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New Candidate and Law Firm Sale Update 17th October 2018

Reading Time: 3 minutesNew Locum Lawyers Contact InterimLawyers.co.uk with your requirements. CAN-28786 3 year PQE Company Commercial Solicitor available for locum assignments in the Cambridge area and surrounds. CAN-28788 15 year PQE Residential Conveyancing Solicitor available for locum assignments in the London region. CAN-28797 14 year PQE Conveyancing Solicitor available for locum assignments in the Buckinghamshire region and…

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Legal Job Interview Question and Answer – Describe a project or situation where you had to use different leadership styles to reach your goal?

Reading Time: 2 minutesAdvice This is a question involving the STAR technique and another example of a question where you need to have specific projects and incidents stored in your brain ready to be adapted to answer these questions. The author of this article thinks that this approach to interviewing is not particularly good or effective.  The technique…

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Legal Job Interview Question and Answer – describe a company you think is doing well or badly and explain why you think this is so?

Reading Time: 2 minutesAdvice Preferably you will have been asked this question with just the well as opposed to the badly bit as it is a general rule in interviews that wherever possible you try to avoid any negative comment or thought about anything. It does make a difference to the perception of the interviewer if you focus…

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Legal Job Interview Question and Answer – Are you hoping for specialisation in a particular field. If so, why?

Reading Time: 2 minutesAdvice This is a loaded question and one you need to be very careful about answering.  If you are applying for a junior post, for example a training contract with a solicitors’ firm, you really should not be giving any indication at this stage of an interest to specialise in.  You simply do not know…

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Candidate Update dated 3rd October 2018

Reading Time: 3 minutesNew Locum Lawyers Contact InterimLawyers.co.uk with your requirements. CAN 21637 Commercial Property and Corporate Commercial Solicitor with over 20 years experience available for locum work in London, the Midlands and the Home Counties. CAN 24419 15 year PQE Company Commercial Solicitor looking for locum assignments in the Surrey and London areas. Also experienced in commercial…

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Legal Job Interview Question and Answer – Are you considering any other positions at the moment?

Reading Time: 2 minutesAdvice This question really depends on the circumstances of the interview. If you have been headhunted, are currently in employment and not particularly looking until you were approached then it would be perfectly acceptable to give a straightforward answer. If not, you need to consider your response very carefully. If you give an affirmative answer…

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Legal Job Interview Question and Answer – Are you Aggressive?

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAdvice This is almost a challenge and is again one of those interview questions that can really only be considered in a negative fashion.  There are obviously jobs where aggression is considered to a certain extent as a positive at certain levels, but this question really is one to determine negative and not positive issues. …

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Candidate Update – Solicitors and Legal Executives – 27th September 2018

Reading Time: 3 minutesNew Locum Lawyers Contact InterimLawyers.co.uk with your requirements (we have over 700 active locums registered with us covering the UK – CVs usually sent within 60 mins). Ref 26091037 Real Estate and Finance Solicitor with 5+ years experience in Legal 500 firms looking for locum work in Leeds and further afield. CAN-28765 20 year PQE…

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Solicitor Candidates 19th September 2018 from TP Legal and Interim Lawyers

Reading Time: 3 minutesNew Locum Lawyers Contact InterimLawyers.co.uk with your requirements (we have over 700 active locums registered with us covering the UK – CVs usually sent within 60 mins). CAN-27740 6 year PQE solicitor available for locum assignments in the Yorkshire region. Expertise in Child care law, residential conveyancing and commercial law. Huddersfield CAN-27742 20 year PQE…

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in Careers Advice, Employers, Job Applications, Legal Profession

We want to recruit a paralegal and he’s got to be male

Reading Time: 2 minutesWe took a call yesterday from a solicitors firm somewhere in England and Wales, and the conversation went as follows: “Hello I wonder if you can help, we’re looking for a family paralegal.” “Yes sure, can you give me a bit more information please?” “Yes, we would like a paralegal who’s able to assist with…

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Law Firms for Sale and Potential Investors – September 13th 2018

Reading Time: 3 minutesLaw Firms for Sale 15051610 South Coast Specialist Elderly Client Practice. Small law firm based in England with owner looking to retire. Clean break or consultancy possible, well established, strong local links generating work. Bolt on, office expansion or new area of law all very suitable options. 25061553 West Yorkshire Licensed conveyancer looking to sell…

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Legal Job Market Update 13th September 2018

