August 2007 - holiday season and wettest summer for years almost over
Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment is made up of a number of different websites and you can register to improve your prospects via any of our sites. Our sites simply offer law jobs, and we are totally committed to legal recruitment - we operate www.ten-percent.co.uk, our main site, www.jonathanfagan.co.uk (property, wills, probate, litigation), www.conveyancing-jobs.co.uk, www.crime-solicitor.co.uk (crime - duty solicitors, police station accredited reps and NQ), www.eastmidlandslegal.co.uk, www.yorkshire-legal-recruitment.co.uk, www.hampshirelegal.co.uk, www.homecountieslegal.co.uk and www.chancerylane.co.uk (UK corporate and commercial solicitor recruitment by email). All our sites are an integral part of our legal recruitment group. We also offer a locum service for assignments of more than 1 month at www.ten-percent.co.uk/locum.htm
We remain at the forefront of online recruitment, and currently feature fairly prominently on Google, Yahoo and MSN Search in the top 10 at most times. We retain our commitment to donate 10% of our annual net profits to charity.
Registration of New Posts
We have found that new vacancies have dropped slightly, as partners of law firms go off on their holidays and find better things to do, such as watch or play cricket!
General Outlook for Permanent and Temporary Recruitment
For permanent placements the fields of law are shifting, although I have looked back and discovered that we are still placing crime solicitors, despite previous gloom and doom - it seems that London has become a desert for recruitment thanks to the redundancies, but everywhere else seems to have the occasional post.
Conveyancing is good - lots of work on both the temporary and permanent side coming in - although again London central not moving very fast. Other areas appear to have a bit of a shortage.
Personal injury - not very good, although commercial and civil litigation have picked up slightly.
In the temporary fields - TP Locums - www.ten-percent.co.uk/locum.htm - is finding increased numbers of assignments out there as firms struggle to attract new blood into firms, and are finding it easier to take locums for contract work and then ditch them when any source of work dries up.
It remains the same as always at NQ level - just not getting the vacancies into us in the same quantity - there are firms out there interviewing at present, and there seem to be increases across the board in the amount of work available. More and more of our recruitment is now focused more on experience rather than qualification.
Commercial litigation remains a barren wasteland, although we have had a couple of commercial litigation posts into us now, including an NQ one (second since 2004!).
Commercial property remains busy, and there is a real lack of any candidates in that field at times. Property litigation as well seems to be the 'in' thing, and I expect this to increase in time, as more and more issues arise for the new generation of landlords out there.
Age Discrimination and Newly Qualified Solicitors
Things have not changed very much at all - I rue the days spent reading all the legislation and attending courses - what a waste of time! Our agency has never discriminated on any front, and I have been happy to put forward 70 year old lawyers for NQ jobs if they wish me to. Firms can do as they please really - if they want to ignore an application they will do, but just dress it up as something else. Still lots of ads for NQ-3 years PQE solicitors, which firms of specialist employment lawyers were advising recruiters to cease doing. I have noticed an increase in firms taking on older solicitors, which is good.
Conveyancing Jobs
Conveyancing - this has now picked up, and we are getting requests for CVs at all levels, although still not the mad mayhem it was a few years ago. The market is still improving for conveyancing - but salary levels have not increased very much. The Home Information Packs are a great unknown and sound a complete waste of time, let alone a scam to create yet another service industry that isnt really needed, and some firms are a bit wary about what the effect will be of these.. Click here for advice for NQ solicitors There remains a shortage of conveyancers in and around Leeds at present..
Crime Work
I have been writing essays on crime recruitment, but in short, we have now withdrawn all advertising for crime solicitors in London, and have started to avoid the work from the candidate end wherever possible to a certain extent. I am still getting people registering at high speed, but a few weeks ago we sent all the firms with registered vacancies with us in London (over 80) an email to ask if recruiting, and 2 got back to say yes! Most indicated that they were making redundancies or cutting salaries to survive, and I just view the whole thing with despair. What most people forget is that behind the rhetoric of loaded crime solicitors remains an army of completely committed workers getting paid less than milkmen to do some of the most undesirable jobs in the country for no thanks whatsoever, but at the same time performing one of the most vital civil liberty functions in the legal profession. I have noticed registrations from NQ solicitors asking for 15-17k salaries, and this perhaps is the most worrying aspect of all...
