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Legal Recruitment News December 2021

Welcome to the December 2021 edition of Legal Recruitment News. It includes our legal job market report, locum hourly rates, advice on DIY legal recruitment, changing locum hours mid-assignment, making sure you are not the asset in a law firm sale, careers advice and suggested interview answers. http://www.legal-recruitment.co.uk/legal-recruitment-news-december-2021/ 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, Licensed Conveyancers, Legal Cashiers, Fee Earners, Support Staff, Managers and Paralegals . Visit our Website to search our Vacancy Database.

Legal Job Market Report December 2021

Here is our summary of the current state of the legal job market: Locum Recruitment - Busy The locum market still remains busy for this time of year than ever before, with a 100% increase in the number of assignments last month compared with the same time last year. We are starting to see availability for just about every assignment coming our way which remains a huge improvement on the summer season. Conveyancing locums are available in most areas now. Other fields of law are generally not too bad at all, although family locums are a little scarce at the moment. Most corporate and commercial areas still attract a lot of interest, whether in private practice or in house. Locum assignment updates here: https://www.interimlawyers.co.uk/category/locum-solicitor-updates/ Permanent Recruitment - Busy There remains a shortage of good candidates for most jobs and we are now into the traditional dip in the market prior to the Christmas break. Most people have better things to do than apply for...

Law Firm Sales - making sure you are not the asset for sale

A recent law firm sale process has got us thinking about an issue that comes up quite regularly when it comes to selling a law firm, which is that very often a lot of the business coming into a firm for sale is flowing through and sourced by the person selling the practice. A practice might have a senior partner, two or three consultants, junior fee earners and support staff. The owner will probably do the vast majority of the work but also it is likely he/she will also be the person who doesn’t want to carry on working once the sale has gone through. Sellers tend to expect a lump sum to be paid for the practice upfront and for themselves to leave and stop working within a period of a maximum of six to nine months. Buyers on the other hand instantly see things differently. Feedback after some initial meetings can be that as far as they can see all the value is in the seller and there is very little else up for sale. The buyer cannot understand why a £400,000 turnover practice is for sa...

Legal Recruitment News November 2021

Legal Recruitment Newsletter November 2021 from the Ten Percent Group of websites. Includes our legal job market report, locum solicitor hourly rates, article on high PII affecting the value of law firms, rewards & benefits in the legal sector, bad A levels and a 2.1 law degree - what to do and an interview question & suggested answer. https://www.ten-percent.co.uk/legal-recruitment-news-november-2021/ 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, Licensed Conveyancers, Legal Cashiers, Fee Earners, Support Staff, Managers and Paralegals . Visit our Website to search our Vacancy Database.

I have bad A levels and just about to get a 2:1 degree. What should I do about it?

  We have had a careers enquiry in from a third year law student asking us what he should do about his A levels. He has C C D at A level and is currently in his third year at university and expects to graduate with a 2:1 degree. He has been looking at job applications and noticing that a lot of law firms require very high A levels in order to apply. He has asked the question whether he should return to college and complete his A levels again in order to get the grades, or just apply anyway. Advice Our advice is to do neither. I think it is simply a case that this particular student needs to accept that because he has not got the A level grades required for specific firms it is unfortunately going to be their loss and his gain if he ends up somewhere else. This of course does not help the particularly candidate in question, so looking at practicalities we think the best option for him would be to aim simply to qualify as a solicitor, and the route probably availabl...

Legal Recruitment News October 2021

Legal Recruitment Newsletter October 2021 from the Ten Percent Group of websites. Includes our legal job market report, locum solicitor hourly rates, a long read article on the state of the conveyancing job market, how to explain bad things on a CV and an interview question & suggested answer.   https://www.interimlawyers.co.uk/legal-recruitment-news-october-2021/ 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, Licensed Conveyancers, Legal Cashiers, Fee Earners, Support Staff, Managers and Paralegals . Visit our Website to search our Vacancy Database.

Conveyancer Recruitment Shortage - the Perfect Storm

  Conveyancer Shortage - the Perfect Storm (and a lengthy read) There is a huge shortage in the conveyancing job market at the moment, with a shortfall of conveyancing lawyers in most law firms and increased amounts of work coming in. As I write this article in September 2021 we have already had reports from industry experts that the market would crash or drop after June and the end of the stamp duty holiday, and subsequently that the market would drop or crash at the end of September 2021 at the end of all support to the property market. What these reports and predictions don’t take into account is that there have been seismic shifts in the numbers of conveyancers either looking for work or currently in roles. A Brief History According to Ten Percent Legal In order to explain the conveyancing job market a bit of history is needed. Back in the mid 1990s conveyancing was starting to be seen as the poor cousin to most other areas of law on the high street. The gover...

