Legal Recruitment News | August 2026 Has the summer legal job market gone on holiday? August is normally one of the busiest months for locum legal recruitment. This year the market has been steady rather than busy, while permanent recruitment and candidate registrations remain subdued. Read the complete August newsletter → 20 new locum roles 14 new permanent roles 47 new candidates 43 law firms for sale Locum work is usually particularly active during August. Partners, solicitors and support staff take holidays, files still need to be covered and firms often require experienced lawyers at relatively short notice. That has not really happened in 2026. Our figures for July show fewer new locum roles, permanent vacancies and candidate registrations than during the same period last year. We recorded 47 new candidate registrations, compared with 73 ...
Jonathan Fagan, MD of Ten Percent Legal Recruitment with his lovely medal On 26th April 2026 I completed the London Marathon. Big deal you might think. In fact before I completed the marathon this was exactly what I thought. Its not such a great achievement these days; most people run a marathon at some point and its not that far anymore. Eddie Izzard managed 28 consecutive marathons and didn't seem too badly scarred for life. Having completed the marathon, I can say that it is tough, particularly on a hot day in London. The marathon this year was seriously hot - 20+ degrees celsius. These are my random thoughts on London Marathon running: 1. You must be completely crazy to want to do this for fun. 2. I am never doing a marathon again. Once was quite enough. As someone said to me post-marathon - I have run two marathons today, my first and my last. 3. Taking sandals to wear at the end of the race was a life saver. 4. Walking down stairs...