One glimmer of light remains the sudden emphasis on higher rights in job applications, as firms are currently starting to see that getting into the higher courts is one way they can increase their turnover, and I suspect barristers are definitely starting to look over their shoulders...
www.crime-solicitor.co.uk, www.ten-percent.co.uk - both useful resources for further recruitment information.
High Street Fields
This year the key fields of law on the high street side so far remain crime (outside London), wills & probate, conveyancing and commercial property. Commercial litigation and personal injury remain extremely difficult to source work for on the NQ front and in fact we still get many litigators contacting us about each litigation post coming up in London. Personal injury has picked up a little bit in recent weeks, with posts being registered in different areas.
Litigation posts as a whole appear to be coming back into fashion after a few years of nothing arising. We have continued to pick up these in the last month or so.
In terms of geographical areas, we remain very strong in Hampshire, the South Coast, Kent, East Anglia, Essex, the South West, East & West Midlands, North Wales, the North West including Manchester, Chester, Liverpool, Yorkshire and Cumbria.
Conveyancing
Conveyancing jobs are increasing dramatically as the property market carries on. The Law Society Gazette has had a number of firms across the UK advertising recently, and we have noticed a continued marked increase in responses to our updates to firms for conveyancing lawyers with experience and also at NQ level. We have struggled to find conveyancing locums for example, when opportunities are plentiful on the whole.
Most other areas apart from London remain unaffected for anyone with 1 year PQE upwards, and interviews have been arranged across the UK for conveyancers with 2 years PQE upwards with no alterations to the norm at this time of year.
Crime - www.crime-solicitor.co.uk
Wills & Probate
Wills & Probate has been an interesting field. Large number of firms looking as they have seen the potential in dealing with IHT work and trusts, which is inevitable following recent house price boom. Quite a lot of vacancies have also come into us from other areas in this field, with increasing numbers in the North West. East Anglia and the Home Counties are doing well at present, together with the South Coast, and the East Midlands is resurgent. London posts remain few and far between. Try visiting www.jonathanfagan.co.uk if interested in receiving further details for private client posts.
Commercial Property
There remain posts in almost every town for commercial property solicitors from NQ upwards. Firms have almost taken the collective decision that this is going to be the next boom area, and it is time to increase the size of their departments. Commercial property solicitors are in demand for recruitment in every area, and it seems even smaller practices are trying to get in on the action. After the last mini property blip a few years ago, a similar occurrence happened in the legal job market - the commercial property sector boomed. Commercial property solicitors outside of London can contact us (NQ still awkward in some areas) and we would be confident of securing a number of interviews in most areas of the UK, with plenty of the medium to large regional practices looking to take on staff.
Family Law
Not that mad at all - still posts there, but not that many - Carter has caught up I think... - although outside of London anything above 3 years PQE and if possible panel applications in already is going to result in interviews. East side of London currently poor. This remains a poor area to be looking at NQ level though - if you are a panel member outside the North East (which historically has been very poor for family law recruitment), we would be reasonably confident of securing a good number of legal job interviews for you - the south west is a particular hotspot - Plymouth firms in particular.
Company Commercial and other Commercial fields - www.chancerylane.co.uk
Chancery Lane is our corporate & commercial recruitment specialist arm and you can get details at www.chancerylane.co.uk. The site specialises in the range of commercial fields usually associated with London City and regional practices - corporate commercial, mergers & acquisitions, shipping, competition, tax, banking, corporate finance, IT and IP, commercial property and construction. We hope to be expanding rapidly, and as this happens we will increase the amount of information we include in this section.
Most areas have vacancies which have gone unfilled for a long time for senior and mid level company commercial solicitors not expecting London City firm salaries. Company commercial in the home counties quite popular as usual (3 years PQE upwards). Register with www.homecountieslegal.co.uk to stay up to date.
The Ten-Percent site attracts solicitors and legal executives from across the UK, who register both with us and our specialist sites for our legal recruitment services. Although we deal with most legal jobs, including a subsidiary site for permanent legal secretaries (www.tp-secretaries.co.uk) most of our posts are for solicitors and ILEX candidates.
Our sister sites www.crime-solicitor.co.uk, and www.jonathanfagan.co.uk are usually fairly busy (the latter dealing with conveyancing and private client recruitment). Particular hotspots are detailed below.
