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. 13111749 Wills & Probate Solicitor with c4 years PQE looking for a part time roles ongoing – locum – 3-4 days per week. £30 per…
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. CAN-27150 30 year PQE Private Client solicitor specialising in wills, estate & trust administration. STEP membership. Looking for a post in and around Shropshire, Staffordshire,…
Reading Time: 2 minutesRates have now decreased slightly as we get closer to Christmas – we expect them to go down further still. Up to £35 per hour in Conveyancing is still the norm for most locums, although a good proportion are dropping to £28-32 per hour to get the assignments. November 2017 Locum Rates : Residential Conveyancing…
Reading Time: 2 minutesQ: I wonder if you have any advice or comment on the following. a sole practitioner has been asked by a lender panel to give details of a locum who the principal would have on call if the worst happened and the firm was left without a solicitor at short notice. Do you have any…
Reading Time: 2 minutesA recent law graduate has asked an extremely pertinent question regarding future career plans: “In your professional opinion, how much do sole practitioners (on the high street working in family/conveyancing) tend to make annually? Also more generally, would you say, despite the over supply of law graduates and the SRA’s soon to be new route…
Reading Time: 2 minutesSummary October has been a quiet month again, which is fairly normal but the legal job market seems very subdued at the moment. We are active in both legal & accountancy recruitment and accountancy is currently booming so quite a contrast! Locum assignments have dropped (as is usual for this time of year) and permanent…
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. 18101526 Locum Conveyancing Executive available for roles between Cardiff and London (M4 corridor etc..). 10 years experience. 22101156 Commercial Property Solicitor available for cover from…
Reading Time: 3 minutesNew Permanent Solicitors and ILEX CAN-27090 Residential and Commercial Conveyancing Solicitor (75/25 split) with own client following. Following estimated at c£150-180k, salary sought of £40k plus good bonus scheme. Looking for a firm in London or Essex – must be CQS and on all major panels. Salaried roles only. British Virgin Islands – opportunity to…
Reading Time: 2 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 graduated from university with a 1st class…
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Legal Profession, Flexible Hours and Working from Home Many years ago, when I started out in law, flexible hours were something women benefited from when they had given birth and returned to work for a few years. Otherwise hours were strictly 9am to 5pm with an hour for lunch. These days however law firms…
Reading Time: 2 minutesDangling the carrot of a partnership when being offered a job or at an annual review is either because: 1. The firm genuinely like you, are genuinely nice and genuinely see a long term future for you at the practice. Partnership is a good way of cementing your relationship and committing you to the business…
Reading Time: 2 minutesHourly Rates of Pay for Locum Solicitors and Legal Executives Rates have now decreased slightly as we get closer to Christmas – we expect them to go down further still. Up to £35 per hour in Conveyancing is still the norm for most locums, although a good proportion are dropping to £30-32 per hour to…
Reading Time: 3 minutesLegal Job Market Report Key points from 2nd September to 4th October 2017 are as follows: ▪ Permanent recruitment has increased. ▪ Locum recruitment has decreased. Hourly rates have decreased in line with the seasonal norm. ▪ Commercial and In House roles have picked up. ▪ Wills and Probate is quieter but locum and permanent…
Reading Time: 4 minutesNew Permanent Solicitors and ILEX CAN-27090 Residential and Commercial Conveyancing Solicitor (75/25 split) with own client following. 15 years PQE. Has a substantial following located in East London and looking for a firm in London or Essex to join. Outstanding and consistent fee generation throughout career to date. Salaried roles only – reasonable salary plus…
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. Ref 26091518 Conveyancing ILEX Locum available for roles in October and November. Residential specialist – can cover from partner level downwards. Ref 26091319 Family Solicitor…
Reading Time: 4 minutesGood morning. Please find below a list of new locum and permanent candidates registered with us in the past 7 days. We have 10,500+ solicitors and legal executives on our database and we recruit at all levels from partners to legal cashiers for commercial and high street firms. click here to register vacancies online, email…
