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Please find below details of recent Wills & Probate vacancies registered with Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment. VAC 14199 - Firm in the New Forest on the Hampshire/Dorset border have a vacancy for a Private Client Solicitor or Legal Executive. Caseload will be the full range of Wills, probate, estate administration and elderly/vulnerable client issues. The ideal candidate will be highly personable. Salary levels are market rate and there are excellent prospects in place for partnership/heading up the department. Firm are based 20 miles from Southampton. This is a replacement vacancy. VAC 14194 - Berkshire firm, Reading area are looking for a private client lawyer. they have a vacancy for a full-time permanent private client solicitor or legal executive or body with requisite experience (e.g. ex bank/investment etc). The role involves Will drafting, tax and estate planning and probate including the completion of IHT forms etc. They need at least 3 years PQE preferably 5 and the candida...

There are 9 million bicycles in Bejjing - thats a fact, its a thing we cant deny.... Katie Mellua. There are 120,000 solicitors in the UK... For years during career coaching, careers talks and general work I have used the figure of about 105,000 and never did I expect to see that the figure had risen to 120,000, particularly in recent years with the recession, many thousands of redundancies, the near collapse of legal recruitment (see the back of the gazette for the last few years to see the lack of business in 2008-2010). Where on earth are all these solicitors working? Well, firstly bear in mind the following when looking at these figures: 1. This is the number of solicitors on the Roll. I am on the Roll, but not practising since 2003. 2. Solicitors on the roll include rather a large number of people in between jobs, lawyers who qualified as solicitors and then did not continue, and 3. Solicitors who have left the profession but like the status (I confess to being one of these!). The...

Recently a client has passed this question through to us: What do you think will bring about the end of the world? Good question for a whole host of reasons: 1. It is a very good way of finding out strongly held religious or personal beliefs - eg you are person with strongly held environmental beliefs who thinks the human race is going to destroy the planet. 2. Good to see if you can think quickly on your feet. 3. Can weed out anyone overtly pessimistic who will be able to give a lot of detail to it rather than thinking positively. 4. Whether in fact you think the world is going to end or continue quite happily for many years to come. It is a very Human Resources like question! Probably the best line of approach would be to avoid the question altogether and perhaps come up with a response that you see no reason why the end of the world should happen as after all it has been here for many billions of years already... Anyone else got any thoughts? Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment - Online...

January 2011 Employers Newsletter Open publication - Free publishing Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment - Online Legal Recruitment for Solicitors, Legal Executives, Fee Earners, Support Staff, Managers and Paralegals . Visit our Website to search or download our Vacancy Database or view our Candidate Database online. Our Legal Careers Shop has eBooks on CV Writing for Lawyers, Legal Job Interview Guide, Interview Answers for Lawyers, NQ Career Guide, Guide to Finding Work Experience or a Training Contract and the Entrants Guide to the Legal Profession. To visit our Sale/Clearance section please click here . www.ten-percent.co.uk/careersshop

Happy New Year to all our readers! Here follow our 2011 Legal Recruitment and Legal Job Market Predictions: 1. The job market is going to heat up, with demand particularly strong for experienced career paralegals, support staff and legal cashiers. The reason for this is that a lot of firms are starting to realise that they do not necessarily need to recruit solicitors to undertake fairly straightforward transactional work and instead can get paralegals and unqualified executives for a lot less money. 2. As this happens, salary levels are going to stay low for solicitors. I do not see any improvement on salaries within the next 2-3 years. 3. The majority of experienced unemployed non-qualified fee earners will find work very quickly, and as this happens more firms will then grudgingly give up on looking around for cheaper options and move back into recruiting solicitors again. 4. We think that by the middle of 2011 legal recruitment will be at similar levels to 2007-2008 and a lot of fi...