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…
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, 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…
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…
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…
PQE stands for ‘Post Qualification Experience’ (or equivalent for legal executives or non-qualified staff). NQ stands for ‘Newly Qualified’ (solicitors). NB: PQE is often indicated on job roles as a guide and it can be worth applying for roles still where PQE is indicated but does not quite fit your experience levels. However if a…
One – us! Registering with multiple agencies for permanent work can cause problems. If you are a conveyancing solicitor in Manchester, looking for positions in Manchester City Centre, there are about 50 firms you could apply to for work. If you register with 5 agencies, at least three of these may well send either your…
We are good at what we do; locating new opportunities for lawyers registered with us for work and filling vacancies for our clients. Ten Percent Legal Recruitment is unique; we were the first wholly online legal recruitment consultancy, established in 2000, and we concentrate specifically on solicitors and legal support staff in private practice and…
Yes we do. About 70% of our work is locum, ad hoc and interim cover, with 30% being permanent recruitment for law firms and in house legal departments. If you would like to find out about our specialist locum lawyer services please visit www.interimlawyers.co.uk – there is a full FAQ section on the site as…