Welcome to the Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment page for Hampshire. We have been busy in the Hampshire area for over 10 years now, both for locum and permanent work. If you would like to contact us for further information about legal jobs please either view our vacancy database, or email us at cv@tenpercent.co.uk.
Hampshire – provincial backwater or the place to be?
Hampshire itself is the third largest shire county in England, and includes a wide variety of towns, cities and villages, all set in beautiful countryside. The main areas for legal work are around Portsmouth, Southampton, Basingstoke, Aldershot, Winchester and Andover.
Law firms range from large offices of regional firms through to smaller high street practices and specialist LAA funded firms dealing solely with crime and family law etc.. There remain a large number of traditional firms with 2-5 partners on high streets in smaller towns and suburbs, and some growth in the more modern industrial park practice types.
We have found in recent years a large number of conveyancing posts, personal injury positions (almost all down to expansion by a small number of firms), commercial property, the usual range of commercial fields including construction, general company commercial and PFI, crime and family law.
For full facts and figures about Hampshire, click here to read the Hampshire County Council Profile of Hampshire.
Information about Hampshire:
1. It is 75 miles from Southampton to Central London
2. It takes 1 hour 40 mins on the train from Portsmouth to London Waterloo.
Average house prices – Rightmove source:
Detached properties had an average sold price of £469,906 and flats averaged at £176,655. Hampshire, with an overall average price of £297,521 was more expensive than nearby Isle Of Wight (£222,589), but was cheaper than Berkshire (£395,803) and West Sussex (£340,612).
The content of the careers centre is intended as guidance only. It has been written by Jonathan Fagan LLM, the managing director of Ten-Percent and group of legal recruitment websites. Jonathan Fagan is a non-practising solicitor, author of the Complete Guide to Writing a Legal CV and the Guide to Interviews for Lawyers. He has recruited for law firms across the UK and overseas in all shapes and sizes. If you have any questions that we have not covered above, please contact us by calling 0207 127 4343, or emailing us at cv@tenpercent.co.uk