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 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:
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. 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…
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…
Headhunters are legal recruitment consultants who either source well-regarded solicitors via their network or simply cold call as many as possible via a LinkedIn Premium account (depending on your level of cynicism) to try to persuade them to change firms with offers of high salary or better terms. Most recruitment consultants offer a headhunting service…
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…