Reading Time: 2 minutesTo read Legal Recruitment News for September 2018 please click here: http://www.legal-recruitment.co.uk/september-2018-legal-recruitment-news/ Summary In recent months there has been a lot of political uncertainty and we were curious to see whether this had been reflected in the legal job market. So this month we have undertaken a comparison with the same time period last year…

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New Candidate Update 9th September 2018 – Solicitors from TP Legal

Reading Time: 3 minutesNew Locum Solicitors & ILEX – from £25 per hour Contact InterimLawyers.co.uk with your requirements (we have over 700 active locums registered with us covering the UK – CVs usually sent within 60 mins). CAN-27687 5 year PQE Property Solicitor available for locum assignments in Greater London and Kent region. Residential and commercial work covered.…

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New Candidates – Solicitors and Legal Executives – from TP Legal and Interim Lawyers

Reading Time: 3 minutesNew Locum Solicitors & ILEX – from £25 per hour Contact InterimLawyers.co.uk with your requirements (we have over 700 active locums registered with us covering the UK – CVs usually sent within 60 mins). CAN 27127 30 year PQE Private Client Solicitor dealing with wills & probate, LPA, COP and elderly client matters. Further residential…

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Candidate Update 1st August 2018 – Solicitors and Legal Executives

Reading Time: 2 minutesNew Locum Solicitors & ILEX – from £25 per hour Contact InterimLawyers.co.uk with your requirements (we have over 700 active locums registered with us covering the UK – CVs usually sent within 60 mins). CAN-27626 15 year PQE Property and Commercial Solicitor available for locum assignments nationwide but ideally in Yorkshire and the North of…

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Mental Health in West London

Reading Time: < 1 minuteA medium sized and very well established firm based in West London are looking for a mental health supervisor to work out of their Hayes office.  The successful candidate will be heading the department and LAA Supervisor status is essential.  The post will be full-time, permanent and salary levels will be 45k per annum. If…

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Candidate Update – 25th July 2018 – Solicitors and Legal Executives

Reading Time: 3 minutesNew Locum Solicitors & ILEX – from £25 per hour Contact InterimLawyers.co.uk with your requirements (we have over 700 active locums registered with us covering the UK – CVs usually sent within 60 mins). 24072049 Legal Cashier available for part time locum roles around London. Ongoing contracts considered also. 25071027 Commercial Contracts, Compliance and General…

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Family Solicitor in Manchester

Reading Time: < 1 minuteA medium sized Greater Manchester firm is looking for a child care solicitor to work at their office based in Heywood.  Caseload will be predominantly legal aid child care work but there will also be some fairly standard privately funded family law work. Happy to consider NQ to fairly senior solicitors.  The role will be…

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Candidate Update – Solicitors and others – July 20th 2018

Reading Time: 3 minutesNew Locum Solicitors & ILEX – from £25 per hour Contact InterimLawyers.co.uk with your requirements (we have over 700 active locums registered with us covering the UK – CVs usually sent within 60 mins). CAN-27552 8 year PQE Property Solicitor available for locum assignments in the Cheshire and Greater Manchester region. Residential and commercial work…

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Conveyancing Secretary, Canvey Island

Reading Time: < 1 minuteA well-established South Essex solicitors firm based on Canvey Island within easy travel of Southend-on-Sea, require an experienced and reliable legal secretary to assist the fee earner with residential conveyancing matters. The firm are looking for candidates with previous conveyancing experience who want to develop a long term career with the firm. The firm uses…

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Can A Level grades affect your Legal Career forever?

Reading Time: 2 minutesWe have had a query this week from a Year 13 student awaiting A level grades – can poor A Level Results affect any chances of a legal career? The quick and honest answer, and something perhaps relevant to qualified solicitors with many years PQE even, and an answer you will rarely hear from HR…

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CV Review for Paralegal in South East England

Reading Time: 4 minutesCV Review for a Paralegal – as usual personal data removed. Feedback at the bottom of the CV. Reviewee has consented to this review being published. On these reviews please ignore the layout – this is due to our cut and paste operation! ——————————————————————– CANDIDATE NAME Address: Email: Telephone (Mob): Telephone (Home): EDUCATION  September 2018…

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New Candidate Update 27th June 2018

Reading Time: 2 minutesNew Locum Solicitors & ILEX – from £25 per hour Contact InterimLawyers.co.uk with your requirements (we have over 700 active locums registered with us covering the UK – CVs usually sent within 60 mins). CAN-27511 3 year PQE Commercial Property Solicitor, available for locum assignments in the West Midlands. CAN-27497 15 year PQE Conveyancing Solicitor…

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