Reading Time: 3 minutesLocums – avoiding bad firms and bad locums Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment handles both permanent and locum vacancies. We assist with locum assignments via our website www.interimlawyers.co.uk. Every locum we arrange work for is checked out and we get proof of ID, proof of residence, copies of practising certificates and attempt to get two references on…
Reading Time: 4 minutesLegal Job Market Update – September 6th 2016 The legal job market has been very interesting indeed over the last 8 weeks (our last report was on July 6th). Brexit, the Olympics, the Euro 2016 tournament and lots of annual leave for everyone has had an impact on recruitment. What changes have we seen since…
Reading Time: 4 minutesWe had a request in for legal careers advice from an LPC graduate who has been offered a training contract in a smaller sized law firm somewhere in the UK who do a lot of family law (plus other areas). His questions are as follows: I am unsure whether to take the training contract or…
Reading Time: 3 minutesNew Permanent Fee Earner Candidates 24080824 Wills & Probate Solicitor relocating to North Devon. 5 years PQE. Permanent. 22081053 Immigration Solicitor NQ looking for corporate immigration posts in central London zone 1. Permanent. £30k salary. 18081317 General Practice Solicitor with extensive experience in Litigation – property, employment and PI, contentious probate, looking around Central and…
Reading Time: 4 minutesCandidates registered with the Ten-Percent Group of Legal Recruitment websites in the 7 days to 18th August 2016. New Permanent Fee Earner Candidates CAN-26004 10 year PQE Barrister and legal consultant/legal counsel specialising in company commercial, corporate finance, corporate insolvency and compliance. Looking for a salaried post in London either in house or private practice.…
Reading Time: 8 minutesNew Permanent Fee Earner Candidates for 5th August 2016 London and South CAN-25934 15 year PQE personal injury solicitor looking for permanent or locum roles in the Kent region. CAN-25871 Nov 2016 qualified family solicitor with over 3 years pre-trainee experience. Looking for family posts in North West and Central London or Hertfordshire. CAN-25930 2…
Reading Time: 2 minutesCandidates New Candidates Registered in the last 14 days. CAN-25847 Legal secretary with experience in both residential conveyancing and commercial property, looking for a suitable role in the Greater London region. CAN-25874 NQ qualified solicitor with experience in crime and immigration. Looking for a post in London or other major cities in the UK. CAN-25849…
Reading Time: 4 minutesLegal Job Market Update from Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment – post Brexit – July 6th June 2016. What a month. I suspect it will always be remembered as the month when something fairly seismic occurred, but quite what this will be is another matter! Will it be remembered as the start of the UK’s exit from…
Reading Time: 4 minutesNew Permanent Fee Earner Candidates CAN-25824 Licensed Conveyancer looking with 10 years experience for residential conveyancing posts in Manchester and surrounding areas. CAN-25818 2016 qualified solicitor with experience in civil litigation, residential conveyancing, landlord & tenant and probate. Looking for a post in London. CAN-25823 15 year PQE crime solicitor with duty status, looking for…
Reading Time: 4 minutesNew Permanent Fee Earner Candidates 13062238 Employment Solicitor available – 5 years PQE. Experience in business development. London. 12062033 Residential and Commercial Conveyancing Solicitor looking for work in East and Central London. NQ. 12062107 Legal Cashier and Practice Manager looking for work in and around East Midlands. 12061232 c1 year PQE Litigation Solicitor – general…
Reading Time: 2 minutesHourly Rates of Pay for Locum Solicitors and Legal Executives Locum hourly rate payment varies widely according to the demand, length of assignment, level of experience and advance notice available. NB: These rates are intended as a guide only. Hourly rates can vary according to the location, duration and level of expertise. June 2016 Private…
Reading Time: 4 minutesCandidates New Candidates Registered in the last 14 days. London CAN-25729 2016 qualified solicitor specialising in family and child care law with further experience in conveyancing and private client matters. Looking for family posts in London due to relocation. CAN-25750 2016 qualifier with experience gained as a property paralegal prior to qualification and training contract…
Reading Time: 3 minutesNewly Qualified Solicitors – 10 tips on recruitment It is the time of year when NQ solicitors start to wonder what they need to do to find work on qualification if they do not remain with their existing firm. Here is our brief guide – you can read the full article at https://ten-percent.co.uk/newly-qualified-solicitors/ 1. As…
Reading Time: 2 minutesSalary reviews – how not to approach them – a guide for employers/partners Here are our top tips for salary reviews and avoiding any increases in salary. 1. Repeatedly postpone or cancel the salary review for up to 6 months. Top tip. 2. During the salary review continue to work whilst occasionally glancing up and…
Reading Time: 2 minutesAdvertising – just because everyone else does. Surely they can’t all be wrong? We have spent the last year advertising on a job board specialising in the legal sector. I don’t want to name them as that is not the purpose of this article, but they are totally immersed in the legal sector if that…
