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Candidate Update 26th June 2019 – Solicitors and Legal Executives

Reading Time: 3 minutesNew Permanent Candidates CAN-29389 Northampton Senior Residential Conveyancer looking for a suitable role in the Northampton area. CAN-29404 Cardiff 15 years PQE personal injury solicitor looking for a suitable role in the South Wales area. CAN-29405 Derby 6 months PQE residential conveyancing solicitor with previous 2+ years experience in conveyancing as a paralegal prior to…

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Legal Job Interview Question & Answer – are you prepared to relocate?

Reading Time: 2 minutesAdvice A fairly straight forward question in most circumstances as it is easy to give a fairly noncommittal response. Very often the question is asked of people who live in different areas to the company they have applied to or alternatively live a fair distance from the company but still potentially commutable in the short…

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Legal Job Interview Question & Answer – Describe a Situation when you had a communicate a message..

Reading Time: 2 minutesQuestion 21 – Describe a situation when you had to communicate a message to someone knowing that you were right and they were wrong and reluctant to accept your point of view. Advice This type of competency based interview question is more difficult because you need to think of a situation when there has been…

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What do my South African qualifications count for in the UK? I am a South African qualified lawyer.

Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you are a South African qualified lawyer who has decided to come to the UK to experience our high quality weather, our stable political system and our well functioning courts, congratulations! You may have spent 20 years practising in a good quality South African law firm undertaking high quality legal cases and you may…

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New Candidate Update 29th May 2019 – Solicitors – Locum and Permanent

Reading Time: 3 minutesNew Permanent Candidates CAN-29245 20 year PQE property solicitor dealing with a mix of residential and commercial property work including new builds and high net worth matters. Looking for permanent roles in central London. CAN-27615 2 year PQE residential conveyancing solicitor looking for locum assignments or permanent role in the Surrey region and surrounds. CAN-29287…

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Candidate Update 23rd May 2019 – New Solicitors and Legal Executives registering

Reading Time: 4 minutesGood morning. Please find below a list of solicitors registered with Ten Percent Legal in the past 7 days. New Permanent Candidates CAN-29260 South East London 5 year PQE Solicitor specialising in family law, civil litigation and immigration looking for a suitable role in South East London or Kent. CAN-29261 Southall 2 year PQE Solicitor…

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New Solicitor update 15th May 2019

Reading Time: 3 minutesPlease find below a list of solicitors registered with Ten Percent Legal in the past 14 days. Planning to recruit in 2019? Visit www.tenpercentunlimited.co.uk for our money-saving recruitment service. New Permanent Candidates CAN-29236 Kingston 25 year PQE Clinical Negligence and Catastrophic Injury Solicitor looking for a suitable role in Kent and London. CAN-29239 Bromley 1…

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Legal Job Interview Question and Answer – describe a situation in which you were a member of a team – what did you do to positively contribute to it?

Reading Time: 2 minutesAdvice This is the classic competency based interview question that gets asked time and time again in some form or another. It does not matter who you are and what your circumstances, there must have always been a time when you were a member of a team and you are able to give this information…

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Legal Job Interview Question and Answer – describe a situation in which you influenced or motivated people.

Reading Time: 2 minutesAdvice This is another relatively easy question because if you have prepared your approach to interview effectively you should have a number of examples that will cover this question already stored in your mind. It is a good time to get over the point that you are a team player who contributes effectively to a…

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Child Care Lawyers
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Childcare Solicitors – what do they do and how do I become one?

Reading Time: 4 minutesThere are a lot of different terms used for the work of a childcare solicitor. You will often see them described as solicitors with care proceedings experience, solicitors who do publicly funded family law work (just about the only thing left now that is publicly funded is care work), social services family lawyer, local authority…

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Solicitors looking for work – new candidate update 1st May 2019

Reading Time: 3 minutesGreater London CAN-29233 Company Commercial Paralegal with experience in commercial contracts, litigation and banking law, GDPR and data protection. Looking for a post in London. CAN-29234 Senior In House Lawyer with 10 years experience. Experience in litigation, company commercial law and IP with specific experience in the media & entertainment sector. Looking for posts in…

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New Solicitors looking for work 24th April 2019