Contact for Work
Contact Ten-Percent and register for our jobfinder service . You can contact Jonathan Fagan directly on 0845 644 3923 or at jbfagan@tenpercent.co.uk if you would like to discuss career opportunities. You can also read his blog, Legal Recruitment.
We can provide you with regular updates of vacancies and firms across our entire family of websites. www.jonathanfagan.co.uk for 1-5 year PQEs in conveyancing, litigation or private client legal recruitment, commercial work at www.chancerylane.co.uk or try our other regional sites www.yorkshire-legal-recruitment.co.uk or www.homecountieslegal.co.uk, www.eastmidlandslegal.co.uk
You can also view our selection site at www.lawyer-recruitment.co.uk
New legal job vacancies into us in the last few weeks are as follows: please click here for our full vacancy database
Recent Vacancies (in since our last report)
Any interest, please drop us an email to jobs@tenpercent.co.uk, quoting the ref. no and attaching a CV.
3398 Conveyancing lawyer sought by Manchester practice - would be heading the department. Manchester, North West Conveyancing
3397 Conveyancing solicitor or executive possibly with another field sought by firm in Westbury, Wiltshire. Old established practice. Westbury, Wiltshire, South West Conveyancing
3396 Experienced non-qualified fee earner sought - whether a secretary wanting to step up or an existing paralegal, to deal with a mix of private and publicly funded family law work. Crowborough, Sussex, South Coast Family
3395 Company commercial solicitor sought by Exeter firm - all levels considered Exeter, Devon, South West Company Commercial
3394 Crime solicitor - duty solicitor qualified - sought to join Cornwall practice. Cornwall, South West Crime
3393 Private client lawyer sought to join personal estate planning team. Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire, South East Wills & Probate
3392 Commercial property solicitor sought by Devon based firm to deal with expanding workload that includes SMEs, leasehold, developer clients etc.. Devon, South West Commercial Property
3391 Commercial property solicitor sought by central Nottingham firm at assistant level. Nottingham, East Midlands Commercial Property
3390 One of the few remaining LSC funded firms for civil litigation and PI has been in touch to register a post for an experienced solicitor to deal with a mix of LSC and privately funded litigation work. Tunbridge Wells, Kent, South East Civil Litigation, Personal Injury
3389 commercial litigation solicitor sought at two levels - first one on contract at a fairly senior level, the second a recently qualified commercial litigation solicitor. Beckenham, Kent, South East Commercial Litigation
3388 Private client lawyer sought to head department of medium sized practice in Cambridge. Cambridge, East Anglia Wills & Probate
3387 PI post in Southport with medium sized practice. Southport, Merseyside, North West Personal Injury
3386 Liverpool suburb firm seek a commercial and residential conveyancing solicitor - all levels considered. Liverpool, Merseyside, North West Commercial Property, Conveyancing
3385 Conveyancing & commercial property solicitor sought by central Liverpool firm. Liverpool, Merseyside, North West Conveyancing, Commercial Property
3384 Crime solicitor sought on full time basis in Hereford - police station accreditation or soon to be essential, with court work also. Hereford, Herefordshire, West Midlands Crime
3383 Litigation solicitor sought by Plymouth firm rapidly expanding of larger size. Will be dealing with a varied caseload, which will include property litigation. Will need to be IT literate and with good experience. Plymouth, Devon, South West Commercial litigation, Property Litigation
3382 Private client or residential conveyancing solicitor sought by Folkestone firm. Partnership prospects. Folkestone, Kent, South Coast Wills & Probate, Conveyancing
3381 Company commercial solicitor or lawyer to work in Birmingham on a part time basis, working about 2 days per week. General company commercial post. Birmingham, West Midlands Company commercial
3380 Company commercial solicitor sought by Peterborough firm. Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, East Anglia Company Commercial
3379 Commercial property solicitor sought by Cambridge firm with reasonable experience. Cambridge, East Anglia Commercial Property
3378 Private client lawyer sought by Lytham St Annes firm - full supervision and support provided. St Annes, Blackpool, Lancashire, North West Wills & Probate
3377 Conveyancing solicitor sought by central Bristol practice. Bristol, South West Conveyancing
3376 Wills & probate solicitor sought at assistant level (will be helping in a department) with opportunities to deal with overseas work as well. Medium sized international law firm. Taxation and trusts work also. Other vacancies for a conveyancing secretary, accounts clerk and bookkeeper. Central London Accounts Clerk, Book Keeper, Conveyancing Secretary, Wills & Probate
3375 Conveyancing solicitor, legal executive or licensed conveyancer sought by central London practice in EC1. Looking for someone to develop the residential conveyancing work coming into the commercial practice, and expand further. Good prospects. Central London Conveyancing
3374 Commercial Litigation solicitor sought with good experience by Derby firm of medium size. Derby, East Midlands Commercial Litigation
3373 Conveyancing solicitor or executive sought by Redcar firm. Redcar, Cleveland, North East Conveyancing
