What Insurance Do You Hold?
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.
FAQ Category: General Information
How Many Solicitors Are On Your Database?
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.
Where Are You Located?
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.
Who Owns Ten Percent Legal Recruitment?
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…
Do You Donate 10% of Your Profits to Charity?
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…
Do You Work With London City Law Firms or Magic/Silver Circle Practices?
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…
Do You Handle In House Legal Jobs?
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…
Do You Assist with Legal Jobs at Local Authorities?
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…
What is a Fee Earner?
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…
What are Your Ethical Policies?
We abhor discrimination of any kind – this has been a major problem over the years in the UK legal profession in certain firms (age, sex, race etc..). Things have improved in recent times and questions from firms to recruiters such as ‘is the candidate likely to want to take maternity leave in the next…
Why do legal recruitment consultants exist?
Good question! Partly because there has traditionally been a nationwide shortage of a certain standard of lawyer, and secondly, because finding a new opportunity is not often simply a case of looking at online job boards. At any one time, there may be 6 or 7 vacancies for a particular area of the country, but…
What is the difference between recruitment consultants and agencies?
There is very little difference between recruitment consultants and recruitment agencies, except that ‘consultants’ tend to operate in the high end market and agencies at the lower end. For example, if you ran a warehouse and wanted to recruit a logistics manager you would probably use an agency calling itself a recruitment consultancy and if…
What is a Legal Job?
Legal jobs are usually defined as any job in a law firm, in house legal department or local authority/government setting. We help law firms and in house legal departments fill vacant legal jobs. These can include anything from a partner/solicitor through to a receptionist, legal secretary or general fee earner, although we tend to concentrate…
What are Legal Recruitment Consultants?
Legal recruitment consultants are experts at identifying, sourcing and recruiting suitable candidates for legal jobs in law firms and in house legal departments. Our company has over 50 years of combined professional experience handling permanent and locum legal recruitment roles for our clients, most of whom return to us regularly to assist with new roles…
Do you Assist with Locum and Permanent Legal Recruitment?
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…
Who are you?
Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment is a specialist online legal recruitment consultancy based in the UK and working with solicitors firms and in house legal departments to source legal staff. We have a database of over 12,500 solicitors and legal executives, and also assist with legal cashiers, paralegals, managers and support staff. Uniquely we donate 10% of…