Legal Recruitment News September 2021

 Legal Recruitment News from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment. Includes legal job market report, locum hourly rate guide, interview Q&A, law firm sales advice, locuming advice and more.  https://chancerylane.co.uk/legal-recruitment-news-september-2021/ 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, Licensed Conveyancers, Legal Cashiers, Fee Earners, Support Staff, Managers and Paralegals . Visit our Website to search our Vacancy Database.

Legal Recruitment News July 2021

Legal Recruitment News for July 2021 including age discrimination on CVs, selling law firms to non-solicitors, commercial contract manager vs in house legal counsel on job applications, salary reviews and hourly rates plus our legal job market report.   http://www.legal-recruitment.co.uk/legal-recruitment-news-july-2021/ 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, Licensed Conveyancers, Legal Cashiers, Fee Earners, Support Staff, Managers and Paralegals . Visit our Website to search our Vacancy Database.

Legal Recruitment News June 2021

 June 2021 edition of Legal Recruitment News. It includes the Ten Percent Legal Recruitment job market report, locum hourly rates, careers advice and suggested interview answers.   https://www.ten-percent.co.uk/legal-recruitment-news-june-2021/   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, Licensed Conveyancers, Legal Cashiers, Fee Earners, Support Staff, Managers and Paralegals . Visit our Website to search our Vacancy Database.

Haggling for the sake of it - Recruitment Agency Fees

  Haggling for the sake of it - what's your best price? I recently took a call from a senior partner of a small niche commercial practice, who rang me up because he was looking to recruit a number of senior commercial lawyers and wanted our assistance. We spent about 20 minutes on the phone with discussions around his firm, his firm’s aspirations, future plans, recruitment needs and a chat about how we could help. We went through all of this before he asked about fees. I explained to him that our fees were 18% (see our website for a full breakdown). He informed me that his firm had enjoyed a long lasting relationship with a recruiter who had charged him a lot less and that he was hoping to emulate this with a future deal. I explained that our fees were usually non-negotiable and that we worked on a set rate for everyone regardless of salary or seniority of the staff being recruited. I also suggested he stuck with the other recruiter as the rate (12%) is very good ...

Charity Donations May 2021 by the Ten Percent Group of Websites

  The trustees of the Ten Percent Foundation finally met yesterday after a lengthy delay and made the decision to make the following donations: Cure Parkinsons Trust, London - £500 Reprieve, London - £500 Unlock, London - £500 Stamma, London - £500 Flying High Trampoline Club, Denbigh - £2,000 STAND, North Wales - £1,000 The First Step, Merseyside - £2,500 Argoed Sports Association, Mold - £3,000 Dreams & Wishes, South Wales - £300 Walthamstow Toy Library, London - £300 Mencap Liverpool - £225 Calon Riding for the Disabled, North Wales - £500. Full article on our donations to follow next month. 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, Licensed Conveyancers, Legal Cashiers, Fee Earners, Support Staff, Managers and Paralegals . Visit our Website to search our Vacancy Database.

Legal Recruitment News May 2021

Welcome to the May 2021 edition of Legal Recruitment News. It includes our legal job market report, locum hourly rates, careers advice, selling a law firm, working as a locum via PAYE, getting into commercial law after a high street training contract and suggested interview answers. https://www.jonathanfagan.co.uk/legal-recruitment-news-may-2021/   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, Licensed Conveyancers, Legal Cashiers, Fee Earners, Support Staff, Managers and Paralegals . Visit our Website to search our Vacancy Database.

Legal Recruitment News April 2021

 Legal Recruitment News from the Ten Percent Group.  http://www.legal-recruitment.co.uk/legal-recruitment-news-april-2021/ Legal Recruitment News April 2021 from Ten Percent Group of websites including the Legal Job Market Update, locum solicitor hourly rates, articles on booking locums for more than one field of law, interview practice questions, law firm valuations, IR35 and more.  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, Licensed Conveyancers, Legal Cashiers, Fee Earners, Support Staff, Managers and Paralegals . Visit our Website to search our Vacancy Database.

