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Legal Job Market Update 13th September 2018

Reading Time: 2 minutesTo read Legal Recruitment News for September 2018 please click here: http://www.legal-recruitment.co.uk/september-2018-legal-recruitment-news/ Summary In recent months there has been a lot of political uncertainty and we were curious to see whether this had been reflected in the legal job market. So this month we have undertaken a comparison with the same time period last year…

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New Candidate Update 9th September 2018 – Solicitors from TP Legal

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-27687 5 year PQE Property Solicitor available for locum assignments in Greater London and Kent region. Residential and commercial work covered.…

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New Candidates – Solicitors and Legal Executives – from TP Legal 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). CAN 27127 30 year PQE Private Client Solicitor dealing with wills & probate, LPA, COP and elderly client matters. Further residential…

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Candidate Update 1st August 2018 – Solicitors and Legal Executives

Reading Time: 2 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-27626 15 year PQE Property and Commercial Solicitor available for locum assignments nationwide but ideally in Yorkshire and the North of…

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Candidate Update – 25th July 2018 – Solicitors and Legal Executives

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). 24072049 Legal Cashier available for part time locum roles around London. Ongoing contracts considered also. 25071027 Commercial Contracts, Compliance and General…

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Candidate Update – Solicitors and others – July 20th 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-27552 8 year PQE Property Solicitor available for locum assignments in the Cheshire and Greater Manchester region. Residential and commercial work…

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Conveyancing Secretary, Canvey Island

Reading Time: < 1 minuteA well-established South Essex solicitors firm based on Canvey Island within easy travel of Southend-on-Sea, require an experienced and reliable legal secretary to assist the fee earner with residential conveyancing matters. The firm are looking for candidates with previous conveyancing experience who want to develop a long term career with the firm. The firm uses…

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

Can A Level grades affect your Legal Career forever?

Reading Time: 2 minutesWe have had a query this week from a Year 13 student awaiting A level grades – can poor A Level Results affect any chances of a legal career? The quick and honest answer, and something perhaps relevant to qualified solicitors with many years PQE even, and an answer you will rarely hear from HR…

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in Careers Advice, CV Writing

CV Review for Paralegal in South East England

Reading Time: 4 minutesCV Review for a Paralegal – as usual personal data removed. Feedback at the bottom of the CV. Reviewee has consented to this review being published. On these reviews please ignore the layout – this is due to our cut and paste operation! ——————————————————————– CANDIDATE NAME Address: Email: Telephone (Mob): Telephone (Home): EDUCATION  September 2018…

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New Candidate Update 27th June 2018

Reading Time: 2 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-27511 3 year PQE Commercial Property Solicitor, available for locum assignments in the West Midlands. CAN-27497 15 year PQE Conveyancing Solicitor…

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in Careers Advice, Employers, Legal Profession

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
in Careers Advice, Employers, Legal Profession

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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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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