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
- Red Flags for Lawyers to Watch for During a Law Firm InterviewReading Time: 3 minutesRed Flags to Watch for During a Law Firm Interview – article by Ten Percent Legal Recruitment, specialists for solicitor recruitment in the UK.
- Mastering Due Diligence in Law Firm M&AReading Time: 5 minutesMastering Due Diligence in Law Firm M&A, Guest article from Harry Winkley, lead solicitor for SME law firm M&A at Herrington Carmichael.
- Retirement Webinar, Law Firms for Sale and Solicitors Looking for Work, 4th March 2026Reading Time: 7 minutesRetirement Webinar, Law Firms for Sale and Solicitors Looking for Work, 4th March 2026
- Salary Guide for Solicitors & Legal Support Staff – February 2026Reading Time: < 1 minuteTen Percent Legal Salary Guide – February 2026. Each month we publish a list of any salary levels we become aware of from employers in relation to jobs offered and salaries indicated via Ten Percent Legal Recruitment. These are the salaries we have had indicated by law firms to us for 3 years PQE and upwards.
- Legal Recruitment News February 2026Reading Time: < 1 minuteWelcome to the February 2026 edition of Legal Recruitment News. It includes our Legal Job Market Report, locum hourly rates & solicitor salary guide, a guest article from Herrington Carmichael Solicitors on mastering due diligence, red flags to spot in interviews, CV writing & legal careers articles and our £500 charity donation to Human Rights Solidarity.
- Solicitors looking for work and new law firms for sale, 18th February 2026Reading Time: 5 minutesSolicitors looking for work and law firms for sale, 18th February 2026, the Ten Percent Group of companies.
- New Solicitors and Law FIrms for Sale 12th February 2026Reading Time: 6 minutesnew solicitors looking for work and law firms for sale,Ten Percent Legal Recruitment and Jonathan Fagan Business Brokers. 12th February 2026.
- Legal Recruitment News January 2026Reading Time: < 1 minuteWelcome to the January 2026 edition of Legal Recruitment News. It includes: • Legal Job Market Report • Locum hourly rates & solicitor salary guide • Selling a law firm – your questions answered • New Year, Time For Change? – Career Planning for Solicitors – 15 Top Tips • CV writing & legal careers articles
- New Solicitors Looking for Work and Law Firms for Sale, 4th February 2026Reading Time: 5 minutesThe Ten Percent Group have over 1,550 registered & vetted locum solicitors on our books, 12,500 solicitors and over 40 law firms for sale, with 1,500+ registered law firm buyers. Here are the highlights from our instructions this week, 4th February 2026.
- Ten Percent Legal Salary Guide – January 2026Reading Time: < 1 minuteTen Percent Legal Recruitment – 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. January 2026