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. 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 they are. I thought I…
Reading Time: 2 minutesCV Writing – Tips for Getting Noticed Here are 10 top tips from us on how to get your CV noticed by employers: Make sure your CV is extremely detailed and contains all the work relevant to the application you are making. Information such as details of billing levels for the past 3 to 4…
Reading Time: 2 minutesLegal Job Market Update March 2016 February has been a month of two halves again (I say this every year). We spend the first week watching the post-Christmas recruitment spike recede and then skiing holidays together with half term breaks kicking in. Locum work has picked up towards the end of the month. Permanent vacancies…
Reading Time: 3 minutesNo. Mitigating circumstances do not exist. Ever. Well, hardly ever. “Mitigating circumstances” is probably one of the most irritating phrases ever to come out of university careers advice centres. What a fantastic excuse for rubbish grades. We have just had a CV in from someone using the term when they got a 2.1 from a…
Reading Time: 4 minutesNew Candidates Registered with Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment and Interim Lawyers dated 24th February 2016 New Permanent Fee Earner Candidates 23022130 Residential and Commercial Property Solicitor, 1 year PQE, looking for roles in SW London and Surrey. Strong background. Permanent. 23020826 Industrial Disease, Costs and Compliance FILEX with 20 years experience, looking around Manchester and the…
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…