tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-368393052024-03-13T21:02:41.778+00:00Legal Recruitment BlogAward winning blog with 100s of articles on the legal profession, <a href="http://www.ten-percent.co.uk">legal recruitment</a> and legal job markets by Jonathan Fagan, MD of <a href="http://www.ten-percent.co.uk">Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment</a>, recruitment consultants based in the UK providing a full range of services for solicitors.Jonathan Faganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11711472001853618516noreply@blogger.comBlogger489125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36839305.post-83363420248383821212024-02-21T08:40:00.004+00:002024-02-21T08:40:25.779+00:00Legal Recruitment News February 2024<p>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. </p><p> </p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.legal-recruitment.co.uk/legal-recruitment-news-february-2024/">http://www.legal-recruitment.co.uk/legal-recruitment-news-february-2024/</a><br /></h3><p> <br /></p><p>Jonathan Fagan is Managing Director of Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment and a non-practising Solicitor. <a href="http://www.ten-percent.co.uk/">Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment provides online Legal Recruitment for Solicitors, Legal Executives, Licensed Conveyancers, Legal Cashiers, Fee Earners, Support Staff, Managers and Paralegals</a>. Visit our Website to search our Vacancy Database.</p>Jonathan Faganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11711472001853618516noreply@blogger.com0London, UK51.5072178 -0.127586223.196983963821154 -35.2838362 79.817451636178845 35.0286638tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36839305.post-45816808641010233312024-01-20T07:07:00.000+00:002024-01-20T07:07:02.249+00:00Legal Recruitment News January 2024<p>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 <a href="http://www.legal-recruitment.co.uk">Legal Recruitment News</a> website here. <a href="https://www.ten-percent.co.uk">Ten Percent Legal Recruitment can be found here</a>.</p><p><br /></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.legal-recruitment.co.uk/legal-recruitment-news-january-2024/">Link for the January 2024 Legal Recruitment Newsletter</a><br /></h2><p> </p><p>Jonathan Fagan is Managing Director of Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment and a non-practising Solicitor. <a href="http://www.ten-percent.co.uk/">Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment provides online Legal Recruitment for Solicitors, Legal Executives, Licensed Conveyancers, Legal Cashiers, Fee Earners, Support Staff, Managers and Paralegals</a>. Visit our Website to search our Vacancy Database.</p>Jonathan Faganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11711472001853618516noreply@blogger.com0London, UK51.5072178 -0.127586223.196983963821154 -35.2838362 79.817451636178845 35.0286638tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36839305.post-83999217865318156212024-01-06T07:40:00.001+00:002024-01-06T07:40:14.545+00:00Recession Proof Recruitment - Unlimited Legal Recruitment Services<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 18.0pt; tab-stops: 49.65pt 3.0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">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.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </span></p><h3 class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 18pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></h3><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 18.0pt; tab-stops: 49.65pt 3.0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">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. </span></p><h3 class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 18pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Property Market Downturns Do Not Result in Lots of New Candidates<br /></span></h3><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 18.0pt; tab-stops: 49.65pt 3.0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">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 that gets into difficulty will find it difficult to obtain a new post,
because the salaries on offer from firms actively recruiting will be
considerably lower than the one they are just leaving. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 18.0pt; tab-stops: 49.65pt 3.0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">This means that despite
assertions from certain employers that when the market contracts the
recruitment market is suddenly awash with high quality candidates they can
scoop up to add to their own business, nothing could be further from the truth. </span></p><h3 class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 18pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Recruitment Gets Harder <br /></span></h3><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 18.0pt; tab-stops: 49.65pt 3.0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">In some ways, recruitment gets harder, because all businesses have to justify
the cost of recruitment, and generate money from any new staff member they take
on. When markets drop, firms naturally want to pay lower wages, because the
prospects of generating income are lower, but employees rarely want to change
jobs for less money, and so only do so if they are desperate, which leads on to
the never-ending circle of high quality candidates being in short supply
regardless of the market, and lower quality (and hence expensive) candidates being available
