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
- Solicitors looking for work, law firms for sale 7th January 2026Reading Time: 4 minutesThe Ten Percent Group have over 1,550 registered & vetted locum solicitors on our books, 12,500 solicitors looking for work and over 40 law firms for sale, with 1,500+ registered law firm buyers.
- New Registered Solicitors Looking For Jobs and Law Firms For Sale Update, 11th December 2025Reading Time: 4 minutesThe Ten Percent Group (Ten Percent Legal Recruitment, Jonathan Fagan Business Brokers and Interim Lawyers) have over 1,550 registered & vetted locum solicitors on our books, 12,500 solicitors and over 35 law firms for sale, with 1,500+ registered law firm buyers. Here are the highlights from our instructions this week.
- New Solicitors Looking for Locum Jobs and Permanent Work, Updated Law Firms for Sale, 3rd December 2025Reading Time: 5 minutesNew Solicitors Looking for Locum Jobs and Permanent Work, Updated Law Firms for Sale, 3rd December 2025.
- Getting to the Top on Google, AI and Google AdsReading Time: 5 minutesSearch Engine Optimisation (SEO), Content Marketing and Artificial Intelligence (AI) – Exclusive Article from Nick Jervis, Author of “The Law Firm Growth Formula”
- Ten Percent Legal Salary Guide – November 2025Reading Time: < 1 minuteTen Percent Legal Salary Guide – November 2025.
- New Solicitors Looking For Work and New Law Firms For SaleReading Time: 6 minutesThe Ten Percent Group have over 1,550 registered & vetted locum solicitors on our books, 12,500 solicitors and over 35 law firms for sale, with 1,500+ registered law firm buyers. Here are the highlights from our new instructions this week: Locum Lawyers 18 year PQE locum solicitor with extensive commercial property experience but also able…
- Legal Job Market Report November 2025Reading Time: 3 minutesLegal Job Market Report – November 2025 – summary of the current state of the UK legal job market from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment.
- Legal Recruitment News – November 2025 – includes exclusive content from Nick Jervis, the Law Firm Growth expertReading Time: < 1 minuteWelcome to the November 2025 edition of Legal Recruitment News. It includes our Legal Job Market Report, locum hourly rates & solicitor salary guide, SEO, getting to the top of Google and being found in AI searches (exclusive article from law firm marketing expert Nick Jervis), solving hiring shortages by recruiting locum to permanent and Tiyeni – a small UK-Malawian charity needing your support.
- Thinking About a Move in Residential Conveyancing?Reading Time: < 1 minuteThinking About a Move in Residential Conveyancing? Ten Percent Legal Recruitment is starting to see a real shortfall of permanent, salaried conveyancing lawyers looking at jobs and law firms are ceasing to even attempt to recruit.
- New Solicitors Looking for Work and Law Firms for Sale, 12th November 2025Reading Time: 4 minutesWe have over 1,550 registered and vetted locum solicitors on our books and over 40 law firms for sale, with 1,500+ registered buyers. Here are some highlights for you.