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Legal Recruitment News September 2025

 Welcome to the September 2025 edition of Legal Recruitment News. It includes our legal job market report, locum hourly rates, a solicitor salary guide, articles on PII and law firm sales, MOJ seizing client interest, writing references and a spotlight on one of our charity donations.

https://legal-recruitment.co.uk/legal-recruitment-news-september-2025/ 

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.

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