Ten Percent Legal – Recruitment Agency with a Difference
Register for Work Search for Legal JobsTen-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.
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FAQ for Candidates
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).
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.
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/
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.
Recent Articles
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- New Solicitors and Law Firms For Sale 10th July 2025 from Ten Percent LegalReading Time: 5 minutesLists of new registered locum lawyers & permanent legal staff, featured law firm buyers and recently updated law firms for sale. 10th July 2025
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- Legal Job Market Report June 2025Reading Time: 3 minutesLegal Job Market Report – June 2025 from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment, Interim Lawyers and Jonathan Fagan Business Brokers.
- Ten Percent Legal Salary Guide – June 2025Reading Time: < 1 minuteTen Percent Legal Salary Guide – June 2025. Each month we publish a list of any salary levels we become aware of from employers in relation to jobs offered and salaries indicated. These are the salaries we have had indicated by law firms to us for 3 years PQE and upwards. London figures in brackets where relevant.
- Candidate Update 27th June 2025 – Solicitors Looking for Permanent & Locum Roles – Law Firms for Sale or Merger UpdateReading Time: 5 minutesCandidate Update 27th June 2025 – Solicitors Looking for Permanent & Locum Roles – Law Firms for Sale or Merger Update – from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment, Interim Lawyers Locum Recruitment and Jonathan Fagan Business Brokers Limited.
- New Locum & Permanent Solicitors Looking for Work, New Law Firms for Sale, 12th June 2025Reading Time: 6 minutesPlease find below lists of new registered locum lawyers & permanent legal staff, featured law firm buyers and recently updated law firms for sale. Call us on 0800 246 5001 or reply to this email.