Legal Recruitment Blog

The average wage for a recruitment consultant in the UK including England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland is about £27,500. This is assuming you take into account basic salary and bonus, because essentially for most companies recruitment consultants are sales people, whether they undertake permanent recruitment or temporary or contract recruitment. There is an underlying principle that recruitment consultants have to earn what they make, in that you can only remain working as a recruitment consultant if you are paying your way. Here at TenPercent Legal Recruitment , Ten Percent Financial and Interim Lawyers , we pay recruitment consultants a base salary at a range of between £17,500 and £35,000, and then on top of that we pay 33% commission on all income generated; whether that takes you over or under any levels makes no difference.  We believe this is a fair way of working; it incentivises recruitment consultants to generate more income if they want to, but it al...

There has been a story in the Gazette recently about a barrister being turned down for a case because he was Afghan and not a while male barrister. Cue uproar in the legal profession and quite rightly too.  My own experience of this dates back to practice over 20 years ago when a number of clients would reject the opportunity to be represented by colleagues who were Asian or female, and instead ask for a white male to represent them. It was not always clear whether this was because the white male in question was a well regarded 25 year qualified solicitor with a reputation for being able to get anybody off, but the way some of the clients asked was pretty indicative of someone with racist or sexist opinions, and impressively at the practice I worked at, the partners would have none of it. Similarly, I was aware of practices where they would bend over backwards to accommodate the wishes of such unpleasant clients simply to ensure they got the business.  However, this t...

Are Dodgy Geezers the Future for the Legal Profession? Apologies to the model above who presumably is not dodgy at all! The SRA have today announced that freelance solicitors can work directly with the public provided they have the appropriate indemnity insurance, and solicitors can work in unregulated companies. It seems that the work solicitors do in unregulated companies has to be non-regulated work, i.e. work the solicitor does not specifically need to do. It is not clear exactly what freelance solicitors working directly with the public are allowed to do and not do, but it seems that they are allowed to do regulated activity as well as unregulated activity, provided they have the appropriate indemnity insurance in place. It is not yet clear exactly what level of protection the public will have from either group of solicitors, whether it’s those working in unregulated companies or freelance solicitors working directly on behalf of the public, but the SRA seem to have man...