Welcome to the Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment pages for Employers.
With our database of over 12,500 registered solicitors and legal executives, we have been providing recruitment services to law firms and in house legal departments across the UK since April 2000. Post your vacancy online, call 0800 246 5001 to speak to one of our consultants or email cv@ten-percent.co.uk.
We assist with the recruitment of permanent and locum solicitors, legal executives, legal cashiers, licensed conveyancers, law firm managers, legal secretaries, paralegals and fee earners. We help with all levels of roles, from sourcing junior fee earners through to recruiting into partnership roles and selling law firms.
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How Our Permanent Legal Recruitment Process Works
Tell us who you need to recruit. We help law firms and in-house teams move from a clear vacancy brief to candidate introductions, interviews and an agreed appointment.
1. Register the vacancy
Tell us the job title, location, practice area, salary range, working arrangements, required experience and preferred start date. A precise brief helps us identify lawyers whose experience and expectations match the role.
2. We review the brief
A legal recruitment consultant will review the vacancy and may contact you to clarify the essential requirements. We can discuss the proposed salary, candidate availability and whether the role is likely to attract applicants in the current market.
3. Candidate search and initial screening
We search our registered candidate database and may advertise the vacancy through appropriate legal job channels. Suitable candidates can be screened against the agreed requirements before their details are submitted. You can provide your preferred screening questions or ask us to conduct a general initial screening interview.
4. CVs and interviews
We send suitable candidate details to the employer with the candidate’s permission and assist with interview arrangements and communication. The employer decides whom to interview and appoint. Agree with us which checks we undertake and which remain with you, including identity, qualifications, references and right to work.
5. Offer and acceptance
We can communicate offers, proposed start dates and other agreed terms. The employment contract is issued directly by the employer. Introduction fees, payment dates and any instalment or rebate arrangements are governed by the applicable agreed terms.
Ready to recruit?
Register your vacancy online or contact us to discuss the role before submitting the details.
Other Services
| Agency Services (How we can help you) |
| Book a Locum |
| Buy or Sell a Solicitors Practice |
| Fees |
| Fee Sharing Roles |
| Legal Job Market Reports – monthly updates |
| Legal Recruitment News – our monthly newsletter |
| Other Services for Law Firms |
| Recruitment Advice Articles for Law Firms |
| Register a Vacancy (Locum or Permanent) |
| Senior Solicitor Recruitment |
| Sign Up for Weekly Candidate Update Emails |
| Templates – consultancy agreements, offer letters, timesheets etc.. |
| Terms and Conditions |
| Transcription & Translation Services |
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FAQ
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..