Returning to the Legal Profession After 20+ Years of Absence – Is It Possible?
Reading Time: 3 minutesReturning to the legal profession, getting a foot in the door. Article from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment, specialists for solicitor recruitment.
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What Does Pro Rata Mean For Salary Payments?
Reading Time: 2 minutesPro rata, what does it mean. Article from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment including the formula for calculating pro rata pay.
Why Should We Pay You a Fee Just to Send an Email Out?
Reading Time: 4 minutesWhat do legal recruitment consultants do, article of advantages and disadvantages of using a legal recruitment consultant from Ten Percent.
Trends in Legal Recruitment: What Law Firms and In-House Legal Departments Need to Know in 2024
Reading Time: 5 minutesThis article explores the key trends in legal recruitment for the upcoming year, referencing global influences and focusing on their implications within the UK. We also highlight how platforms like www.ten-percent.co.uk and www.interimlawyers.co.uk are pivotal in navigating these shifts, offering robust solutions in permanent and locum legal recruitment, respectively.
Four Day Working Weeks – Can They Work?
Reading Time: 7 minutes4 day working weeks – how do they work, what are the key considerations. Article from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment on 4 day working weeks.
Horrible Bosses and the January Phenomenon of Staff Giving Notice
Reading Time: 7 minutesHorrible bosses cause an exodus of staff every January, which is easily preventable by not being a horrible boss! Top tips for being a nicer person, a horrible bosses test and advice on not losing staff in January each year.
How does the economic cycle affect locum & permanent work?
Reading Time: 4 minutesHow does the economic cycle affect locum & permanent work? Article from Jonathan Fagan, MD at Ten Percent Legal Recruitment on the typical annual economic cycle and its effect on recruitment.
Making strategic career decisions for lawyers – create a career plan
Reading Time: 3 minutesAdvice on career plans for solicitors from Jonathan Fagan, Director of Ten Percent Legal Recruitment.
International lawyers looking for work in the UK – can Ten Percent Legal help?
Reading Time: 2 minutesCan we help international lawyers? An article by Ten Percent Legal Recruitment.
Changing from conveyancing to a life of crime – a good idea?
Reading Time: 3 minutesChanging from conveyancing to crime – a good idea? Advice for solicitors changing practice areas from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment.
Thinking of a career in law? Article for 15-17 year olds
Reading Time: 7 minutesGetting into law – article for 15-17 year olds looking to start a legal career, from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment.
Locums – get paid promptly or else
Reading Time: 3 minutesLocums – get paid promptly, or else – an article by Ten Percent Legal and Interim Lawyers for locums and would be locums,
I’m at a crossroads in my career, I’m 10 years qualified, and I’m fed up in my job. What should I do?
Reading Time: 4 minutesFed up with your legal career? An article packed full of advice for solicitors thinking about changing jobs or making a career move. Ten Percent Legal
Can you help me revolutionise the legal profession?
Reading Time: 3 minutesCan you help me set up a law firm to change the legal profession? Article from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment and Jonathan Fagan.
How much does it cost to become a partner of a law firm?
Reading Time: 4 minutesCost of becoming a law firm partner. Article by Ten Percent Legal Recruitment and Jonathan Fagan Business Brokers.
What field of law has the best paid jobs?
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhich fields of law pay best? Article from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment for law students and lawyers looking at choosing law areas.
I’ve been working from an office for 40 years, so why can’t others?
Reading Time: 4 minutesOne of the key issues in relation to offering flexible hours and remote working is the attitude of well established law firm owners, particularly in the smaller sized SME sector, where the recruiting partner or manager is very often the owner of the practice.
Can a lawyer be a millionaire?
Reading Time: 2 minutesCan a lawyer be a millionaire? Article by Jonathan Fagan, MD of Ten Percent Legal Recruitment and a non-practising solicitor.
Rewards & Benefits to Employees in the Legal Sector
Reading Time: 5 minutesOur experiences (as business owners and legal recruiters) of providing rewards and benefits to our employees and those we see in the legal profession.
Is Age a Factor on My CV?
Reading Time: 3 minutesArticle outlining experience of age discrimination from a legal recruitment perspective. Jonathan Fagan of Ten Percent Legal Recruitment.
I am available for locum work but I don’t have my own limited company – will I have to work on a PAYE basis?
Reading Time: 2 minutesI am available for locum work but I don’t have my own limited company – will I have to work on a PAYE basis? No. An article by Ten Percent Legal Recruitment.
What is the Difference Between an Employment Business and an Employment Agency?
Reading Time: 3 minutesDifference between Employment Agency and Employment Business. Article by Jonathan Fagan, Ten Percent Legal Recruitment.
Locums Reluctant to Take Office Based Roles since July 2020
Reading Time: < 1 minutelocums are now very reluctant to take assignments that involve any or all of the time being based in an office rather than working remotely. An article by Interim Lawyers Legal Recruitment.
Conveyancing Lawyers – has your job been affected by the lockdown?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteTen Percent would like to build a picture of the current situation regarding residential conveyancing across the UK legal job market. We hope that the data collected will assist firms and candidates alike with decision making over the months to come.
Locums – have you ever been asked about PII?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteTen Percent Legal would like to build a picture of the current situation across the UK legal job market for locums. We hope that the data collected will assist locums generally in the future.
Business meetings – a thing of the past and is it normal to continue working during them?
Reading Time: 2 minutesBusiness meetings – a waste of time in the post-coronavirus world? And is it normal for someone to work on their laptop throughout a meeting? Is Zoom the future?
Can a Solicitor be a Millionaire – recent question
Reading Time: < 1 minuteCan a solicitor be a millionaire – advice on whether it is possible. If you dont bother reading the article – yes it is! But probably not as a solicitor, more as a business person.
What type of law pays the most?
Reading Time: 4 minutesRule of Thumb for Pay A simple rule of thumb is that corporate and commercial law fields pay well, personal service law fields pay not so well. Corporate and commercial solicitors can be earning £100k and upwards, personal service law fields (aka high street solicitors) earn up to around £50k in most cases. Local authority…
Recruitment agents hardly do anything other than send CVs – why should we pay you?
Reading Time: 3 minutesToday we had an email from a law firm who owe us a reasonable amount of money and following a letter before action we received a detailed response from one of the directors at the solicitors firm explaining his understanding of the fee and how it should be paid. Part of this explanation and discussion…
Restrictive Covenants – recent Supreme Court ruling
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor years we have very patiently advised clients contacting us to request solicitors with a following, ie the ability to bring their own work and files to a new firm, that there is the small matter of a Restrictive Covenant ever present in most contracts of employment. As anyone knows, you cannot simply walk out…