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.
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Getting into Law
Reading Time: 4 minutesIts that time of year again when we get telephone calls from potential lawyers and their parents, asking how to get into law.. Article by Ten-Percent Legal on getting work experience.
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Returning to law, changing fields of law or starting out in law – what do I need to do?
Reading Time: 4 minutesReturning to law, changing fields of law or starting out in law – what do I need to do? Get work experience. Article by Ten Percent Legal.
I have been awarded a third class degree in law and I am having a crisis. Help!
Reading Time: 3 minutesI have been awarded a third class degree in law and I am having a crisis. Help! Article from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment. Don’t panic.
Getting into commercial work after doing a high street training contract, is it possible?
Reading Time: 3 minutesGetting into commercial work after doing a high street training contract, is it possible? Article from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment and Jonathan Fagan MD.
Help – I Can’t Get a Training Contract – What Am I Doing Wrong?
Reading Time: 5 minutesHelp to get a training contract – advice from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment, specialists for the legal profession since 2000.
Should I go back and re-sit my A levels (DDD) – I want to join a Magic Circle law firm
Reading Time: 3 minutesShould I go back and re-sit my A levels (DDD) in order to get into a Magic Circle law firm? Advice from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment.
CV Review – Commercial Paralegal with Experience
Reading Time: 5 minutesCV review for a paralegal with commercial law experience. A free review service from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment.
My A levels are BDE and I have a couple of low percentages in my second year of a law degree. Should I give up now?
Reading Time: 4 minutesStudent with low A levels and poor degree grades – should they even bother trying to establish themselves in the legal profession or whether they have scuppered their chances with their grades and need to look elsewhere.
Does my first year at university matter?
Reading Time: 3 minutesDo 1st year university results matter? An article with full advice from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment with particular emphasis on law students.
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…
A third class degree and re-entering the law
Reading Time: 2 minutesA graduate has recently written to us to ask us for advice on what to do with a third class degree and a potential legal career. The graduate finished at university in September 2017 with a third class law degree and his query to us also stated the fact that he had not got any…
Childcare Solicitors – what do they do and how do I become one?
Reading Time: 4 minutesThere are a lot of different terms used for the work of a childcare solicitor. You will often see them described as solicitors with care proceedings experience, solicitors who do publicly funded family law work (just about the only thing left now that is publicly funded is care work), social services family lawyer, local authority…
How to Work as a Lawyer in the UK – top tips
Reading Time: 4 minutesHere are the Ten Percent Legal Recruitment top tips for becoming a lawyer in the UK. Firstly, bear in mind that there are quite a few different types of lawyer working in the UK, including barristers, solicitors, “non-qualified fee earners”, legal executive, licensed conveyancer, will writers and paralegals. In case it assists, a “non-qualified fee…
What is the most boring area of law?
Reading Time: 2 minutes“I don’t want to do that type of law, it’s boring” Unnamed Mental Health Law Paralegal, December 2018. This topic of conversation could keep law students and lawyers going for years to come, but today we had an email from a paralegal who was enquiring about a job. He asked what specific area of law…
Can A Level grades affect your Legal Career forever?
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe have had a query this week from a Year 13 student awaiting A level grades – can poor A Level Results affect any chances of a legal career? The quick and honest answer, and something perhaps relevant to qualified solicitors with many years PQE even, and an answer you will rarely hear from HR…
Ask a Recruitment Consultant – questions to our chatbot
Reading Time: 3 minutesAsk a Recruitment Consultant – questions this month on our chat bot Questions sent to us via our 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! Q: I am currently studying to become a solicitor…
Paralegals are more likely not to turn up for Job Interviews than any other staff. Why?
Reading Time: 2 minutesOut of 5 job interviews arranged for paralegals and junior fee earners, we estimate that 1 candidate will not turn up. For solicitors and legal executives we think the figure is closer to 1 in 20. Why? Here are our top reasons. 1. It is much easier to apply for a job than it is…
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Questions for our Recruitment Consultants
Reading Time: 2 minutesQ: I wonder if you have any advice or comment on the following. a sole practitioner has been asked by a lender panel to give details of a locum who the principal would have on call if the worst happened and the firm was left without a solicitor at short notice. Do you have any…
Should I take my A Levels again to get better grades after finishing my degree?
Reading Time: 2 minutesAsk a Recruitment Consultant – questions this month on our chat bot Questions sent to us via our 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! Q: I graduated from university with a 1st class…
Ask a Legal Recruitment Consultant
Reading Time: 2 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! Hello – can you find me a job?…
Ask a Recruitment Consultant – questions to our Chatbot
Reading Time: 2 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! Our New Chatbot Hi. My Australian degree has…
Ask a Recruitment Consultant – questions to our Chatbot
Reading Time: 2 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! Do you think it is still worth becoming…
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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…
Determined Law Graduate looking for a break
Reading Time: 3 minutesIf you have a third class law degree, is it the end of your career? Hi, I am writing to seek some advice with regards to my current career situation. I have achieved 3 A-Levels at BBC. I have completed my LLB Law degree but achieved a third due to unforeseen and unfortunate personal and…
What does a Sports Lawyer do?
Reading Time: 3 minutesI want to do Sports Law in a solicitors firm We get a number of enquiries from students and graduates which go something like: “Hello, I want to be a sports lawyer, have you got anything?” or “hi – I’ve done a bit of family law but find it boring. I want to be a…
What does a Media Lawyer do?
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhat does a Media Lawyer do? When I grow up I want to be a media lawyer and go round slapping injunctions on people. It sounds sooo exciting! Hmm. OK – so you want to be a media solicitor but what does one do in practice? If you need to read this article, one thing…
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Human Rights Lawyers – do they exist?
Reading Time: 6 minutesWhen I grow up I want to be a human rights lawyer (and marry George Clooney) We’ve been meaning to write this article for ages and I was only jogged into action by a long train journey and a recent spate of enquiries! So many teenagers and young adults have the idea that they want…
I’ve had a Training Contract offer from a small High Street Law Firm – should I take it?
Reading Time: 4 minutesWe had a request in for legal careers advice from an LPC graduate who has been offered a training contract in a smaller sized law firm somewhere in the UK who do a lot of family law (plus other areas). His questions are as follows: I am unsure whether to take the training contract or…
Mitigating Circumstances – do they ever exist and do you need to mention them on a CV or at a job interview?
Reading Time: 3 minutesNo. Mitigating circumstances do not exist. Ever. Well, hardly ever. “Mitigating circumstances” is probably one of the most irritating phrases ever to come out of university careers advice centres. What a fantastic excuse for rubbish grades. We have just had a CV in from someone using the term when they got a 2.1 from a…