at varying times depending on the state of the economy. </span></p><h3 class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 18pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Ten Percent Unlimited Recruitment Services <br /></span></h3>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 18.0pt; tab-stops: 49.65pt 3.0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">There is a way to recession-proof your
recruitment needs, and that is to consider using the Ten Percent Unlimited
<a href="https://www.tenpercentunlimited.co.uk">legal recruitment service</a>. Ten Percent Unlimited is a fixed price recruitment service that
involves paying a low monthly fee in return for as much or as little recruitment as
you want to do. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 18.0pt; tab-stops: 49.65pt 3.0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">This means two things: firstly, there are no expensive
recruitment fees payable if you manage to find someone through the service,
because the only price you pay is the monthly fee, and the second point is that
if that member of staff leaves or you have need to terminate their employment
because work has dropped, you are not left with huge recruitment costs, because
no fees have been payable for the placement of a candidate. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 18.0pt; tab-stops: 49.65pt 3.0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The monthly fee simply covers the any recruitment consultancy services you may need, which includes Law
Society Gazette and Reed job board advertising amongst others, but more importantly our own vast
candidate database over over 10,000 solicitors, which is where we get the overwhelming majority of our
placements from. </span></p><h3 class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 18pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Established in 2011 <br /></span></h3>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 18.0pt; tab-stops: 49.65pt 3.0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">We set the service up back in 2011, when
we had identified that the legal recruitment market was struggling on the
permanent side following the recession in 2008. At a time when the economy was
not really doing a lot, we had over 100 law firm members using the service,
because they could see the benefit of having access to potential candidates but
not having to pay out large amounts of recruitment fees each time they managed
to find someone. The service worked particularly well for smaller practices who
are simply unable to afford the advertising spend, or the recruitment fees
charged by a conventional recruitment business (which we offer as well). </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 18.0pt; tab-stops: 49.65pt 3.0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Recruitment is not guaranteed (no recruitment ever is - we are dealing with humans, not robots!), so you may post a vacancy to
recruit but not actually manage to fill the post using the service. However,
you do get to advertise for as long and as often as you want to, and the
service can be used alongside other forms of recruitment if wanted. </span></p><h3 class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 18pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Get in Touch <br /></span></h3>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 18.0pt; tab-stops: 49.65pt 3.0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">So, if you would like your own
recruitment consultant working for your business at a very low monthly fee,
please get in touch. We have been providing this service for over 10 years, and
it works incredibly smoothly for all our clients. </span></p>
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<p></p><p>Jonathan Fagan is Managing Director of Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment and a non-practising Solicitor. <a href="http://www.ten-percent.co.uk/">Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment provides online Legal Recruitment for Solicitors, Legal Executives, Licensed Conveyancers, Legal Cashiers, Fee Earners, Support Staff, Managers and Paralegals</a>. Visit our Website to search our Vacancy Database.</p>Jonathan Faganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11711472001853618516noreply@blogger.com0London, UK51.5072178 -0.127586223.196983963821154 -35.2838362 79.817451636178845 35.0286638tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36839305.post-74184550791493611622023-11-22T20:27:00.006+00:002023-11-22T20:27:46.152+00:00Legal Recruitment News November 2023<p><span class="module-2 text-container" style="text-align: left;">November 2023 edition of Legal Recruitment
News. It includes our legal job market report, locum hourly rates,
getting into locuming and advice for law firms on improving the chances
