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Ten Percent Legal – the Recruitment Agency with a Difference (or two)

Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment Consultants for Permanent and Locum Legal Jobs in the UK and offshore. Over 2,500 law firms have used our services since April 2000 and we donate 10% of our profits to charity.

We work with all fee earners and legal support staff including solicitors, legal executives, licensed conveyancers, legal cashiers, costs draftspeople, law firm managers & directors, in house lawyers & barristers. We work with law firms of all shapes and sizes, in house legal departments and local government. We also offer legal careers advice to lawyers and law students.

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Fields of law we mainly assist with:

Agricultural, Child Care (both private practice and local authority), Civil Litigation (including Consumer, General and Specialist), Clinical Negligence, Commercial Contracts (including Contracts Manager roles), Commercial Litigation and Dispute Resolution, Commercial Property (light and heavy), Company/Commercial, Corporate Commercial, Regulatory and Compliance, Residential Conveyancing, Residential Development work, Crime, Debt Recovery, Employment, Family/Matrimonial (Private and LSC funded), Housing, Immigration, Insolvency, Intellectual Property, Costs Draftsmen, Personal Injury, Planning, Private Client, Probate (Contentious), Professional Negligence, Property Litigation, Real Estate, Shipping Law, Taxation, Trademarks, Trusts & Tax, Welfare Benefits and Wills & Probate – including Contentious Probate, Court of Protection matters and Lasting Power of Attorney work.

Legal Job Locations covered:

We work in all areas of the UK from our offices in London, Chester/North Wales and Glasgow, including the West End, City, Docklands, East London, West London, South London & Croydon and Greater London. We also cover all the regions. Over the years we have been particularly strong in London, Middlesex, Surrey, Kent, Essex, the Thames Valley, the South East and South Coast (Southampton, Portsmouth and Bournemouth) and the South West (including Exeter, Plymouth and Bristol) . We occasionally deal with offshore assignments and have worked in jurisdictions including the Falkland Islands and Bermuda.

Recent Articles

• Legal Job Market Report April 202527/04/2025
  Reading Time: 3 minutesHere is our summary of the current state of the UK legal job market. Ten Percent Legal Recruitment, specialist legal recruitment consultants for UK law firms and in house legal departments.
• Legal Recruitment News April 202526/04/2025
  Reading Time: < 1 minuteWelcome to the April 2025 edition of Legal Recruitment News. It includes our legal job market report, locum hourly rates, a solicitor salary guide, CV, interview & careers advice and a spotlight on one of our charity donations.
• How to Negotiate a Pay Rise (not)24/04/2025
  Reading Time: 2 minutesAsking for a pay rise can be daunting, and let’s face it, many of us approach it in an extremely amateurish way. Here are ten negotiating points to avoid. We have come heard of at least eight of them being used by candidates with clients over the years!
• Solicitors Looking for Work – Locum and Permanent, Law Firms for Sale or Merger 17th April 202517/04/2025
  Reading Time: 6 minutesSolicitors looking for work and law firms for sale 17th April 2025 from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment, Interim Lawyers and Jonathan Fagan
• Solicitors and Fee Earners Looking for Legal Jobs April 3rd 2025 Ten Percent Legal Recruitment and Jonathan Fagan Business Brokers03/04/2025
  Reading Time: 4 minutesSolicitors and Fee Earners Looking for Legal Jobs April 3rd 2025 Ten Percent Legal Recruitment
• Solicitors Looking for Work and New Law Firms For Sale 26th March 202526/03/2025
  Reading Time: 5 minutesPlease find below lists of new locum lawyers & permanent legal staff registering with us between 19th & 26th March, and recently listed or updated law firms for sale or merger. Ten Percent Legal Recruitment, Interim Lawyers and Jonathan Fagan Business Brokers.
• New Lawyers Looking for Work and Law Firms for Sale, 20th March 202520/03/2025
  Reading Time: 5 minutesPlease find below lists of new locum lawyers & permanent legal staff registering with us between 5th March and 19th March, and recently listed or updated law firms for sale or merger.
• Charity Donation Suggestions Requested Please By 1st May 2025 – Ten Percent Foundation18/03/2025
  Reading Time: 3 minutesen Percent Legal Recruitment , Interim Lawyers Locum Recruitment , Jonathan Fagan Business Brokers  donate 10% of their profits to The Ten Percent Foundation, and the foundation accepts possible donation suggestions from many different sources. We are accepting nominations for any charities that you would like us to support again this year and as there is a trustees’ meeting after Easter where any nominations received before 1st May 2025 will be considered.
• Legal Recruitment News March 202516/03/2025
  Reading Time: < 1 minuteWelcome to the March 2025 edition of Legal Recruitment News. It includes our legal job market report, locum hourly rates, a solicitor salary guide, CV, interview & careers advice and a spotlight on one of our charity donations.
• The Destruction of the Classic CV – AI Strikes Again!15/03/2025
  Reading Time: 3 minutesThe destruction of classic CVs by AI – the removal of an assumption that employers can rely on a CV to decide whether to recruit a candidate – article by Ten Percent Legal Recruitment.