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Sole Practitioners - how much do they earn?
in Careers Advice, Employers, Legal Profession, Salary Reviews by Jonathan Fagan

How much do Sole Practitioners Earn?

Reading Time: 2 minutesA recent law graduate has asked an extremely pertinent question regarding future career plans: “In your professional opinion, how much do sole practitioners (on the high street working in family/conveyancing) tend to make annually? Also more generally, would you say, despite the over supply of law graduates and the SRA’s soon to be new route…

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Guide to Locum Solicitors Hourly Rates of Pay September 2017

Reading Time: 2 minutesHourly Rates of Pay for Locum Solicitors and Legal Executives Although conveyancing rates increased over the last four weeks, we will now see a drop in hourly rates as we get closer to Christmas. September tends to remain fairly high as demand has traditionally still been strong. £35 per hour in Conveyancing is still the…

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in Careers Advice, Changing Jobs, Employers, Legal Profession, Salary Reviews, Staying in Your Job by Jonathan Fagan

Fake News – is there a Shortage of Conveyancing Locums vs Wills & Probate Locum Solicitors?

Reading Time: 3 minutesCandidate Shortages in Wills & Probate and Conveyancing – myths and legends As I write this brief article, I can reflect that I could probably have written the same article in any year between 2011 and 2017. In fact if you are reading this in 20 years’ time, and Donald Trump hasn’t ended the world…

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in Careers Advice, Changing Jobs, Employers, Legal Profession, Salary Reviews, Training Contracts, Pupillage and Work Experience by Jonathan Fagan

Questions to our Recruitment Consultants via our Chat Service

Reading Time: 3 minutesAsk a Recruitment Consultant – questions this month on our chat bot Questions sent to us via our new Chat service online, together with general career questions emailed across. We do our best to answer all queries, sometimes after a fairly lengthy delay if we are busy! Why is there a shortage of private client…

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Salary Reviews – how to avoid pay rises (and lose staff)

Reading Time: 2 minutesSalary reviews – how not to approach them – a guide for employers/partners Here are our top tips for salary reviews and avoiding any increases in salary. 1. Repeatedly postpone or cancel the salary review for up to 6 months. Top tip. 2. During the salary review continue to work whilst occasionally glancing up and…

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in Careers Advice, Employers, Legal Profession, Newly Qualified Solicitors, Salary Reviews by Jonathan Fagan

Salary Myths and the Legal Profession

Reading Time: 2 minutesSalary Myths and the Legal Profession The legal profession is plagued by salary myths. How many times have high street solicitors been speaking to acquaintances and informed that as they are a solicitor they must be earning loads of money, at least 6 figures? How many law students still start their degree course thinking that…

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in Careers Advice, Salary Reviews by Jonathan Fagan

Salary Levels for Lawyers

Reading Time: 2 minutesOne of the most common calls we get from solicitors, trainee solicitors, barristers and legal executives is “how much money should I be looking for?” Quite understandable, considering most lawyers do not work simply to help their clients, but to pay the mortgage! Most lawyers work in offices where each fee earner does not know…

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