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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 free online legal careers advice to lawyers.

Returning to Legal Work After a Career Break

If you are returning after time away, help an employer understand both your previous experience and the role you can take on now. A clear, current CV is more useful than trying to hide a gap in your employment history.

What to include with your CV

  • Previous work: your practice areas, responsibilities and the types of matters you handled.
  • Time away: the dates of your career break and a brief explanation you are comfortable sharing.
  • Recent preparation: relevant training, reading, volunteering or other work, with dates. Distinguish completed training from plans.
  • Practical requirements: your preferred location, hours, working arrangements and earliest start date.
  • Support: any induction, refresher training or supervision you would want to discuss with an employer.

Describe your experience accurately

Separate years since qualification from time spent practising. Say which systems and procedures you have used, and where your knowledge needs refreshing. Do not describe a qualification, practising status or accreditation as current unless it is.

A career break does not define the whole application. Use examples of your work to explain what you could contribute, and discuss the scope and support of each role before deciding whether it is suitable.

Read our earlier advice on returning after a career break alongside the preparation points above.

Solicitors returning to practice should also consult the SRA’s continuing competence guidance.

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I am a Law Graduate Seeking Paralegal Work – Can You Assist?

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It depends on your experience. If you have at least 6 months’ paid full time experience (can be unpaid if it is of sufficient quality in a solicitors’ firm) and be looking for permanent paralegal work rather than temporary. We do get paralegal roles registered with us by law firms and in house legal departments, but they will almost always be for permanent long term work and very rarely come with the promise of a training contract or to count as QWE (qualifying work experience).

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I am a Law Graduate Seeking a Training Contract – Can You Assist?

Categories: Candidates Careers

No. We get on average between 5 and 15 CVs each week from students and non-qualified paralegals without 6 months experience registering for work. We cannot assist because firms do not want to pay an external source to find trainees and inexperienced staff when the market is so overloaded with potential lawyers! We can assist with careers advice or help with questions answered on our blog and by email, but if you are a law graduate you need to be out there contacting law firms, not recruitment consultants. 

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Do You Offer Legal CV Advice?

Categories: Candidates Careers

Yes – we have a vast collection of advice articles on our website for solicitors, legal executives, paralegals, law students & graduates, as well as entrants to the legal profession. visit our legal CV advice pages – https://ten-percent.co.uk/cv-advice/

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Do You Help with Legal Careers Advice?

Category: Careers

We are always happy to give our opinion on a legal career question you may have. We do not help with CV advice, career coaching or interview practice, although we have done all three in the past.

I have a legal career-related question for you

Great! Drop us an email to cv@ten-percent.co.uk and we will see what we can do to assist, usually by writing a blog article for our website and sending you the link. A quick note back to say thank you always warms our hearts..

Fields of law we mainly assist with:

Agricultural, Child Care, Civil Litigation, Clinical Negligence, Commercial Contracts (including Contracts Manager roles), Commercial Litigation and Dispute Resolution, Commercial Property, Company Commercial, Corporate Commercial, Regulatory & Compliance, Residential Conveyancing, Data Protection, Construction, Residential Development work, In House Counsel work, Crime, Debt Recovery, Employment, Family/Matrimonial, Corporate & Business Immigration, Insolvency, Intellectual Property, Costs Draftsmen, Personal Injury, Planning, Private Client, Probate (Contentious), Professional Negligence, Property Litigation, Real Estate, Shipping Law, Trademarks, Trusts & Tax 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.

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