The Ten Percent Foundation is a charitable trust established in 2003 in the UK to process the 10% donations from the Ten Percent Group of companies. There are three trustees, all volunteers, and the charity has no expenses. Any administration costs are met by the group of companies other than our bank charges (we use…
Ten Percent Legal Recruitment was established in Leicester in April 2000, before relocating near to Mold in North Wales in 2003. Two of the original founders, Jonathan & Clare Fagan, remain directors & shareholders.
The Ten Percent Group (www.tenpercentgroup.com) is a group of companies and websites all with a common purpose; we donate 10% of net profits to charity on an annual basis. Our first company was established in May 2000 and we have been donating 10% of net profits ever since. Since 2003 this has been done via…
No, we are legal recruitment consultants. If you drop us an email we are usually happy to recommend a firm of solicitors who specialise in a particular field of law and are based locally to you.
Yes we do, via our sister site Jonathan Fagan Business Brokers Limited. We have been involved in the sale, merger & acquisition of law firms and accountancy practices for over 20 years. Our company assists with retirement, valuations, exit strategy (you are never too young to start planning), mergers, sales and acquisitions. There are always…
No, definitely not. We are an ethical recruitment agency and your personal data is exactly that – your personal data. We will only ever send your CV to a law firm or employer if you give us permission to. Every week we send out a new candidate update to over 7,000 law firms and employers…
Once you send us over your CV we will register you on our system and keep you updated with any new vacancies we think may be of interest. Your data is stored securely on our systems and we are Cyber Essentials Accredited, which is an annual government rated assessment for ensuring companies and organisations keep…
We take data security very seriously. All your data is either stored on our own systems in North Wales, behind a Draytek firewall and protected by Panda Adaptive Defense 360 antivirus software, or in the cloud with our client management system provider – presently Voyager Infinity, part of Ikiru People. Voyager Software is securely operated…
We are specialist contingency search recruitment consultants for the legal profession in the UK. This means that law firms and in house legal departments send us their legal vacancies, and if we are successful in finding a suitable candidate who subsequently accepts a job offer, we get paid a fee. We concentrate mainly on qualified…
We have professional indemnity insurance, public liability insurance, employers liability insurance and cyber insurance all in place. For copies of our current certificates please get in touch.
We have over 12,500 solicitors and legal executives registered with us, mostly on a passive basis (ie they are not necessarily looking for a role at the present time. Most of our recruitment comes from this resource, but we do also advertise roles out on various job boards.
We have offices in Mold, London, Derby, Brighton, Bristol, Coventry and Glasgow. Our team work on a fully remote basis, but we are always happy to travel to meet with clients where required.
Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment is a trading name of Ten-Percent.co.uk Limited, a limited company privately owned by Clare & Jonathan Fagan. Clare and Jonathan founded the business in May 2000. Ten-Percent.co.uk Limited also owns Interim Lawyers Locum Legal Recruitment and Ten Percent Financial Recruitment. The company is part of a group of websites and companies including…
We provide specialist legal recruitment services, usually on a contingency basis. Most of our recruitment is done from our database of candidates, carefully built up over the last 25 years. Our services include:
Every candidate registering with us will receives a personal service from our consultants. In the last 25 years over 12,500 solicitors have registered with us for vacancy updates and assistance with job seeking. We can advise on improving CVs where necessary, but we do not provide standalone legal careers advice (something we did offer until…
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/
Yes we do. We publish an updated list every month – take a look at our salary review reports here – https://ten-percent.co.uk/salary-reviews/
Yes we do. In our first year (2000-2001) we donated £500 to a local childrens’ hospice in Leicestershire and we haven’t looked back since. To date we have donated more than £250,000 to charity. We established a charitable trust called the Ten-Percent Foundation in 2002 and all our donations are distributed via this trust. The…
Yes, although only very occasionally and in particular circumstances. We have worked with law firms in offshore locations before such as Bermuda, the Falkland Islands and the Cayman Islands. We will not work with any law firms (particularly the Middle East) who are unwilling to provide evidence of an equal opportunity policy that is applied…
We would love to, but they always seem to want to give lots of their money to very large recruitment agencies in order to fulfill their vacancies! Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment has traditionally worked with the small-medium sized solicitors’ practices, whether on the high street or niche commercial, although we have worked with some giant multi-national…
Yes we do. We have a specialist department for handling in house legal jobs, whether this is for general counsel, solicitors to assist counsel, specialist in house legal teams or legal department managers. We have regular dealings with in house legal departments across the UK in a wide range of companies from large multinational businesses…
Yes we do – it tends to be locum work rather than permanent recruitment. In recent times a lot of local authorities have decided to outsource part of the function of their HR departments to large RPO (Recruitment Process Outsourcing) companies who operate a list of recruiters to supply staff. We suspect the HR people…
We cover all types of law if we get instructions from firms and in house legal departments. Our main areas where we do most business are with small-medium sized solicitors firms either on the high street, or in niche commercial practices in the City of London or regions. Although we have links and occasional dealings…
The police station accreditation scheme was introduced in the 1990’s in England and Wales, after solicitors were accused of sending their secretaries down to the police station to sit in interviews with murder suspects. A particularly notorious case was in Cardiff when a secretary/receptionist sent by a solicitor to observe an interview sat through questioning…
Very unlikely. UK law firms virtually always want UK law experience and will not look at lawyers from Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Pakistan or Malaysia who do not already have UK experience, even though UK lawyers making the move the other way are quite often in demand in some of these countries. If…
In the legal profession, a fee earner is someone who earns/generates fees for the law firm they work for. A solicitor generates fees for a law firm by doing something on a client’s file. So meeting a client, preparing a document, writing a letter, attending court are all billable types of work and this makes…
Our legal recruitment fees for permanent and locum roles are outlined here. We believe in transparency when it comes to fees and we publish ours online in full. We do not negotiate on fees and if you find agencies cheaper elsewhere we are very pleased for you! Uniquely, solicitors’ firms and in house legal department…
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…
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,…
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…