Reading Time: 2 minutesWelcome to possibly the shortest legal job market update I have written in over 15 years of writing monthly legal job market reports for Ten Percent Legal. In a nutshell the permanent job market has shuddered to a halt, locum work has dramatically dropped, but the law firm sale market seems active still (whether or…
Reading Time: 4 minutesWe took a call a few weeks ago from a sole practitioner specialising in employment law and some other forms of litigation. He explained that his caseload was such that although he had enough work for two or three days per week he was looking for a way of increasing his working week and his…
Reading Time: 4 minutesRule of Thumb for Pay A simple rule of thumb is that corporate and commercial law fields pay well, personal service law fields pay not so well. Corporate and commercial solicitors can be earning £100k and upwards, personal service law fields (aka high street solicitors) earn up to around £50k in most cases. Local authority…
Reading Time: 3 minutesNew Locum Lawyers Click here to book a locum (we have 1064 locum solicitors registered on our platform, with hourly rates starting at just £25 plus agency fees) or call 0800 246 5001. CAN-30034 Residential and Commercial Property Solicitor looking for locum posts following a short career break. CAN-29926 25 year PQE Corporate Commercial Solicitor…
Reading Time: 2 minutesAdvice This is a difficult question if you have not worked in a senior managerial post or sales and profits did not increase in your last job. This is also difficult if you are applying at a time of recession rather than at a time of boom because sales and profits do not necessarily increase…
Reading Time: 2 minutesAdvice This is a loaded question, if you say anything negative about a former employer it immediately makes the interviewer think you are likely to consider them in a similar fashion in a few years’ time. If however your application to the firm has been on the basis that there has been a lack of…
Reading Time: 2 minutesA graduate has recently written to us to ask us for advice on what to do with a third class degree and a potential legal career. The graduate finished at university in September 2017 with a third class law degree and his query to us also stated the fact that he had not got any…
Reading Time: 2 minutesLegal Recruitment – busy market Each month we run a comparison between the last calendar month and the same time period in 2019 to see if there has been any noticeable difference. In January we saw very little change from 2019 to 2020. So how was February 2020 compared to February 2019? We saw a…
Reading Time: 3 minutesGood morning – please find below a list of lawyers registered with Ten Percent Legal in the past 7 days. We have over 11,000 solicitors on our database. Unable to find a suitable candidate in the list below? Let us help. Drop us an email over or give us a call and we would be…
Reading Time: < 1 minuteInterview Question 36 Advice This again is a fairly simple question with a fairly straight forward answer to it. Remember at all times in interview you must stay positive. Failing to stay positive will result in firms unnecessarily considering you to have negative thoughts. Negative thoughts in interview indicates someone who may be overly critical…
Reading Time: 2 minutesInterview Question 35 – Did the course live up to your expectations? Advice This relates specifically to somebody who has just left university and has very little work experience for the interviewer to discuss and explore. It will rarely be asked of anyone who has been out of college or university for a number of…
Reading Time: 2 minutesLegal Recruitment – busy market Each month we run a comparison between the last calendar month and the same time period in 2019 to see if there has been any noticeable difference. In December we saw a 63% decrease in the number of permanent vacancies registered with us and a 100% increase in the number…
Reading Time: 3 minutesPlease find below a list of lawyers registered with Ten Percent Legal in the past 7 days. We have over 11,000 solicitors on our database. Unable to find a suitable candidate in the list below? Let us help. Drop us an email over or give us a call and we would be glad to assist.…
Reading Time: 5 minutesCompanies often call us up with their specifications for in-house legal posts, and this invariably involves a little bit of negotiation on what is essential and what is desirable. Quite often companies start with the idea that certain particulars are essential, but after reviewing CVs for a little while, realise that actually a lot of…
Reading Time: 3 minutesGood morning – please find below a list of lawyers registered with Ten Percent Legal in the past 14 days. We have over 11,000 solicitors on our database. Unable to find a suitable candidate in the list below? Let us help. Drop us an email over or give us a call and we would be…