of sale. All our past newsletters are available on our <a href="http://www.legal-recruitment.co.uk" style="color: #597bb7; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Legal Recruitment News website here</a>.</span></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"> <a href="http://www.legal-recruitment.co.uk/legal-recruitment-news-november-2023/">http://www.legal-recruitment.co.uk/legal-recruitment-news-november-2023/</a></h3><p>Jonathan Fagan is Managing Director of Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment and a non-practising Solicitor. <a href="http://www.ten-percent.co.uk/">Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment provides online Legal Recruitment for Solicitors, Legal Executives, Licensed Conveyancers, Legal Cashiers, Fee Earners, Support Staff, Managers and Paralegals</a>. Visit our Website to search our Vacancy Database.</p>Jonathan Faganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11711472001853618516noreply@blogger.com0London, UK51.5072178 -0.127586218.83166081936924 -35.2838362 84.182774780630751 35.0286638tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36839305.post-34074055677522770822023-10-27T07:34:00.001+01:002023-10-27T07:34:33.177+01:00Legal Recruitment News October 2023<p>Welcome to the October 2023 edition of Legal Recruitment News. It includes our<br />legal job market report, locum hourly rates, getting into locuming and advice for law firms on<br />improving the chances of sale.</p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.legal-recruitment.co.uk/october-2023-legal-recruitment-news/"> http://www.legal-recruitment.co.uk/october-2023-legal-recruitment-news/</a></h3><p></p><p>Jonathan Fagan is Managing Director of Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment and a non-practising Solicitor. <a href="http://www.ten-percent.co.uk/">Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment provides online Legal Recruitment for Solicitors, Legal Executives, Licensed Conveyancers, Legal Cashiers, Fee Earners, Support Staff, Managers and Paralegals</a>. Visit our Website to search our Vacancy Database.</p>Jonathan Faganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11711472001853618516noreply@blogger.com0London, UK51.5072178 -0.127586223.196983963821154 -35.2838362 79.817451636178845 35.0286638tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36839305.post-51346291474566845782023-10-27T07:31:00.000+01:002023-10-27T07:31:10.801+01:00The Law Firm M&A Market & PII Update - round table expert discussion<p> <span class="module-6 text-container" style="text-align: left;"></span></p><h1 align="left" style="color: #372d2d; display: block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; width: 100%;"><strong style="font-weight: bold;">The Law Firm M&A Market & PII Update</strong></h1> <p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">Jonathan
Fagan (the writer) was recently invited to attend a round table
discussion about the current law firm M&A market, organised by <a href="https://www.jonathonbray.com/" style="color: #597bb7; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Jonathon Bray Limited</a>,
specialists for ABS formations, COLP, COFA outsourcing and risk &
compliance, and a company we often recommend to our clients.</p> <p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">In
attendance were myself (Jonathan Fagan, MD of the Ten Percent Group),
Jeff Zindani, MD of Acquira Professional Services, Racheal Eyre of
Jonathon Bray Limited, and Gary Horswell, MD of Ntegrity, specialist PII
brokers.</p> <p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">Summary of the conversation is taken from the Lexology report.</p> <h2 align="left" style="color: #cb575f; display: block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; width: 100%;">Law firm M&A: There are lots of deals going through, but we have no idea how many</h2> <p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">Jeff
reported a buoyant market for law firm acquisitions and mergers.
However, the lack of data from regulators means that there is a “lot of
noise…and nobody really knows what is happening with smaller firms”.
Jonathan Fagan added that a lot of deals [mentioned in the Gazette] are
“dressed up as mergers or something more positive”, when in actual fact
the driver of the acquisition is that one party is in distress.</p> <p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">“Some
buyers are very strategic,” according to Jeff. They are very careful
about what they are looking for, not just adding an office for top line
growth. As an expert dealing with boutique firms, he highlighted some
practice areas that are in high demand, such as tax advisory, regulatory
compliance and certain types of litigation. On the flip side, buyers
may “get spooked by a firm with a large conveyancing practice”, mainly
due to insurance concerns, and low value personal injury and consumer
work is unlikely to be attractive to strategic buyers.</p> <p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">Firms
looking to sell do need to plan for their exit. “Try to get as far away
from the day-to-day fee earning as you possibly can”, advised Jonathan,
so that the buyer can see that it can run without you. Geography, the
firm’s regulatory history and whether has already converted to ABS, can
affect the attractiveness of a practice. “Firms with a poor claims
record tend to struggle”.</p> <p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">According
to Jeff, “the exit planning side is critical”. Accessible financial
information from reliable case management systems is important, as is
making sure there is an alignment between your website and what your
practice actually does. But he “wouldn’t be spending too much on website
redesign when you don’t really need to.”</p> <p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">The
insurance aspect of law firm M&A is “challenging and
circumstance-specific”, according to Gary Horswell, Managing Director of
Ntegrity, the specialist law firm insurance broker. “The insurers are
really looking for a fair presentation of risk, and they do look at
websites and they do look at regulatory history”. “Specialist brokers
will know the risk appetite of all the main carriers,” Gary commented.
