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  A PR company has issued a press release claiming that research shows that up to 70% of employees in the UK plan to ask their employers if they can work flexibly and/or remotely for at least some or all of the time. 70% of workers plan to ask for remote or flexible working of at least some kind from their employers following the pandemic in 2020. The whole pandemic situation has opened up huge opportunities for employers to save on costs going forward, and use home working as a way of either increasing their prospects of recruitment or by saving costs in terms of rates paid because people no longer have to travel all the time to their offices or places of work. For employees enforced working from home has opened a lot of eyes to how much time each day is completely wasted travelling to and from a place of work, when for a number of jobs it is completely unnecessary to do so. Not good news for the commercial property sector which is taking a battering along with ...

Legal Recruitment News December 2020 from the Ten Percent Group. Includes our Legal Job Market Report, Locum Hourly Rates for December 2020, Tips on Making a CV Stand Out, Law Firm Valuations, Suggested Answer for Interview Question on Travelling and the Importance of Offering Remote Working to Staff.  https://www.interimlawyers.co.uk/legal-recruitment-news-and-legal-job-market-update-december-2020/ Jonathan Fagan is Managing Director of Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment and a non-practising Solicitor. Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment provides online Legal Recruitment for Solicitors, Legal Executives, Fee Earners, Support Staff, Managers and Paralegals . Visit our Website to search our Vacancy Database. 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.

  Recruitment agent rule of thumb number 323: If a candidate is hard to pin down for an interview time, they are almost certainly going to mess everyone around at some stage in the process. We have produced numerous rules of thumbs for recruitment agents over the years, and this is one of the almost guaranteed rules that applies nearly every single time! Picture the scene – we have taken a vacancy from a client, the vacancy seems very promising with a good salary, decent conditions in an easily accessible location, and we send it out to our candidates. We get six enquiries and send off four CVs. Three of the CVs we like the look of and we have found the candidate very easy to deal with. The fourth CV will be good, but we may have struggled a little bit to get hold of the candidate to confirm their interest. You can almost guarantee that the candidate the firm will want to interview will be the fourth one that we have been slightly uncertain about. The Interview Ar...

Legal Recruitment News November 2020 from the Ten Percent Group of Recruitment Websites. https://chancerylane.co.uk/legal-recruitment-news-november-2020/   Jonathan Fagan is Managing Director of Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment and a non-practising Solicitor. Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment provides online Legal Recruitment for Solicitors, Legal Executives, Fee Earners, Support Staff, Managers and Paralegals . Visit our Website to search our Vacancy Database. 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.

There has recently been a report that Amnesty International are going to have to lay off a large number of staff because they have got a shortfall in their income and have spent too much trying to raise money that never materialised.  Amnesty International paid four members of staff £100-110k in 2018. It also paid one person £80-90k and seven members of staff £60-70k. This means that twelve members of staff earned more than £60k in 2018. This was a 100% increase on the year before - when six staff in total who earned more than £60k. Data is taken from their most recent submitted accounts to the Charity Commission at the time of writing this article.     An article in The Guardian newspaper last year included quotes from the Unite union talking about the high salaries paid to a bloated management team at the charity, with a large number of senior managers earning six figure salaries. We first looked at the salaries paid by Amnesty back in 2014 during a study...

 Our Legal Recruitment Newsletter is available to read online. It includes our monthly legal job market report, tailoring your CVs for jobs, an article on locums not wanting to work on site at the moment and ridiculous law firm valuations.  https://chancerylane.co.uk/legal-recruitment-news-october-2020/   Jonathan Fagan is Managing Director of Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment and a non-practising Solicitor. Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment provides online Legal Recruitment for Solicitors, Legal Executives, Fee Earners, Support Staff, Managers and Paralegals .

 Legal Recruitment News September 2020 - click the link below. https://www.interimlawyers.co.uk/legal-recruitment-news-september-2020/ Jonathan Fagan is Managing Director of Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment and a non-practising Solicitor. Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment provides online Legal Recruitment for Solicitors, Legal Executives, Fee Earners, Support Staff, Managers and Paralegals . Visit our Website to search our Vacancy Database. 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.