Reading Time: 3 minutesGood morning – please find below a list of lawyers registered with Ten Percent Legal in the past 14 days. We have over 11,000 solicitors on our database. Unable to find a suitable candidate in the list below? Let us help. Drop us an email over or give us a call and we would be…
Reading Time: 2 minutesI have found myself today emailing the same information across to at least three different law firms in relation to potential acquisitions and meeting the sellers for the first time. Buyers seem to want to go straight into the sellers’ offices and meet them, as well as expecting the seller to want to arrange this…
Reading Time: 2 minutesAdvice This is a difficult question because it is asking you to in some way criticise work colleagues and to perhaps idolise other work colleagues. This is a question potentially loaded towards the interviewer as opposed to the interviewee. At its rawest form you could end up giving an answer that indicates to the interview…
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAdvice This is another question where you need to have a stock of answers ready to be tailored according to the particular question that is put to you. This one gives you the chance to demonstrate something of quality that pushes your case with the company in relation to the role you are applying for…
Reading Time: 2 minutesHow to change your CV and improve it dramatically with this simple hack. Simply change your profile at the top of your CV so that is actually reflects who you are and not the usual nonsense that 90% of CVs seem to contain. By this I mean including factual information rather than a load of…
Reading Time: 2 minutesLegal Recruitment – busy market Each month we run a comparison between the last calendar month and the same time period in 2019 to see if there has been any noticeable difference. In November we saw a 40% decrease in the number of new permanent vacancies and a 28% decrease in the number of locum…
Reading Time: 3 minutesNew Locum Lawyers NB: Conveyancing & Private Client cover – good availability at present. CAN-29887 Twickenham 15 year PQE Wills & Probate Solicitor, available for locum work in the Greater London region. CAN-29889 Chelmsford 3 year PQE property solicitor available for locum work in Essex and Greater London. Residential and commercial property work covered. CAN-29890…
Reading Time: 4 minutesNew Locum Lawyers Conveyancing & Private Client Locums – we have a range of locums available to assist across the UK. Good availability at present. CAN-29865 Gloucester Residential Conveyancing Legal Executive with around 7 years experience and CQS accreditation. Available for locum work in the Gloucester area and surrounds. CAN-29852 Llandudno 25 year PQE Property…
Reading Time: < 1 minuteTo read our regular monthly legal recruitment news, please click the link below. It will take you to our sister site www.legal-recruitment.co.uk – a sub site of Ten Percent Legal Recruitment. http://www.legal-recruitment.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/December_2019_Legal_Recruitment_News_and_Job_Market_Report_from_Ten_Percent_Legal.pdf
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe do see some gems of interview questions coming our way, and this one is our favourite at the moment. Are you the type of person to cry if someone shouts at you? What a question, and perhaps the person asking it was really testing the interviewee to see how they would respond. Would the…
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAdvice This is a negative question and one that wherever possible should be avoided. It does not matter how you answer the question, the answer you give will have to result in you providing the interviewer with evidence of a negative point. Wit this in mind it is worth trying to avoid answering the question…
Reading Time: 2 minutesAdvice This question is quite an easy one, but it is important not to fall into the trap of giving a general answer instead of a specific one. The question has asked you to describe a time, not a circumstance that you regularly find yourself in. Try to think of a specific occasion when you…
Reading Time: 4 minutesLegal Job Market Report Legal Recruitment – busy market Each month we run a comparison between the last calendar month and the same time period in 2018 to see if there has been any noticeable difference. In October we saw a 32% increase in the number of new permanent vacancies and a 145% increase in…
Reading Time: 4 minutesGood morning – please find below a list of lawyers registered with Ten Percent Legal in the past 7 days. We have over 11,000 solicitors on our database. Unable to find a suitable candidate in the list below? Let us help. Drop us an email over or give us a call and we would be…
Reading Time: 3 minutesPlease find below a list of lawyers registered with Ten Percent Legal in the past 7 days. We have over 11,000 solicitors on our database. Unable to find a suitable candidate in the list below? Let us help. Drop us an email over or give us a call and we would be glad to assist.…