Legal Recruitment Blog

Welcome to the October 2024 edition of Legal Recruitment News. It includes our legal job market report, locum hourly rates, tips for employees & employers, making your law firm more saleable, spotlight on one of our charity donations and a salary level guide.   https://legal-recruitment.co.uk/legal-recruitment-news-october-2024/ 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.

The Employment Agency Standards Inspectorate (EAS) has recently introduced a new system for agency workers to file complaints against recruitment agencies. This new process makes it easier for workers to report issues and helps them understand what the EAS can investigate. This ensures a more efficient and transparent system for all parties involved. How to Make a Complaint If you’re an agency worker and want to complain about a recruitment agency, you must first gather relevant evidence to support your case. This evidence may include written communications with the agency, contracts or terms of employment, assignment or pay documents, timesheets, payslips, and any other supporting documentation. Next, contact the EAS by email or phone and give them a summary of your complaint. It’s important to know that you must allow the EAS to share your name with the agency for them to investigate your complaint. What the EAS Can Investigate The EAS oversees making sure recruit...

Welcome to the September 2024 edition of Legal Recruitment News. It includes our legal job market report, locum hourly rates, job references – tips for employees & employers, law firm valuation & sale queries, a full list of our charity donations for 2024 to date and a salary level guide. https://legal-recruitment.co.uk/september-2024-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, Licensed Conveyancers, Legal Cashiers, Fee Earners, Support Staff, Managers and Paralegals . Visit our Website to search our Vacancy Database.

W elcome to the August 2024 edition of Legal Recruitment News. It includes our legal job market report, locum hourly rates, articles on different types of law firm buyer, toxic cultures, avoiding problems hiring locums, spotlight on the Cure Parkinson's Trust and a salary level guide. https://legal-recruitment.co.uk/legal-recruitment-news-august-2024/ 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.

Good morning and welcome to the July 2024 edition of Legal Recruitment News. It includes our legal job market report, locum hourly rates, articles on valuation techniques for law firms, empowering employees, new approaches to recruitment, spotlight on KIM Inspire in Wrexham, a charity we recently supported, and a salary level guide. All our past newsletters are available on our Legal Recruitment News website. https://legal-recruitment.co.uk/legal-recruitment-news-july-2024/   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.

Welcome to the June 2024 edition of Legal Recruitment News. It includes our legal job market report, locum hourly rates, articles on pdf CVs, interview research and how to approach a firm you would like to buy, spotlight on a Notts charity we recently supported and a salary level guide. All our past newsletters are available on our Legal Recruitment News website here .  https://legal-recruitment.co.uk/legal-recruitment-news-june-2024/   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.

Welcome to the May 2024 edition of Legal Recruitment News. It includes our legal job market report, locum hourly rates, articles on locums using umbrella companies, succession for law firm owners, the trials & tribulations of being a recruiter, spotlight on an African charity we recently supported and a salary level guide. All our past newsletters are available on our Legal Recruitment News website here .  https://legal-recruitment.co.uk/legal-recruitment-news-may-2024/ 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.

April 2024 edition of Legal Recruitment News. It includes our legal job market report, locum hourly rates, articles on legal recruitment trends for 2024, our charity donations, 10 tips for improving the value of your law firm, psychometric testing and a salary level guide. All our past newsletters are available on our Legal Recruitment News website here .  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.

  Charity Donations & Volunteers Wanted Volunteers & Charity Donation Nominations Wanted for the Ten Percent Foundation Ten Percent Legal Recruitment and Interim Lawyers donate 10% of annual net profits to charity via the Ten Percent Foundation, a charitable trust set up to distribute monies to charities in the UK and Africa. We have been doing this for over 20 years and by way of example in 2023 our charitable donation from our group of companies is £30,290.76. The Foundation never incurs any administration costs (other than very small Triodos bank charges) - all monies are distributed to charities. We are looking for two things at the moment: Suggest a charity We would love to hear of your nominations for worthy causes we can donate to. To suggest a charity please email Jonathan Fagan at jbfagan@ten-percent.co.uk with the name of the charity, anything you think we would like to know about it and any experiences you may have had of the charity's work. A lo...

W elcome to the March 2024 edition of Legal Recruitment News. It includes our legal job market report, locum hourly rates and articles on our charity donations, nominations for 2024, deal structure vs valuations, a volunteer request, getting headhunted on LinkedIn and a salary level guide. All our past newsletters are available on our Legal Recruitment News website here .   http://www.legal-recruitment.co.uk/legal-recruitment-news-march-2024/   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.

February 2024 edition of Legal Recruitment News. It includes our legal job market report, locum hourly rates and articles on a range of topics including selling law firms, 5 years PQE - what next, and whether you should become a locum.    http://www.legal-recruitment.co.uk/legal-recruitment-news-february-2024/   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.

Welcome to the January 2024 edition of Legal Recruitment News. It includes our legal job market report, locum hourly rates and articles on career planning, horrible bosses and four day working weeks. All our past newsletters are available on our Legal Recruitment News website here. Ten Percent Legal Recruitment can be found here . Link for the January 2024 Legal Recruitment Newsletter   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.

Despite the assertion from certain politicians that the age of boom and bust was over (I wonder if Gordon Brown ever regrets saying this?), it is clear that the next few years the economy is in for a bit of a ride, to say the least.     The legal sector always seems to be more quickly affected than others because of its overwhelming connection to the property market in lots of different ways. Our experience of recruitment is that when the property market booms, law firms’ turnovers increase, regardless of whether or not the firm undertakes property work.  Property Market Downturns Do Not Result in Lots of New Candidates There is a property connection in lots of different ways, and in good times recruitment can be very difficult because there are very few staff around looking, and in bad times recruitment works in the opposite way, because anyone good will stay firmly put for fear of losing their job if their new firm gets into difficulty, and anyone who works at a firm ...