3372 Smaller sized practice seek a solicitor to join and assist with privately funded immigration or other field (if following in other field). Enfield, North London, Middlesex, South East Immigration, Conveyancing, Litigation
3371 Licensed Conveyancer sought in the Oxfordshire area to join a new firm of licensed conveyancers set up. Oxfordshire, South East Conveyancing
3370 Conveyancing Personal Moving Consultants sought by somewhat innovative online operation based in Richmond, Surrey Richmond, Surrey, South East Conveyancing
3369 Conveyancing solicitor sought by central Bristol firm of small-medium size. Bristol, South West Conveyancing
3368 Solicitor to deal with a mix of family and civil litigation matters near Cambridge sought. All levels considered. Cambridge, East Anglia Family, Civil Litigation
3367 Commercial litigation sought by Somerset practice in market town - main areas are employment and commercial litigation, with property disputes, estate litigation. Somerset, South West Commercial Litigation
3366 Conveyancing post for a solicitor or executive in Darlington. Darlington, County Durham, North East Conveyancing
3365 Company commercial solicitor sought by Ashton under Lyne firm. Ashton under Lyne, Lancashire, North West Company Commercial
3364 Conveyancing solicitor sought by Hoylake firm on the Wirral. Hoylake, Wirral, Cheshire, Merseyside, North West Conveyancing
3363 Company commercial solicitor sought by Stockton on Tees firm of medium size Stockton on Tees, Teesside, North East Company Commercial
3362 Conveyancing post in Middlesbrough with a medium sized firm. Middlesbrough, Teesside, North East Conveyancing
3361 Conveyancing position in St Helens with a medium sized practice. St Helens, Lancashire, North West Conveyancing
3360 Crime post in Newbury with a medium sized practice. Wanting someone coming up to or already a duty solicitor. Newbury, Berkshire, South East Crime
3359 Swindon firm of smaller size seek a residential conveyancing solicitor to join their practice. Swindon, Wiltshire, South West Conveyancing
3358 Lincoln firm are on the lookout for a residential conveyancing solicitor to join - medium sized practice well known in the area. Lincoln, Lincolnshire, East Midlands Conveyancing
3357 Sussex firm, rapidly expanding, with vacancies across a range of departments. Company commercial post is at 3 years PQE upwards, residential conveyancing the same (will include equestrian, country and agricultural work), wills, trust and probate work at 3 years PQE upwards, Commercial Property at NQ level and upwards, and an experienced commercial property solicitor also. Employment law post is for a solicitor to expand a telephone advice line on employment law matters. Uckfield, Sussex, South Coast Company Commercial, Conveyancing, Wills & Probate, Commercial Property, Employment
3356 Residential conveyancing fee earner sought ideally with about 2-3 years experience and able to manage their own caseload. Same firm also seek a commercial property solicitor able to deal with a broad range of property transactions across a varied client base including particular expertise dealing with local and national charities. Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire, South East Conveyancing, Commercial Property
3355 Non-contentious solicitor with own following or leads required to join a medium sized practice in central London. Central London Conveyancing, Wills & Probate, Commercial Property
3354 Residential conveyancing solicitor or executive sought to handle residential caseload, plus some commercial if possible Enfield, North London Conveyancing
3353 Paralegal sought to deal with mix of mental health and family law work. Some experience in both ideally. Central London Mental Health, Family
3352 Family solicitor for 60-40% split of private to LSC funded work, wanting someone to handle their own caseload. Epsom, Surrey, South East Family
3351 Wills & Probate solicitor sought by Selby firm to deal with a range of work (job spec available) - will consider anyone with accountancy qualifications - trusts, estates, marketing etc.. Selby, North Yorkshire Wills & Probate
3350 Local organisation in Birmingham seeks a solicitor with family, conveyancing and one other field to join and develop their privately funded legal service. Birmingham, West Midlands Conveyancing,Family, Personal Injury, Wills & Probate, Immigration
Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment is made up of a number of different websites and you can register to improve your prospects via any of our sites. Our sites simply offer law jobs, and we are totally committed to legal recruitment - we operate www.ten-percent.co.uk, our main site, www.jonathanfagan.co.uk (property, wills, probate, litigation), www.conveyancing-jobs.co.uk, www.crime-solicitor.co.uk (crime - duty solicitors, police station accredited reps and NQ), www.eastmidlandslegal.co.uk, www.yorkshire-legal-recruitment.co.uk, www.hampshirelegal.co.uk, www.homecountieslegal.co.uk and www.chancerylane.co.uk (UK corporate and commercial solicitor recruitment by email). All our sites are an integral part of our legal recruitment group. We also offer a locum service for assignments of more than 1 month at www.ten-percent.co.uk/locum.htm
We remain at the forefront of online recruitment, and currently feature fairly prominently on Google, Yahoo and MSN Search in the top 10 at most times. We retain our commitment to donate 10% of our annual net profits to charity.
