Ten Percent Legal Recruitment

in Candidates, London and South, Regions

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…

Continue Reading
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…

Continue Reading
in Candidates, London and South, Regions

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…

Continue Reading
in Careers Advice, Employers, Legal Profession

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…

Continue Reading
in Candidates, London and South, Regions

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.…

Continue Reading
in Candidates, London and South, Regions

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…

Continue Reading
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…

Continue Reading
in Candidates, London and South, Regions

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…

Continue Reading
in Candidates, London and South, Regions

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 &…

Continue Reading
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…

Continue Reading
in Careers Advice, Changing Jobs, Employers, Job Applications

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…

Continue Reading
in Candidates, London and South, Regions

New Candidate Update 20th November 2017

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,…

Continue Reading
in Careers Advice, Changing Jobs, Employers, Legal Profession, Training Contracts, Pupillage and Work Experience

Questions for our Recruitment Consultants

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…

Continue Reading
Sole Practitioners - how much do they earn?
in Careers Advice, Employers, Legal Profession, Salary Reviews

How much do Sole Practitioners Earn?

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…

Continue Reading
in Candidates, London and South, Regions

Candidate Update 26th October 2017 – TP Legal and Interim Lawyers

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…

Continue Reading
in Candidates, London and South, Regions

Candidate Update 24th October 2017 – Solicitors, ILEX, Locum, Permanent, Legal Secretaries, Paralegals, Law Firms for Sale

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…

Continue Reading