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Ten Percent Legal – Unique Legal Recruitment Consultants

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.

A Confidential Legal Job Search

Looking for a new role does not mean you want your current employer, colleagues or professional contacts to know.

Ten Percent Legal Recruitment will ask for your permission before sending your CV or personal details to an employer.

Will you send my CV without asking me?

No. Registering your details does not give us unrestricted permission to circulate your CV. We will ask before releasing it to a firm.

Do you advertise anonymous candidate profiles?

We circulate brief anonymous summaries of candidates to potential employers. These summaries describe relevant experience and the type of role sought without naming the candidate.

If your practice area, location or background makes you particularly recognisable, tell us when registering so that we can discuss your concerns.

Can I tell you which employers to avoid?

Please tell us about your current employer, firms you have already approached and any organisations you do not want contacted. Discuss any restrictions with your consultant before an approach is made.

Ready to discuss your next move?

Send your CV together with your preferred location, practice area, salary expectations and working arrangements.

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Candidate FAQs

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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Do you send out CVs to employers on a speculative basis?

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No, definitely not. We are an ethical recruitment agency and your personal data is exactly that – your personal data. We will only ever send your CV to a law firm or employer if you give us permission to. Every week we send out a new candidate update to over 7,000 law firms and employers on our database, but this is strictly anonymous and we include no identifying features of any candidates. A quick example of a typical entry is: “5 year PQE commercial property solicitor with extensive experience in private practice looking for a role in West London.”

From time to time we do work with candidates who want us to approach particular firms to see whether they would be interested in recruiting them, but this is done with consent and full anonymity initially. If you would like to talk through a recruitment plan with us please get in touch. We are very selective as to who we work with on this basis.

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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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