Registration of New Posts
We have found that new vacancies have dropped slightly, as partners of law firms go off on their holidays and find better things to do, such as watch or play cricket!
General Outlook for Permanent and Temporary Recruitment
For permanent placements the fields of law are shifting, although I have looked back and discovered that we are still placing crime solicitors, despite previous gloom and doom - it seems that London has become a desert for recruitment thanks to the redundancies, but everywhere else seems to have the occasional post.
Conveyancing is good - lots of work on both the temporary and permanent side coming in - although again London central not moving very fast. Other areas appear to have a bit of a shortage.
Personal injury - not very good, although commercial and civil litigation have picked up slightly.
In the temporary fields - TP Locums - www.ten-percent.co.uk/locum.htm - is finding increased numbers of assignments out there as firms struggle to attract new blood into firms, and are finding it easier to take locums for contract work and then ditch them when any source of work dries up.
It remains the same as always at NQ level - just not getting the vacancies into us in the same quantity - there are firms out there interviewing at present, and there seem to be increases across the board in the amount of work available. More and more of our recruitment is now focused more on experience rather than qualification.
Commercial litigation remains a barren wasteland, although we have had a couple of commercial litigation posts into us now, including an NQ one (second since 2004!).
Commercial property remains busy, and there is a real lack of any candidates in that field at times. Property litigation as well seems to be the 'in' thing, and I expect this to increase in time, as more and more issues arise for the new generation of landlords out there.
Age Discrimination and Newly Qualified Solicitors
Things have not changed very much at all - I rue the days spent reading all the legislation and attending courses - what a waste of time! Our agency has never discriminated on any front, and I have been happy to put forward 70 year old lawyers for NQ jobs if they wish me to. Firms can do as they please really - if they want to ignore an application they will do, but just dress it up as something else. Still lots of ads for NQ-3 years PQE solicitors, which firms of specialist employment lawyers were advising recruiters to cease doing. I have noticed an increase in firms taking on older solicitors, which is good.
Conveyancing Jobs
Conveyancing - this has now picked up, and we are getting requests for CVs at all levels, although still not the mad mayhem it was a few years ago. The market is still improving for conveyancing - but salary levels have not increased very much. The Home Information Packs are a great unknown and sound a complete waste of time, let alone a scam to create yet another service industry that isnt really needed, and some firms are a bit wary about what the effect will be of these.. Click here for advice for NQ solicitors There remains a shortage of conveyancers in and around Leeds at present..
Crime Work
I have been writing essays on crime recruitment, but in short, we have now withdrawn all advertising for crime solicitors in London, and have started to avoid the work from the candidate end wherever possible to a certain extent. I am still getting people registering at high speed, but a few weeks ago we sent all the firms with registered vacancies with us in London (over 80) an email to ask if recruiting, and 2 got back to say yes! Most indicated that they were making redundancies or cutting salaries to survive, and I just view the whole thing with despair. What most people forget is that behind the rhetoric of loaded crime solicitors remains an army of completely committed workers getting paid less than milkmen to do some of the most undesirable jobs in the country for no thanks whatsoever, but at the same time performing one of the most vital civil liberty functions in the legal profession. I have noticed registrations from NQ solicitors asking for 15-17k salaries, and this perhaps is the most worrying aspect of all...