Reading Time: 4 minutesPlease find below a list of solicitors registered with Ten Percent Legal in the past 14 days. Planning to recruit in 2019? Visit www.tenpercentunlimited.co.uk for our money-saving recruitment service. New Permanent Candidates CAN-29202 South East London 8 year PQE litigation solicitor dealing with civil and commercial litigation. Looking for posts in London. CAN-29198 West-Central London…

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New Solicitor Update 10th April 2019

Reading Time: 4 minutesNew Permanent Candidates CAN-29123 SE London 20 year PQE Property Solicitor dealing with all aspects of residential conveyancing. Looking for posts in South London. CAN-29124 10 year PQE Commercial Property Solicitor looking for a suitable role in the West or Central London areas. CAN-29131 Reading 20 year PQE In House Solicitor dealing with dispute resolution,…

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Legal Job Interview and Answer – describe a situation in which you have led a team.

Reading Time: 2 minutesAdvice This is a relatively easy question, mainly because the question is so short and gives you plenty of scope in terms of material and circumstances. It is likely that just about everybody can answer this question, whether through an example from work, an example from a sporting activity or personal interest or from their…

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Legal Job Interview Question and Answer – Describe a Situation in which you dealt with confrontation, for example a difficult customer?

Reading Time: 2 minutesAdvice This is an answer that most people can probably conjure up from somewhere as most of the workforce will have dealt with difficult customers. Everyone has had to deal with some sort of confrontation in their lives, whether in a sporting, academic or work environment. Try to think of a work-based example as these…

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Solicitors and Legal Executives – new candidates 27th March 2019

Reading Time: 3 minutesNew Permanent Candidates CAN-29107 Harrow NQ Solicitor with experience in corporate commercial law, commercial litigation, property litigation and commercial and residential property. Looking for a post in Middlesex or London. CAN-29103 Croydon 4 year PQE Family Law Solicitor looking for posts in and around South London. CAN-29100 Cardiff 10 year PQE Property Solicitor looking for…

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Shifting the Goalposts
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Locum Solicitors and the Curse of the Client’s Change of Plans

Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen you locum it is sometimes the case that the assignment you thought you were working on changes and the client shifts the goalposts quite dramatically. This doesn’t happen that often, particularly where a client has spoken directly to the locum to discuss the role beforehand, but it does happen. Recently we have come across…

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New Candidate Update 20th March 2019 Solicitors and Legal Executives

Reading Time: 3 minutesGood morning. Please find below a list of solicitors registered with Ten Percent Legal in the past 14 days. click here to register vacancies online, email jobs@ten-percent.co.uk or call 0800 246 5001. New Permanent Candidates CAN-29085 Guildford 15 year PQE Commercial Property Solicitor with experience working for Legal 500 firms. Looking for posts in Surrey…

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New Candidate Update 13th March 2019 from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment

Reading Time: 3 minutesNew Permanent Candidates CAN-29074 Ipswich Residential Conveyancer with over 5 years’ practical experience. Can manage all aspects of conveyancing from inception to registration without supervision. Solicitor. CAN-29073 Experienced Immigration Caseworker/Solicitor with Level 2 accreditation. Looking for a suitable role in Essex, North London or Central London. CAN-29065 6 month PQE Family Law Solicitor with exposure…

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Why do I never get offered job interviews – Top Tips for getting a job application noticed

Reading Time: 3 minutesEvery week we get lots of permanent vacancies and locum assignments from solicitors’ firms and in house legal departments. They’re often looking for a specific type of solicitor, with sufficient experience to do a specific job. Lets take a recent example. A firm in the South East of England are looking as follows: Permanent, Full…

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Legal Job Interview Question and Answer – Describe a project where you needed to involve input from other departments – how did you identify that need and how did you ensure buy-in from the appropriate leaders and managers?

Reading Time: 2 minutesAdvice This is a STAR competency based interview question. STAR stands for “Situation, Task, Action and Result” and this particular question is a strong example of where using this technique is so effective. Firstly it is probably almost impossible to answer this type of question without having thought about it before attending the interview. It…

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Legal Job Interview Question and Answer – describe a project or situation where you took a project to completion despite important opposition.

Reading Time: 2 minutesAdvice This type of question is competency based and involves using the STAR technique (Situation, Task, Action, Result). Manna from heaven for any Six Sigma practitioners or business change managers. For everyone else it is a very difficult question indeed as the majority of professionals do not spend their working lives dealing with conflict in…

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