Getting as much due diligence information on the target firm, including
the last PII renewal details, and getting insurer input from an early
stage, will give buyers a head start.</p> <p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">Funding
deals – not just the acquisition price, but also the working capital
requirements – is a fundamental and often overlooked part of the M&A
picture. “The funding challenge needs to be tackled,” added Jeff
Zindani, otherwise insurers will identify financial risk issues that
need to be addressed.</p> <p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">Jonathan
Fagan commented that sellers are sometimes equally guilty of failing to
find out how the buyer intends to fund working capital to ensure the
continued success of the firm.</p> <p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">One
of the headline compliance issues involved in law firm M&A is
conflicts of interests – particularly where buyer and seller work in
similar markets. Confidentiality issues throughout the deal can be
tricky to manage, too. Racheal Eyre commented that ethical walls may
need to be built around practice areas or even individual team members,
to ensure there are no inadvertent breaches of professional duties.</p> <p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">She
added that “one of the biggest bugbears with risk and compliance is
getting people out of the mindset of doing things the way we have always
done them”. When two firms are merging, careful consideration needs to
be given to how policies, procedures and controls can be aligned, as
well as culture.</p> <p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">“Risk
and compliance can completely torpedo a deal”, agreed Jeff, and yet it
is often overlooked by sellers because they are emotionally invested in
the deal itself.</p> <p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">Buyers
and sellers should also do more due diligence around culture and
people, according to Jeff. “The best buyers treat it as a process over a
number of months, getting to know that firm really well – that will
reduce the risk. Getting into bed with a firm with a completely
different culture may make it impossible to work together”.</p> <p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">“Both sides need to trust each other”, concurred Jonathan.</p> <h2 align="left" style="color: #cb575f; display: block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; width: 100%;">Insurance update: Two thirds of law firms still renew their PII at the end of September</h2> <p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">Gary
Horswell noted that this post-Summer rush to renew “inevitably creates
bottlenecks and insurers have got surprisingly little time to take a
look at risks, so the presentations are key, they are so important”.</p> <p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">Gary
advises that firms take sufficient time to prepare their renewal
proposals, making sure that they are clearly understandable, that the
numbers add up correctly, and with supporting information where
possible. Insurers are increasingly looking at whether firms are well
run, on top of compliance and financially sound. This should be a focus
of the firm’s presentation.</p> <p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">However,
there are reasons to be cheerful about market conditions generally.
Ntegrity’s experience during this renewal cycle is that most firms are
not seeing increases in premium as a percentage of turnover. Indeed,
some insurers are competing for the business of larger firms and
“encouragingly, we are seeing a slightly more relaxed approach to
conveyancing”.</p> <p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">What
is driving these more favourable market conditions? “We’ve been through
a pandemic and there was a lot of panic, which probably turned out to
be unjustified, around people working from home, not being scrutinised
and monitored,” Gary commented. “And quite simply, a lot of insurers’
results have been coming through quite healthily so they are all looking
to grow their books of business”.</p> <p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">For the full Lexology report of the round table discussion, please visit <a href="https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=4a30d7ff-ade0-44d5-ba6d-a7a0c5019644" style="color: #597bb7; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=4a30d7ff-ade0-44d5-ba6d-a7a0c5019644</a></p><p></p><p>Jonathan Fagan is Managing Director of Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment and a non-practising Solicitor. <a href="http://www.ten-percent.co.uk/">Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment provides online Legal Recruitment for Solicitors, Legal Executives, Licensed Conveyancers, Legal Cashiers, Fee Earners, Support Staff, Managers and Paralegals</a>. Visit our Website to search our Vacancy Database.</p>Jonathan Faganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11711472001853618516noreply@blogger.com0London, UK51.5072178 -0.127586223.196983963821154 -35.2838362 79.817451636178845 35.0286638tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36839305.post-79534647528295362892023-09-17T07:16:00.002+01:002023-09-17T07:16:29.699+01:00Legal Recruitment News September 2023<p>Legal Recruitment News September 2023. </p><p><span class="module-2 text-container" style="text-align: left;">Welcome to the September 2023 edition of Legal Recruitment
News. It includes our legal job market report, locum hourly rates,
getting into locuming and advice for law firms on improving the chances
of sale.</span></p><p></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.legal-recruitment.co.uk/legal-recruitment-news-september-2023/">http://www.legal-recruitment.co.uk/legal-recruitment-news-september-2023/</a><br /></h3><p>Jonathan Fagan is Managing Director of Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment and a non-practising Solicitor. <a href="http://www.ten-percent.co.uk/">Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment provides online Legal Recruitment for Solicitors, Legal Executives, Licensed Conveyancers, Legal Cashiers, Fee Earners, Support Staff, Managers and Paralegals</a>. Visit our Website to search our Vacancy Database.</p>Jonathan Faganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11711472001853618516noreply@blogger.com0London, UK51.5072178 -0.127586223.196983963821154 -35.2838362 79.817451636178845 35.0286638tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36839305.post-37764332424670012672023-08-21T14:21:00.001+01:002023-08-21T14:21:10.191+01:00Legal Recruitment News August 2023<p> <span class="module-2 text-container" style="text-align: left;">Good