One glimmer of light remains the sudden emphasis on higher rights in job applications, as firms are currently starting to see that getting into the higher courts is one way they can increase their turnover, and I suspect barristers are definitely starting to look over their shoulders...
www.crime-solicitor.co.uk, www.ten-percent.co.uk - both useful resources for further recruitment information.
High Street Fields
This year the key fields of law on the high street side so far remain crime (outside London), wills & probate, conveyancing and commercial property. Commercial litigation and personal injury remain extremely difficult to source work for on the NQ front and in fact we still get many litigators contacting us about each litigation post coming up in London. Personal injury has picked up a little bit in recent weeks, with posts being registered in different areas.
Litigation posts as a whole appear to be coming back into fashion after a few years of nothing arising. We have continued to pick up these in the last month or so.
In terms of geographical areas, we remain very strong in Hampshire, the South Coast, Kent, East Anglia, Essex, the South West, East & West Midlands, North Wales, the North West including Manchester, Chester, Liverpool, Yorkshire and Cumbria.
Conveyancing
Conveyancing jobs are increasing dramatically as the property market carries on. The Law Society Gazette has had a number of firms across the UK advertising recently, and we have noticed a continued marked increase in responses to our updates to firms for conveyancing lawyers with experience and also at NQ level. We have struggled to find conveyancing locums for example, when opportunities are plentiful on the whole.
Most other areas apart from London remain unaffected for anyone with 1 year PQE upwards, and interviews have been arranged across the UK for conveyancers with 2 years PQE upwards with no alterations to the norm at this time of year.
Crime - www.crime-solicitor.co.uk
Wills & Probate
Wills & Probate has been an interesting field. Large number of firms looking as they have seen the potential in dealing with IHT work and trusts, which is inevitable following recent house price boom. Quite a lot of vacancies have also come into us from other areas in this field, with increasing numbers in the North West. East Anglia and the Home Counties are doing well at present, together with the South Coast, and the East Midlands is resurgent. London posts remain few and far between. Try visiting www.jonathanfagan.co.uk if interested in receiving further details for private client posts.
Commercial Property
There remain posts in almost every town for commercial property solicitors from NQ upwards. Firms have almost taken the collective decision that this is going to be the next boom area, and it is time to increase the size of their departments. Commercial property solicitors are in demand for recruitment in every area, and it seems even smaller practices are trying to get in on the action. After the last mini property blip a few years ago, a similar occurrence happened in the legal job market - the commercial property sector boomed. Commercial property solicitors outside of London can contact us (NQ still awkward in some areas) and we would be confident of securing a number of interviews in most areas of the UK, with plenty of the medium to large regional practices looking to take on staff.
Family Law
Not that mad at all - still posts there, but not that many - Carter has caught up I think... - although outside of London anything above 3 years PQE and if possible panel applications in already is going to result in interviews. East side of London currently poor. This remains a poor area to be looking at NQ level though - if you are a panel member outside the North East (which historically has been very poor for family law recruitment), we would be reasonably confident of securing a good number of legal job interviews for you - the south west is a particular hotspot - Plymouth firms in particular.
Company Commercial and other Commercial fields - www.chancerylane.co.uk
Chancery Lane is our corporate & commercial recruitment specialist arm and you can get details at www.chancerylane.co.uk. The site specialises in the range of commercial fields usually associated with London City and regional practices - corporate commercial, mergers & acquisitions, shipping, competition, tax, banking, corporate finance, IT and IP, commercial property and construction. We hope to be expanding rapidly, and as this happens we will increase the amount of information we include in this section.
Most areas have vacancies which have gone unfilled for a long time for senior and mid level company commercial solicitors not expecting London City firm salaries. Company commercial in the home counties quite popular as usual (3 years PQE upwards). Register with www.homecountieslegal.co.uk to stay up to date.
The Ten-Percent site attracts solicitors and legal executives from across the UK, who register both with us and our specialist sites for our legal recruitment services. Although we deal with most legal jobs, including a subsidiary site for permanent legal secretaries (www.tp-secretaries.co.uk) most of our posts are for solicitors and ILEX candidates.
Our sister sites www.crime-solicitor.co.uk, and www.jonathanfagan.co.uk are usually fairly busy (the latter dealing with conveyancing and private client recruitment). Particular hotspots are detailed below.
Contact for Work
Contact Ten-Percent and register for our jobfinder service . You can contact Jonathan Fagan directly on 0845 644 3923 or at jbfagan@tenpercent.co.uk if you would like to discuss career opportunities. You can also read his blog, Legal Recruitment.