  If you buy a will bank, do you need to write to all the testators to advise them of the change in location and ownership? This has arisen recently following the purchase of a will bank (not one of our clients but a general query). Both the seller and the buyer had been concerned that the buyer should write to the many thousands of testators in the will bank to advise them that the potential ownership and location of their wills has changed and to get their consent to the transfer of location. This has obviously raised issues as to whether or not it is possible or practical to purchase a will bank if you have to do this when a sale occurs. Any Ideas? We would welcome any thoughts on this issue as we have, in the past, heard conflicting advice from the regulators. The following information is not intended as advice, but rather simply anecdotal experiences we have had, and should not be relied upon to take a particular course of action. Anecdotal Information We we...

Legal Recruitment News from Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment and Interim Lawyers for August 2020. Includes a legal job market report for both permanent and locum work, locum hourly rates, CV advice, finding solicitors with following and how to expand your practice in new areas of law. https://www.ten-percent.co.uk/legal-recruitment-news-august-2020/ Jonathan Fagan is Managing Director of Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment and a non-practising Solicitor. Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment provides online Legal Recruitment for Solicitors, Legal Executives, Fee Earners, Support Staff, Managers and Paralegals . Visit our Website to search our Vacancy Database. 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.

 Legal Recruitment News from Ten Percent Legal. Includes a discussion on Professional Indemnity Insurance for Locums, the state of the Conveyancing job market, senior solicitors being at risk of redundancy, a Legal Job Market Report and July 2020 hourly rates for locums. Click here to read: https://www.ten-percent.co.uk/legal-recruitment-news-july-2020/ Jonathan Fagan is Managing Director of Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment and a non-practising Solicitor. Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment provides online Legal Recruitment for Solicitors, Legal Executives, Fee Earners, Support Staff, Managers and Paralegals . Visit our Website to search our Vacancy Database. 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.

The Law Society Gazette recently (July 2020) ran an article regarding the concern at Magic Circle and city firms that newly qualified solicitors will be seeing pay cuts and it may be a rocky year ahead for newly qualified and trainee solicitors.   Struggling NQ City Solicitors?   Examples are given by the Gazette of Allen and Overy paying £90,000 to newly qualified solicitors rather than £100,000 and Clifford Chance cutting newly qualified pay to £94,500. Hogan Lovells trainees will receive £85,000 as opposed to £90,000 when they qualify. The Law Society Gazette talks about newly qualified pay bouncing back the following year and it being a worry for newly qualified solicitors that they are going to get these low levels of salary.   Vodafone Chief - a Dislike for Law Firms  On the next page of the Gazette there is actually an article from the Head of Legal at Vodafone who has said she is troubled by rapid moves to lay off junior lawye...

  This has happened to our companies so many times over the years that we almost sigh whenever a large organisation or company wants to do business with us. We know that although there may be plenty of work coming our way, we are not going to get paid for a substantial period of time afterwards. Example Take recent work for a university. We undertook their order, spent considerable time making sure that everything we were doing was satisfactory for them, the institution had specific requirements that resulted in us needing to invest in further technology and software updates, and we completed the work as they requested. The invoice we submitted was not substantial and we had costs ourselves that had to be met out of our accounts whilst we waited for payment. 87 Days - a pure coincidence? Our payment terms are 21 days. We got to the end of the 21 days and issued our usual set of reminders, one after 7 days, another one 7 days later and a final one 7 days a...

Legal Recruitment News June 2020 - articles on the legal profession, legal job market updates, hourly rates, careers advice and more. http://www.legal-recruitment.co.uk/legal-recruitment-news-june-2020/ Jonathan Fagan is Managing Director of Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment and a non-practising Solicitor. Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment provides online Legal Recruitment for Solicitors, Legal Executives, Fee Earners, Support Staff, Managers and Paralegals . Visit our Website to search our Vacancy Database. 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.

Legal Recruitment News May 2020 including job market report, locum hourly rates, CV writing services, remote working, business meetings and more. Click here to read the pdf version . Jonathan Fagan is Managing Director of Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment and a non-practising Solicitor. Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment provides online Legal Recruitment for Solicitors, Legal Executives, Fee Earners, Support Staff, Managers and Paralegals . Visit our Website to search our Vacancy Database. 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.

http://www.legal-recruitment.co.uk/legal-recruitment-news-march-2020/ Jonathan Fagan is Managing Director of Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment and a non-practising Solicitor. Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment provides online Legal Recruitment for Solicitors, Legal Executives, Fee Earners, Support Staff, Managers and Paralegals . Visit our Website to search our Vacancy Database.  