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. CAN-27029 10 year PQE Private Client Solicitor dealing with all aspects of wills & probate work, estate planning, POA and COP matters. Looking for locum…
Reading Time: 2 minutesAsk a Recruitment Consultant – questions this month on our chat bot Questions sent to us via our new 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! Hello – can you find me a job?…
Reading Time: 2 minutes1. Review your CV. If an agent has sent it, ask them for a copy. We amend CVs nearly every time we send one out – mainly to remove any waffly bits or to present them in a better light. Get a copy, read it carefully. Remind yourself of anything you may have written 10…
Reading Time: 2 minutesHourly Rates of Pay for Locum Solicitors and Legal Executives Although conveyancing rates increased over the last four weeks, we will now see a drop in hourly rates as we get closer to Christmas. September tends to remain fairly high as demand has traditionally still been strong. £35 per hour in Conveyancing is still the…
Reading Time: 3 minutesKey points from 13th July to 6th September 2017 are as follows: ▪ Permanent recruitment has decreased. ▪ Locum recruitment has increased. Hourly rates have increased over the summer but will now decline. ▪ Commercial and In House roles have picked up. ▪ Wills and Probate is quieter but locum and permanent candidates remain very…
Reading Time: 5 minutesNew Locum Solicitors & ILEX – from £25 per hour CAN-26937 8 year PQE Commercial Solicitor dealing with a full range of company commercial matters, commercial litigation and IP. Looking for locum posts in the South of England. CAN-26973 15 year PQE Family Solicitor with family law panel (advanced) membership and experienced in both publicly…
Reading Time: 4 minutesNew Locum Solicitors & ILEX – from £25 per hour 08081624 US and UK qualified Corporate Commercial Locum Solicitor – extensive private practice commercial contracts experience in IT sector, venture capital investments, land deals and finance sector. Available for locum roles. CAN-26872 5+ year PQE Wills & Probate solicitor available for locum assignments in the…
Reading Time: 2 minutesAsk a Recruitment Consultant – questions this month on our chat bot Questions sent to us via our new 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! Our New Chatbot Hi. My Australian degree has…
Reading Time: 2 minutesThinking of Retraining in Wills & Probate after years out of the profession and coming from a Commercial background. Is it possible? We have recently received a request for advice from a solicitor coming from a Legal 500 commercial background and after over 10 years out now seeking to return to the profession but not…
Reading Time: 2 minutesJuly 2017 – Hourly Rates Update for Legal Locums in the UK Conveyancing rates have shot up over the last four weeks, as we enter the busy period. Conveyancing locums looking at £35 an hour and above are now finding firms giving them the go ahead, whereas a few months ago they would have been…
Reading Time: 3 minutesLegal Job Market Report Key points from 7th June to 12th July 2017 are as follows: ▪ Permanent recruitment has increased. ▪ Locum recruitment has drastically increased. Hourly rates have inevitably increased! ▪ Commercial and In House roles are picking up slightly. ▪ Wills and Probate is quieter but locum and…
Reading Time: 2 minutesFirms for Sale/Purchase: Ref 27061248 Offshore Solicitors Firm for Sale – based in similar jurisdiction to England and Wales – with crime, family, commercial and litigation caseload. Senior partner looking to sell or remain as consultant. Barrister/Solicitor can practice. Ref 08061231 Buyer looking to purchase will banks in London and Home Counties. Ref 04071347 Buyer…
Reading Time: 3 minutesNew Locum Solicitors & ILEX – from £18 per hour CAN-26757 Highly experienced Wills & Probate Executive working as a Trusts Manager from 1990 onwards. Managerial experience. Looking for locum posts in London and the South East. CAN-26761 15 years PQE Company Commercial solicitor specialising in working as an in house legal counsel dealing with…
Reading Time: 3 minutesNew Locum Solicitors & ILEX – from £18 per hour CAN-26746 Fairly junior locum (2015 qualified) Private Client Solicitor dealing with wills & probate and POA/LPA matters. Looking for locum posts ideally in the Midlands. Hourly rate £35 p h. CAN-26734 Legal Executive specialising in commercial property law with private practice and local authority experience.…