Reading Time: < 1 minuteOh dear – yet again crime solicitors find themselves unable to work out what or where they will be in a years time. Hopefully some certainty will come into play sooner or later and the political see saw will balance in the middle for a while. We understand that the new rota deadline is 12th…
Reading Time: 2 minutesJob Market Report dated 2nd February – also published in the Legal Recruitment News at www.legal-recruitment.co.uk. January 2016 has been a busy month in the sense that it has included a large number of permanent vacancies posted; the usual burst of activity after Christmas. Very often this is caused by the partners at firms having…
Reading Time: 2 minutesNew Permanent Candidates 26010619 Residential Conveyancing Fee Earner (junior) looking at roles within 1 hour of Oakham – Lincs, Leics and Notts. 25012212 Costs Lawyer with over 25 years experience, looking at roles office based in and around London/Essex or nationwide if remote working possible. 26011233 Compliance and Projects Solicitor – private practice and government…
Reading Time: 2 minutesNew Permanent Candidates 16011624 Tax Solicitor from Magic Circle background. 0-1 year PQE level. Looking for permanent roles in smaller sized firm. 14012042 Paralegal relocating to Oxford and looking for regulatory roles in private practice. 13011433 Legal Cashier looking for a new role in and around London. 13011426 Practice Manager available for roles in Brighton…
Reading Time: 3 minutesNew Candidates registering with us in the last 7 days. January 13th 2016 New Permanent Candidates 13010927 Family Solicitor looking for permanent roles in the West Midlands. 3 years PQE. 06011414 Crime Solicitor looking for consultancy role as duty solicitor. 12011216 Residential Conveyancing Solicitor, 10 years PQE. Looking for roles in central London. Permanent full…
Reading Time: 3 minutesLondon Law firm pays NQ Solicitors £100k One of the US law firms in London has now decided to offer NQ solicitors £100k salaries, which is about £22k more than Clifford Chance NQ solicitors get, and about £75k more than most NQ solicitors get on the high street.. The RollonFriday.com website is a very good…
Reading Time: 3 minutesSmallLaw v BigLaw – the differences The US has a slightly different definition of the two types of law firm operating in each jurisdiction. In the UK we call them High Street law and Commercial law firms, although the two overlap a bit. In the USA they term the two types of firm SmallLaw and…
Reading Time: 2 minutesLegal Job Market Update December to January is a difficult time to give a job market update for. Basically just about everyone is off enjoying the festive season and very little happens! Locum requirements were up on previous years and some permanent recruitment occurred, but very little really to give any indication on the state…
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Reading Time: 3 minutesPractice Managers in a solicitor’s firm – who are they and how do you get a job as one? Practice Managers are usually the most senior administrative member of staff in a solicitors’ firm or company. In a lot of firms they are expected to have a considerable and varied amount of experience with tasks…
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhat do umbrella companies do and is there any point using one to do locum work? We have been working with locums in the legal profession for over 10 years now and it seems to be a fairly recent phenomenon that a very small minority of our locums and other locums we’ve come across employ…
Reading Time: 4 minutesLegal Job Market Update November has been a mixed month, with the usual locum assignments ending as work drops off for Christmas and permanent roles increasing. We have started to see the longer term locum roles coming through and some unexpected permanent recruitment – maternity leave cover and departing candidates contributing to this. The demise…
Reading Time: 2 minutesCandidate Update dated 25th November 2015. We have over 11,000 solicitors and legal executives registered with us for permanent & locum vacancies and recruit at all levels including secretaries. Conveyancing locums available nationwide. Solicitors and Legal Executives – Permanent 24111807 Family Solicitor 3 years PQE, relocating to Bristol or Cardiff from London. HNW experience. Full…
Reading Time: 3 minutesNew candidates registering with us in the last 7 days. Solicitors and Legal Executives – Permanent 09111611 Personal Injury ILEX with full range of experience. Looking around Yorkshire. Defendant and claimant. EL, PL, RTA, Portal. 05111111 NQ Level Solicitor looking for Conveyancing, Immigration and PI roles around London. £24k min. Returning after break. 30100740 Housing…
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe have over 11,000 solicitors and legal executives registered with us for permanent & locum vacancies and recruit at all levels including secretaries. Conveyancing locums available nationwide. Permanent Solicitors/ILEX 13102312 3 year PQE Family Solicitor from Legal 500 firm looking in Central London. Permanent. 09100926 Senior Property Solicitor looking for a move in SW London…