Legal Recruitment News March 2021

 https://www.ten-percent.co.uk/legal-recruitment-news-march-2021/ 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, Licensed Conveyancers, Legal Cashiers, Fee Earners, Support Staff, Managers and Paralegals . Visit our Website to search our Vacancy Database.

IR35 - Something to Worry About?

  No, if you are a small business hiring locums - see the definition below. Please note that this article is not intended as tax or legal advice to be relied on - simply our thoughts. IR35, for those not in the industry, is a tax rule related to 'off-payroll working' and is all about levelling up tax contributions so that self-employed workers in theory pay the same as employed workers. It is therefore relevant to locums working in law firms and in house legal departments. A change is coming in from April 2021 - from the 6th April the clients/fee payers will be responsible for managing IR35. Firms will be required to state whether a role is 'outside of IR35', which will mean that the assignment in their opinion falls into the definition of self-employed work and will be paid gross/in full, or 'inside IR35', which means that it is caught by the legislation and hence net of tax and national insurance. If a role is 'inside IR35' then it m...

Podcast Talk by Jonathan Fagan - High Street vs Commercial, Nepotism in Law, Criminal Law - Avoid like the plague?, Problems getting Training Contracts

Jonathan Fagan, MD of Ten Percent Legal Recruitment, gave a talk to the 93 Percent Club in Guildford on Monday 8th March 2021. In case you missed it - here is a full recording.    https://anchor.fm/jonathan-fagan/episodes/Jonathan-Fagan-Talk-to-the-Guildford-93PercentClub-es6634 Legal Career Advice from Ten Percent Recruitment Agency London:  Event Details: ·          Speaker – Jonathan Fagan – Director at Ten Percent Legal. ·          Date – 8 th of March 2021 at 6pm. ·          Platform for Event – Zoom. About the Recruitment Agency: ·          Small, specialist online Legal Recruitment consultancy, established in April 2000 by two of the current directors – Jonathan and Claire Fagan. ·          Over 10,000 solicitors registered with the agency and work with...

Legal Recruitment News February 2021

Click the link below for the Legal Recruitment News - our monthly newsletter (now 13 years old!) from the Ten Percent Group of recruitment websites.  https://www.ten-percent.co.uk/legal-recruitment-news-february-2021/ 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.

Charity Donations 2021 - Suggestions Welcome

Our charity bank account currently has over £24,000 in it, which means that it is that time in the year again when the trustees of the Ten Percent Foundation meet to discuss our donation of 10% of the annual profits of the Ten Percent Group of websites, which include Ten Percent Legal, Ten Percent Financial, Jonathan Fagan Law Firm Sales, TP Transcription and Chancery Lane. We avoid charities with top heavy staffing & admin costs and welcome any suggestions from clients, candidates and general readers of our newsletters. We particularly like small charities with limited funds. Examples of donations made over the past 20 years can be found on our website at [www.tenpercentfoundation.org](http://www.tenpercentfoundation.org). To suggest a charity please email Jonathan Fagan at cv@ten-percent.co.uk. We consider all requests very carefully.  Jonathan Fagan is Managing Director of Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment and a non-practising Solicitor. Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment provides on...

Legal Recruitment News January 2021

Legal Recruitment News includes a legal job market report, hourly rates guide for locums, a state of the market report for the sale of law firms and articles on job interviews, buying a law firm for nothing and interview techniques. January 2021 edition.  Click the link below to read:  https://www.jonathanfagan.co.uk/legal-recruitment-news-january-2021/   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.

Annual Predictions from a Psychic for 2020 - how well did he do?

  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 his predictions for 2020 taken from his website at the start of the year: War in the Middle East - hmm - sort of correct (but then there is always a war occurring in the Middle East - its a bit like predicting that it will rain in Wales). Trump Reelected - incorrect Boris Marries Carrie Symonds - incorrect Meghan Markle Pregnancy - sort of correct! Revolution in China - incorrect European Economic Crisis - incorrect Yvette Cooper becomes the leader of the Labour Party. - incorrect Prince Charles will be hit by an egg. - incorrect (unless Camilla threw one at him and nobody knows). Elizabeth Warren will be the Democrat Presidential Contender - incorrect. Total score - 1/2 out of 9. Megan was pre...