We can provide you with regular updates of vacancies and firms across our entire family of websites. www.jonathanfagan.co.uk for 1-5 year PQEs in conveyancing, litigation or private client legal recruitment, commercial work at www.chancerylane.co.uk or try our other regional sites www.yorkshire-legal-recruitment.co.uk or www.homecountieslegal.co.uk, www.eastmidlandslegal.co.uk
You can also view our selection site at www.lawyer-recruitment.co.uk
New legal job vacancies into us in the last few weeks are as follows: please click here for our full vacancy database
Recent Vacancies (in since our last report)
Any interest, please drop us an email to jobs@tenpercent.co.uk, quoting the ref. no and attaching a CV.
3398 Conveyancing lawyer sought by Manchester practice - would be heading the department. Manchester, North West Conveyancing
3397 Conveyancing solicitor or executive possibly with another field sought by firm in Westbury, Wiltshire. Old established practice. Westbury, Wiltshire, South West Conveyancing
3396 Experienced non-qualified fee earner sought - whether a secretary wanting to step up or an existing paralegal, to deal with a mix of private and publicly funded family law work. Crowborough, Sussex, South Coast Family
3395 Company commercial solicitor sought by Exeter firm - all levels considered Exeter, Devon, South West Company Commercial
3394 Crime solicitor - duty solicitor qualified - sought to join Cornwall practice. Cornwall, South West Crime
3393 Private client lawyer sought to join personal estate planning team. Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire, South East Wills & Probate
3392 Commercial property solicitor sought by Devon based firm to deal with expanding workload that includes SMEs, leasehold, developer clients etc.. Devon, South West Commercial Property
3391 Commercial property solicitor sought by central Nottingham firm at assistant level. Nottingham, East Midlands Commercial Property
3390 One of the few remaining LSC funded firms for civil litigation and PI has been in touch to register a post for an experienced solicitor to deal with a mix of LSC and privately funded litigation work. Tunbridge Wells, Kent, South East Civil Litigation, Personal Injury
3389 commercial litigation solicitor sought at two levels - first one on contract at a fairly senior level, the second a recently qualified commercial litigation solicitor. Beckenham, Kent, South East Commercial Litigation
3388 Private client lawyer sought to head department of medium sized practice in Cambridge. Cambridge, East Anglia Wills & Probate
3387 PI post in Southport with medium sized practice. Southport, Merseyside, North West Personal Injury
3386 Liverpool suburb firm seek a commercial and residential conveyancing solicitor - all levels considered. Liverpool, Merseyside, North West Commercial Property, Conveyancing
3385 Conveyancing & commercial property solicitor sought by central Liverpool firm. Liverpool, Merseyside, North West Conveyancing, Commercial Property
3384 Crime solicitor sought on full time basis in Hereford - police station accreditation or soon to be essential, with court work also. Hereford, Herefordshire, West Midlands Crime
3383 Litigation solicitor sought by Plymouth firm rapidly expanding of larger size. Will be dealing with a varied caseload, which will include property litigation. Will need to be IT literate and with good experience. Plymouth, Devon, South West Commercial litigation, Property Litigation
3382 Private client or residential conveyancing solicitor sought by Folkestone firm. Partnership prospects. Folkestone, Kent, South Coast Wills & Probate, Conveyancing
3381 Company commercial solicitor or lawyer to work in Birmingham on a part time basis, working about 2 days per week. General company commercial post. Birmingham, West Midlands Company commercial
3380 Company commercial solicitor sought by Peterborough firm. Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, East Anglia Company Commercial
3379 Commercial property solicitor sought by Cambridge firm with reasonable experience. Cambridge, East Anglia Commercial Property
3378 Private client lawyer sought by Lytham St Annes firm - full supervision and support provided. St Annes, Blackpool, Lancashire, North West Wills & Probate
3377 Conveyancing solicitor sought by central Bristol practice. Bristol, South West Conveyancing
3376 Wills & probate solicitor sought at assistant level (will be helping in a department) with opportunities to deal with overseas work as well. Medium sized international law firm. Taxation and trusts work also. Other vacancies for a conveyancing secretary, accounts clerk and bookkeeper. Central London Accounts Clerk, Book Keeper, Conveyancing Secretary, Wills & Probate
