What field of law has the best paid jobs?
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhich fields of law pay best? Article from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment for law students and lawyers looking at choosing law areas.
Jonathan Fagan
Jonathan Fagan LLM FIRP is Managing Director of Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment. He has been recruiting solicitors and legal support staff for law firms and in house legal departments for over 25 years and handles law firm sales & mergers. A non-practising solicitor on the Roll since 2000, he is also the author of a number of legal career books. You can contact Jonathan at cv@ten-percent.co.uk
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Legal Recruitment News July 2022
Reading Time: < 1 minuteGood morning and welcome to the July 2022 edition of Legal Recruitment News. It includes our legal job market report, locum hourly rates, recruiting expensive candidates, using LinkedIn, an unusual law firm purchase offer, our charity donation, and more.
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Using LinkedIn for Recruitment
Reading Time: 3 minutesUsing LinkedIn for recruitment – any good? Article from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment on our experiences.
Recruiting an unaffordable candidate – what can I do?
Reading Time: 4 minutesWhat can I do to recruit an unaffordable candidate? Article by Ten Percent Legal Recruitment for law firms and employers.
Legal Job Market Report 21st July 2022
Reading Time: 3 minutesLegal job market report from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment, Interim Lawyers Locum Legal and Jonathan Fagan Business Brokers. July 2022.
New Solicitors Looking for Work and Law Firms for Sale 9th July 2022
Reading Time: 4 minutesNew solicitors and law firms for sale 9th July 2022 from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment, Jonathan Fagan Business Brokers and Interim Lawyers Locum Legal Recruitment.
New Solicitors and Law Firms Looking for a Sale 23rd June 2022
Reading Time: 4 minutesNew solicitors looking for a job and law firms for sale. Update from Ten Percent Legal and Interim Lawyers Locum Legal Recruitment dated 23rd June 2022.
New Solicitors Looking for Work and Law Firms for Sale 15th June 2022
Reading Time: 5 minutesTen Percent Group Candidate Update 15th June 2022 – new law firms for sale and new candidates looking for work.
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Legal Recruitment News June 2022
Reading Time: < 1 minutewelcome to the June 2022 edition of Legal Recruitment News. It includes our legal job market report, locum hourly rates, remote working, stopping running a law firm, welcoming a new employee and more.
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How to get a new employee off to the best start
Reading Time: 4 minutesWhat things can you do to make that new candidate feel like this has been the right move for them? Article by Jonathan Fagan MD of Ten Percent Legal Recruitment.
I’ve been working from an office for 40 years, so why can’t others?
Reading Time: 4 minutesOne of the key issues in relation to offering flexible hours and remote working is the attitude of well established law firm owners, particularly in the smaller sized SME sector, where the recruiting partner or manager is very often the owner of the practice.
Legal Job Market Report June 2022
Reading Time: 2 minutesLegal job market report from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment and Interim Lawyers dated June 2022. Solicitors and legal executives.
New Candidate Update and Law Firms for Sale 26th May 2022
Reading Time: 3 minutesNew solicitors looking for work and law firms for sale. Update from Ten Percent Legal and Interim Lawyers Locum Legal Recruitment. 26th May 2022
New Solicitors looking for work and Law Firms for Sale 19th May 2022
Reading Time: 4 minutesNew Solicitors looking for work and Law Firms for Sale 19th May 2022 – update from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment and Interim Lawyers.
Can a lawyer be a millionaire?
Reading Time: 2 minutesCan a lawyer be a millionaire? Article by Jonathan Fagan, MD of Ten Percent Legal Recruitment and a non-practising solicitor.
How to negotiate a pay rise and how to deal with a request for a pay rise
Reading Time: 4 minutesHow to negotiate a pay rise and how to deal with a request for a pay rise – article by Ten Percent Legal Recruitment for solicitors and employers.
How should a legal CV look in 2022?
Reading Time: 4 minutesDo legal CVs in the 2020s need to be completely revamped and have a specific format because of the way most CVs are now processed by potential employers? – eg keywords, applicant tracking systems ATS, videos and online information.
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Legal Recruitment News May 2022
Reading Time: < 1 minuteGood morning and welcome to the May 2022 edition of Legal Recruitment News. It includes our
legal job market report, locum hourly rates, CV advice, succession planning, negotiating pay rises, millionaire solicitors and more.
New Solicitor and Law Firm for Sale Update 5th May 2022
Reading Time: 4 minutesNew candidates registering for work and new law firms for sale – from Ten Percent Legal, Interim Lawyers and Jonathan Fagan Brokers. 5th May 2022.
30th April 2022 – Ten Percent Legal Recruitment & Interim Lawyers – New Candidates and Law Firms for Sale
Reading Time: 4 minutes30th April 2022 – Ten Percent Legal Recruitment & Interim Lawyers – New Candidates and Law Firms for Sale update.
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Ten Percent on TV
Reading Time: 2 minutesTen Percent – the new TV series on Amazon Prime starring Jim Broadbent, David Harewood, Helena Bonham-Carter and many other celebrities. Remake of Call My Agent.
Solicitors looking for work and recent additions to law firms for sale 21st April 2022
Reading Time: 4 minutesRecent solicitors looking for work and law firms for sale or merger from Ten Percent Legal and Jonathan Fagan Business Brokers. 21st April 2022 update.
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Legal Recruitment News April 2022
Reading Time: < 1 minuteApril 2022 edition of Legal Recruitment News. It includes our legal job market report, locum hourly rates, careers advice, time limits on job offers, how not to offer equity to junior partners and an article on law firm valuations.
Legal Job Market Update April 14th 2022
Reading Time: 2 minutesLegal job market report from Ten Percent Legal and Interim Lawyers Locum Recruitment, dated 14th April 2022.
Solicitors looking for work and new law firm update 7th April 2022
Reading Time: 4 minutesNew solicitors looking for work and law firms for sale in the UK. Update from Ten Percent Legal, Interim Lawyers Locum and Jonathan Fagan Brokers. 7th April 2022.
New Solicitors Looking for Work and Law Firms for Sale 30th March 2022
Reading Time: 4 minutesNew Solicitors Looking for Work and Law Firms for Sale 30th March 2022 from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment and Interim Lawyers Locum Recruitment.
New Solicitors Looking for Work and Law Firms for Sale 25th March 2022
Reading Time: 5 minutesNew solicitors looking for work and law firms for sale. update 25th March 2022 from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment, Interim Lawyers and Jonathan Fagan
New Candidates and Law Firms for Sale Update 17th March 2022
Reading Time: 4 minutesNew Candidates and Law Firms for Sale Update 17th March 2022 from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment.
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Charity Donations 2022 – £37,000 Fund – Suggestions Welcome
Reading Time: 2 minutesCharity Donations 2022 – £37,000 Fund – Suggestions Welcome. The Ten Percent Foundation, donating 10% of annual profits to charity from the Ten Percent Group.
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Returning to law, changing fields of law or starting out in law – what do I need to do?
Reading Time: 4 minutesReturning to law, changing fields of law or starting out in law – what do I need to do? Get work experience. Article by Ten Percent Legal.