Reading Time: 3 minutesLegal Job Market Update – June 9th 2016 May was, as ever, a busy month. Despite the concerns about the property market dropping off after the changes to Stamp Duty the demand for property lawyers has continued across the board. Newly Qualified Solicitors with training contracts finishing this summer are starting to register en masse…
Reading Time: 4 minutesNew Permanent Fee Earner Candidates 23051346 Residential Conveyancing Solicitor with 10 years PQE looking in Ipswich and surrounds for work. 25723 Sept 2016 qualified solicitor looking for a wills & probate posts in Bucks, Oxon and Bedfordshire. 25050833 Wills & Probate Solicitor available for locum and permanent work around London. 25741 Legal consultant specialising in…
Reading Time: 3 minutesNew Candidates registered with the Ten-Percent Group dated May 18th 2016. New Permanent Fee Earner Candidates 11050927 10 year PQE Residential Conveyancing Solicitor looking for a new PT role in London. 16050917 Residential and Commercial Property Solicitor looking in SE, C London and West Kent. 5+ years experience. 15050812 Commercial Property Solicitor – currently locuming…
Reading Time: 3 minutesNew Candidates Registered in the last 14 days. South CAN-25645 Trainee legal executive/paralegal with experience in both commercial and residential conveyancing. Further experience in civil litigation. Looking for a paralegal post in South East or Central London and Northern Kent. CAN-25651 Legal secretary with experience in litigation and crime. Looking for posts in Central London.…
Reading Time: 2 minutesThere remains a national shortage of conveyancing and commercial property lawyers at all levels. We are finding it harder than usual to recruit locums this year, although we still get CVs in to over 95% of assignments, but the permanent side is very difficult. What is interesting is the trend of firms recruiting new conveyancers…
Reading Time: 3 minutesLegal Job Market Update – May 2016 As usual April was a quiet time for us. It coincides with the joys of the end of the tax year, Easter, school holidays and the run up to May Day Bank Holiday. This year has been busier than usual, not because of any major influx of new…
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe UK’s most expensive Google Adwords In April 2016 Search Engine Watch, a very useful industry online magazine, undertook a study of the UK’s most expensive Google Adwords. These are the adverts at the top of the page when you search any keyword. We have been using the system for over 15 years and it…
Reading Time: 3 minutesNew Permanent Fee Earner Candidates 20041607 General Counsel with track record in company management available for ongoing in house work – part time. Any location considered. 18041109 Wills & Probate Solicitor NQ level looking around London. 17042307 Commercial Contracts Solicitor at NQ level looking in Northants, Bucks, Warks, Coventry, Birmingham. Has commercial property and litigation…
Reading Time: 2 minutesNew Candidates Registered in the last 7 days. CAN-25576 Law graduate and residential conveyancing paralegal with further document review experience. Looking for a post in London. Speaks Turkish. CAN-25577 July 2017 qualified solicitor with experience in residential conveyancing, family and commercial law. Previous 3 years conveyancing experience prior to training contract. Looking for a post…
Reading Time: 2 minutesInterview Survival Tips Top tips for surviving legal job interviews: 1. Do not exaggerate your abilities. We have recently had a conveyancing candidate claim she could run files from start to finish and work independently. The solicitors firm in question arranged a full test to check this and discovered that actually this was definitely not…
Reading Time: 3 minutesLegal Job Market Update – April 2016 March has been a busy month in part, but the Easter break has had an effect as ever on recruitment. It is always interesting how every Easter firms leave locum recruitment until the last minute and then start hunting for cover on Maundy Thursday! Most locums have the…
Reading Time: 3 minutesNew Permanent Fee Earner Candidates CAN-25543 1990 qualified personal injury solicitor with expertise in defendant and claimant work looking for a suitable role in the South Wales area. Significant managerial exposure and experience dealing with high value work. CAN-25525 January 2016 qualified solicitor with experience in immigration, residential and commercial property, family law and civil…
Reading Time: 2 minutesNew Permanent Fee Earner Candidates CAN-25510 2001 qualified FILEX legal executive specialising in claimant personal injury (RTA, PL, EL). Looking for a post in Hertfordshire, North, West or Central London. CAN-25509 2009 qualified family law solicitor dealing with family/matrimonial, children and care matters. Looking for a post in Lancashire and the North West. CAN-25519 2012…
Reading Time: 2 minutesNew Candidates New Candidates Registered in the last 7 days. CAN-25473 Experienced legal cashier looking for a suitable post in the Greater London region. CAN-25476 February 2005 qualified FILEX legal executive specialising in residential conveyancing. Looking for locum roles in Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and the East Midlands. CAN-25477 2004 qualified family law solicitor and family law…
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAgency accused of inventing staff A legal recruitment agency, Dawn Ellmore Employment (never heard of them) has been caught by RollonFriday.com inventing staff – full report at http://www.rollonfriday.com/TheNews/EuropeNews/tabid/58/Id/4434/fromTab/36/currentIndex/0/Default.aspx This has attracted lots of comments from disgruntled lawyers about agencies faking their identities, making up staff and qualifications and pretending that they are much bigger than…