3375 Conveyancing solicitor, legal executive or licensed conveyancer sought by central London practice in EC1. Looking for someone to develop the residential conveyancing work coming into the commercial practice, and expand further. Good prospects. Central London Conveyancing
3374 Commercial Litigation solicitor sought with good experience by Derby firm of medium size. Derby, East Midlands Commercial Litigation
3373 Conveyancing solicitor or executive sought by Redcar firm. Redcar, Cleveland, North East Conveyancing
3372 Smaller sized practice seek a solicitor to join and assist with privately funded immigration or other field (if following in other field). Enfield, North London, Middlesex, South East Immigration, Conveyancing, Litigation
3371 Licensed Conveyancer sought in the Oxfordshire area to join a new firm of licensed conveyancers set up. Oxfordshire, South East Conveyancing
3370 Conveyancing Personal Moving Consultants sought by somewhat innovative online operation based in Richmond, Surrey Richmond, Surrey, South East Conveyancing
3369 Conveyancing solicitor sought by central Bristol firm of small-medium size. Bristol, South West Conveyancing
3368 Solicitor to deal with a mix of family and civil litigation matters near Cambridge sought. All levels considered. Cambridge, East Anglia Family, Civil Litigation
3367 Commercial litigation sought by Somerset practice in market town - main areas are employment and commercial litigation, with property disputes, estate litigation. Somerset, South West Commercial Litigation
3366 Conveyancing post for a solicitor or executive in Darlington. Darlington, County Durham, North East Conveyancing
3365 Company commercial solicitor sought by Ashton under Lyne firm. Ashton under Lyne, Lancashire, North West Company Commercial
3364 Conveyancing solicitor sought by Hoylake firm on the Wirral. Hoylake, Wirral, Cheshire, Merseyside, North West Conveyancing
3363 Company commercial solicitor sought by Stockton on Tees firm of medium size Stockton on Tees, Teesside, North East Company Commercial
3362 Conveyancing post in Middlesbrough with a medium sized firm. Middlesbrough, Teesside, North East Conveyancing
3361 Conveyancing position in St Helens with a medium sized practice. St Helens, Lancashire, North West Conveyancing
3360 Crime post in Newbury with a medium sized practice. Wanting someone coming up to or already a duty solicitor. Newbury, Berkshire, South East Crime
3359 Swindon firm of smaller size seek a residential conveyancing solicitor to join their practice. Swindon, Wiltshire, South West Conveyancing
3358 Lincoln firm are on the lookout for a residential conveyancing solicitor to join - medium sized practice well known in the area. Lincoln, Lincolnshire, East Midlands Conveyancing
3357 Sussex firm, rapidly expanding, with vacancies across a range of departments. Company commercial post is at 3 years PQE upwards, residential conveyancing the same (will include equestrian, country and agricultural work), wills, trust and probate work at 3 years PQE upwards, Commercial Property at NQ level and upwards, and an experienced commercial property solicitor also. Employment law post is for a solicitor to expand a telephone advice line on employment law matters. Uckfield, Sussex, South Coast Company Commercial, Conveyancing, Wills & Probate, Commercial Property, Employment
3356 Residential conveyancing fee earner sought ideally with about 2-3 years experience and able to manage their own caseload. Same firm also seek a commercial property solicitor able to deal with a broad range of property transactions across a varied client base including particular expertise dealing with local and national charities. Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire, South East Conveyancing, Commercial Property
3355 Non-contentious solicitor with own following or leads required to join a medium sized practice in central London. Central London Conveyancing, Wills & Probate, Commercial Property
3354 Residential conveyancing solicitor or executive sought to handle residential caseload, plus some commercial if possible Enfield, North London Conveyancing
3353 Paralegal sought to deal with mix of mental health and family law work. Some experience in both ideally. Central London Mental Health, Family
3352 Family solicitor for 60-40% split of private to LSC funded work, wanting someone to handle their own caseload. Epsom, Surrey, South East Family
3351 Wills & Probate solicitor sought by Selby firm to deal with a range of work (job spec available) - will consider anyone with accountancy qualifications - trusts, estates, marketing etc.. Selby, North Yorkshire Wills & Probate
3350 Local organisation in Birmingham seeks a solicitor with family, conveyancing and one other field to join and develop their privately funded legal service. Birmingham, West Midlands Conveyancing,Family, Personal Injury, Wills & Probate, Immigration
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