  In November 2019, during the winter election campaign, a BBC Question Time audience member informed the panel that he was a member of the working class and considered that £80,000 salary was not a lot of money and that it was a bit of a struggle surviving on this. He expressed incredulity, along with a significant portion of the audience, when Richard Burgon, a Labour MP, stated that he had been a solicitor before getting into parliament, and that his salary had been £40,000. It is one of the oldest examples of fake news that exists in society today, and dates back many years. Solicitors & accountants are considered by the general population to earn a lot more money than the average wage. The big 4 firms in accountancy and the city law firms in London distort the figures somewhat and make headline news, detracting away from the reality for the majority of fee earners in both professions. Our own consultants were astonished to hear this assertion becaus...

  This question comes up all the time and is quite a common query that we imagine the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) are getting better at answering due to the sheer number of people asking the question. Many years ago the advice seemed a bit varied at times, but we have recently had a candidate who wanted to work in a locum role in the short term and waiting to go back on the Roll and get a practising certificate after some time spent outside the profession. She has been given fairly concise advice on whether she could work as a paralegal whilst waiting to be readmitted which we are repeating here. This article is written as a discussion point and is not intended to be advice in any shape or form. For full advice on your particular set of circumstances please speak to the SRA (or whoever else you like, but please do not depend on the information in this article!). The SRA have a simple online test to determine if you need a practising certificate and th...

February 2020 Legal Recruitment News is available here to read: http://www.legal-recruitment.co.uk/february-2020-legal-recruitment-news/ Jonathan Fagan is Managing Director of Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment and a non-practising Solicitor. Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment provides online Legal Recruitment for Solicitors, Legal Executives, Fee Earners, Support Staff, Managers and Paralegals . Visit our Website to search our Vacancy Database.

We use a number of job boards to post our vacancies on. One of these job boards is Reed.co.uk. We have been customers of Reed for over 10 years and have always found their job board to be very cost effective and worthwhile, although they really want to sack their PR agency - the TV ads are terrible! They started out as a recruitment agency themselves before setting up a job board and offering other recruitment agents free credits to post on it. Before long they had turned into a major player in the job board market. After Christmas 2018 we saw a spate of job advertisements coming our way from our clients right across the UK and with all shapes and sizes of job vacancies. We were very pleased to see this because our concern was that after Christmas and the arguments about Brexit just before, we would see a dramatic slowdown in work, but this did not happen in the first few weeks of January as we saw an increase in the number of applicants coming our way via our own sites. Email ...

Annual Predictions - how did the professional psychic do? We have been following the predictions of Craig Hamilton-Parker of psychics.co.uk for some years now - it is fascinating to see how he fares every year with his previous year's predictions. Here are a selection of Craig's 2019 predictions together with our scores:  THERESA MAY GOES - She survives until Brexit on the 29th March but resigns immediately afterward. (correct - sort of) HARD BREXIT BUT NO IRISH BORDER The Irish border is left open. A ruptured border allows the free flow of international goods into Europe. Ireland eventually enforces the border. (incorrect - so far...) POUND SOARS AFTER BREXIT The City of London sees unprecedented activity and a general improvement after a sharp initial fall. (incorrect - no brexit yet!) NEW POLITICAL PARTY FORMED I have spoken about this in the Sun newspaper psychic predictions in 2017. I believe it will happen this year and will draw politicians from...

Local Authority Rates for Locums - a view from a local authority locum A locum with experience of the local authority market very kindly emailed us over an outline of their experience of the locum market during their career to date."I am responding to your request for feedback on locum rates. I worked as a locum employment solicitor for local authorities [for 10 years]. All roles were through an agency. I often worked on large employment tribunal cases and would be involved in recruiting other locum solicitors so I have some insight into their hiring processes.My initial roles (Northern England) were paid at £18 and £21 respectively although this was because the agencies concerned misled me about market rate. I found out that [one council] had initially taken me over other locums as I was so cheap!I then worked at [a West Midlands Council] for around £32 per hour, although I was able to negotiate a higher rate due to the need to live away from home. I eventually ended up at...

January 2020 Legal Recruitment News is available here to read: http://www.legal-recruitment.co.uk/january-2020-legal-recruitment-news/ Jonathan Fagan is Managing Director of Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment and a non-practising Solicitor. Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment provides online Legal Recruitment for Solicitors, Legal Executives, Fee Earners, Support Staff, Managers and Paralegals .