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.
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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…
What Services Do You Offer Employers?
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:
What Services Do You Offer Candidates?
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…
Do You Offer Legal CV Advice?
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/
Do You Advise on Salary Levels for Solicitors?
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/
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 Assist UK Solicitors & Lawyers Looking for Legal Jobs Overseas?
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…
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…
Which areas of law do you cover?
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…
What is an accredited police station representative?
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…
Can you help overseas lawyers find legal jobs in the UK?
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…
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 Fees For Legal Recruitment?
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…
Do You Help with Legal Careers Advice?
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…
I am a Law Graduate Seeking Paralegal Work – Can You Assist?
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,…
I am a Law Graduate Seeking a Training Contract – Can You Assist?
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…
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…
What do PQE, NQ and QBE mean?
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…
How Many Recruitment Agencies should I Register With for Permanent Work?
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…
Why should I register with you as a candidate?
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…
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 are Headhunters and do you provide Headhunting Services?
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…
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…