Reading Time: 3 minutesLegal Job Market Update September has been a busy month, much busier than expected, particularly on legal support roles. The Rugby World Cup has not had the same impact that Football tournaments have on recruitment business (the FIFA World Cup virtually puts a hold on permanent recruitment for 2-3 weeks!). Still a good number of…
Reading Time: 5 minutesWhat makes a good job reference? We often get job offers for our candidates which involve a clause to say that the offer is subject to satisfactory references. A few times during the last 16 years, we have experienced difficulties getting hold of a satisfactory reference but the vast majority of references are very straightforward.…
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe have over 11,000 solicitors and legal executives registered with us for permanent & locum vacancies and recruit at all levels including secretaries. Conveyancing locums available nationwide. Permanent Solicitors/ILEX 29091834 NQ Commercial Litigation Solicitor looking at permanent roles in London. £30k+. 22091156 Family Solicitor with 3 years PQE looking for permanent posts in London. 29091537…
Reading Time: 2 minutesTop 5 things to take to an interview with you We hear lots of feedback as recruiters as to items that our candidates take in with them to interviews and here are the top 5 to add value to any job applications you might make. 1) Your CV. So many people turn up to interview…
Reading Time: 4 minutesThere are an abundance of different websites online to search for legal jobs. These include job boards, agency websites, posting boards and blogs. However, these are the best sites in our experience (apart from our own of course!): 1) Law Society Gazette Online This site, until very recently, was in our opinion absolutely dreadful. The…
Reading Time: 4 minutesNew Candidate Update dated 24th September 2015 We have over 11,000 solicitors and legal executives registered with us for permanent & locum vacancies and recruit at all levels including secretaries. Conveyancing locums available nationwide. South East, South West, East Anglia and Home Counties 23091903 Conveyancing ILEX looking for permanent work specifically in Portsmouth. 23091645 Conveyancing…
Reading Time: 5 minutesWe have over 11,000 solicitors and legal executives registered with us for permanent & locum vacancies and recruit at all levels. Conveyancing locums available nationwide. South East, South West, East Anglia and Home Counties 11091355 Family Lawyer looking for permanent work – Norfolk, Cambs and South Lincs. Experience in HNW cases. 14090708 Conveyancing Paralegal with…
Reading Time: 4 minutesHow to have a Successful Career as a Legal Secretary Most people do not grow up thinking, “When I start work I want to be a legal secretary”. It is more common to think, “When I grow up I want to be a lawyer”. But these days legal secretaries in some law firms actually earn…
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe sometimes get queries from trainee solicitors asking if it is possible to change law firms during a training contract, and whether they ought to do it. Our advice is always the same; jump through the burning hoop of the training contract with as minimal fuss as possible and only change law firm if your…
Reading Time: 3 minutesVery recently, a candidate got in touch about a vacancy, explaining quite apologetically that she was returning to work after a break and could she be considered for the post. As a recruiter, I have to be honest and say that whenever anybody tells me they are returning to work I almost involuntarily sigh because…
Reading Time: 3 minutesImproving chances of success when applying for a job – become a Borg Whilst working as recruitment consultants, we often get asked by candidates what they can do to improve their chances in relation to a specific job that they may be considering applying for. Very often there are a whole raft of things that…
Reading Time: 5 minutesFive common mistakes when writing a CV. Here are five very common errors that arise from CVs we receive every day of the week into Ten Percent Legal Recruitment. Some of them are glaringly obvious, others are not so straightforward. 1) Not putting any contact details on the CV This is very common and a…
Reading Time: 4 minutesTop 5 Tips for making sure you get the most out of interviews. These tips apply as much to senior members of staff and managers as they do for junior staff. They are designed so that you get the most out of the recruitment process when you apply for jobs with a law firm. 1.…
Reading Time: 5 minutesTop 5 Tips for making sure you get the most out of candidates applying for your posts. These tips apply as much to senior members of staff and managers as they do for junior staff. They are designed so that you get the most out of the recruitment process when they apply for jobs with…
Reading Time: 2 minutesLegal Job Market Update August has been fairly predictable – plenty of locum roles coming in, a few permanent positions starting to be registered (this will pick up in September) and still a busy legal job market. It has been very difficult to source conveyancers for immediate starts over the summer, but we have availability…