a whole new load of contract awards after recent tenders by law firms across the UK. So far we have had telephone calls from law firms asking about Family Law Supervisors and Mental Health Law Supervisors. Any more? I can’t remember if Housing or Immigration are…

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New Candidate Update 21st March 2018 UK – London, South East, Midlands, North West and further afield

Reading Time: 3 minutesNew Locum Solicitors & ILEX – from £25 per hour Contact us with your requirements (we have over 700 active locums registered with us covering the UK – CVs sent within 60 mins). CAN-27357 Residential and Commercial Property Solicitor with 30 years experience, looking for locum residential conveyancing posts in the Midlands. 14031059 Conveyancing Executive…

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in Careers Advice, Legal Profession, Training Contracts, Pupillage and Work Experience

Ask a Recruitment Consultant – questions to our chatbot

Reading Time: 3 minutesAsk a Recruitment Consultant – questions this month on our chat bot Questions sent to us via our Chat service online, together with general career questions emailed across. We do our best to answer all queries, sometimes after a fairly lengthy delay if we are busy! Q: I am currently studying to become a solicitor…

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New Candidates Registering 15th March 2018 with TP Legal Recruitment and Interim Lawyers

Reading Time: 4 minutesNew Permanent Solicitors and ILEX Ref 12031221 Associate Private Equity Solicitor with 7 years PQE specialising in advising private equity sponsors on mergers and acquisitions, management equity plans and corporate restructurings. London. CAN-27321 2 year PQE Conveyancing Solicitor dealing with residential property including New Builds and some commercial property. Looking for a post in London…

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IR35 and Local Authority Contractors – are we heading towards the same regime for Private Practice?

Reading Time: 2 minutesMinutes from HMRC’s latest IR35 forum indicate that similar reform could hit the private sector soon. This could be a worry to a good number of law firms who regularly use locums. Our own thoughts on it are that provided the contractual position is clear and the locum is a senior lawyer who is able…

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New Locum and Permanent Candidates from TP Legal Recruitment and Interim Lawyers 1st March 2018

Reading Time: 4 minutesNew Locum Solicitors & ILEX – from £25 per hour NB: Plenty of locum availability at the moment for conveyancing and wills & probate assignments. Contact us with your requirements (we have over 500 active locums registered with us). Spring and Summer 2018 bookings being taken now. 16020918 Conveyancing Locum Solicitor – 25 years PQE.…

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Candidate Update 14th February 2018 from TP Legal Recruitment and Interim Lawyers

Reading Time: 3 minutesFocus on Law Firms for Sale 15111344 Well established high street general practice law firm with 2 offices in Middlesex/NW London looking to sell or merge due to retirement of partners. The practice undertakes family work (including care proceedings), conveyancing and probate. 40% family and children work, 20% conveyancing and 35% private client. Longstanding leasehold…

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Discrimination in Legal Recruitment
in Careers Advice, Changing Jobs, Employers, Legal Profession

Discrimination in Recruitment – is it rife?

Reading Time: 3 minutesI write this article from a personal perspective and it is an expression of opinion only. I often get asked by candidates if they think firms discriminate against them and this article is about our experiences of behaviour that is both overt and implied. Discrimination against Law Firms Law firms often think that as recruiters…

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New Solicitors and Legal Executives February 2nd 2018

Reading Time: 2 minutesNew Locum Solicitors & ILEX – from £25 per hour NB: Plenty of locum availability at the moment for conveyancing and wills & probate assignments. Contact us with your requirements (we have over 500 active locums registered with us). Spring and Summer 2018 bookings being taken now. CAN-27240 20 year PQE Solicitor dealing with private…

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New Candidate Update 24th January 2018 – Solicitors, ILEX, costs draftspeople

Reading Time: 3 minutesNew Locum Solicitors & ILEX – from £25 per hour NB: Plenty of locum availability at the moment for conveyancing and wills & probate assignments. Contact us with your requirements (we have over 500 active locums registered with us). Spring and Summer 2018 bookings being taken now. 22011041 20 year PQE Family and Wills &…

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in Careers Advice, Employers, Legal Profession, Training Contracts, Pupillage and Work Experience

Paralegals are more likely not to turn up for Job Interviews than any other staff. Why?

Reading Time: 2 minutesOut of 5 job interviews arranged for paralegals and junior fee earners, we estimate that 1 candidate will not turn up. For solicitors and legal executives we think the figure is closer to 1 in 20. Why? Here are our top reasons. 1. It is much easier to apply for a job than it is…

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Restrictive Covenants – do they put employees off?

Reading Time: 2 minutesWe have recently introduced a candidate to an employer where a restrictive covenant was used which must surely fall foul of rather a lot of employment regulations! The role is a fairly junior fee earner position and not senior management or director level. The restrictive covenant was actually called a “non-compete clause” and included the…

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