morning and welcome to the August 2023 edition of Legal Recruitment
News. It includes our legal job market report, locum hourly rates,
advice for locums and small law firms on improving the chances of sale.</span></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span class="module-2 text-container" style="text-align: left;">http://www.legal-recruitment.co.uk/legal-recruitment-news-august-2023/ <br /></span></h3><p>Jonathan Fagan is Managing Director of Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment and a non-practising Solicitor. <a href="http://www.ten-percent.co.uk/">Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment provides online Legal Recruitment for Solicitors, Legal Executives, Licensed Conveyancers, Legal Cashiers, Fee Earners, Support Staff, Managers and Paralegals</a>. Visit our Website to search our Vacancy Database.</p>Jonathan Faganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11711472001853618516noreply@blogger.com0London, UK51.5072178 -0.127586223.196983963821154 -35.2838362 79.817451636178845 35.0286638tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36839305.post-87844705689842197412023-06-03T07:41:00.004+01:002023-06-03T07:41:34.711+01:00Bloody Lawyers! A rant about lawyers by a lawyer<p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 18.0pt; tab-stops: 49.65pt 3.0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">It’s not often that on a legal recruitment blog about lawyers we
rant a lot about lawyers as probably just about everyone reading this is a
lawyer, but this is a rant about lawyers and I make no apology for it before
starting! </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 18.0pt; tab-stops: 49.65pt 3.0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Ten Percent Legal Recruitment over the years has offered numerous
free services and then instantly regretted offering them, because people always
want more than the free service offers, or they view it as a free service and
simply don’t bother going ahead. </span></p><h3 class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 18pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Free CV Reviews <br /></span></h3><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 18.0pt; tab-stops: 49.65pt 3.0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">One of the remnants of our free services is
our free CV review which, although we no longer advertise, still exists on our
website and comes up quite prominently in any searches where somebody types in
‘free legal CV’ or ‘free legal CV review’.</span></p><h3 class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 18pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Information Published <br /></span></h3>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 18.0pt; tab-stops: 49.65pt 3.0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The free legal CV review has a rather large catch with it, which
is that if you send us your CV for a free legal CV review we will take your
name and contact details off of it and publish it on our website along with our
feedback on the CV. For those who do not want their CV published on the website
together with our feedback, there is the option to purchase a legal CV review
from our legal careers shop, a service we have been offering for many years and well
below the actual cost price.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 18.0pt; tab-stops: 49.65pt 3.0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The free legal CV review gets used about once a month by
law students, graduates, paralegals and occasionally solicitors, and this
article is a rant about a qualified lawyer who recently came to use the
service. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 18.0pt; tab-stops: 49.65pt 3.0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The webpage for the free legal CV review is very specific, and in
fact looking back at it as something I wrote back in 2014, it is a little bit
rude. We state very clearly that if you send us the CV we reserve the right to
be as blunt and to the point about it as we like, and we will definitely
publish the CV along with our guidance and advice on our website and we will
not accept any email correspondence in relation to it. </span></p><h3 class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 18pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Paid Reviews only £65 <br /></span></h3>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 18.0pt; tab-stops: 49.65pt 3.0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The cost of a paid CV review is £65, and for
this our clients get a full CV review by one of our directors, together with a
full breakdown of everything that’s right or wrong with it and suggestions on
improvement, together with a further CV check. The actual cost of this service
is probably somewhere closer to around £250 in terms of our director’s time,
but we’ve always enjoyed giving legal careers advice and so it’s almost a bit
of a philanthropic gesture for us to provide the service at well below cost
price. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 18.0pt; tab-stops: 49.65pt 3.0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The free CV review goes one step further and in fact has only any value
at all to us if we’re able to publish the review on our website for others to
see and to follow our advice accordingly, which is why we offer the free CV review
service (and make it very clear on the website).</span></p><h3 class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 18pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Senior Legal Counsel - Free Review <br /></span></h3>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 18.0pt; tab-stops: 49.65pt 3.0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">A few weeks ago we received a CV from a senior legal counsel based
in London and with extensive background in the banking and finance sectors.
This particular lawyer had requested a free CV review. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 18.0pt; tab-stops: 49.65pt 3.0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">We completed the CV review, which, it has to be said, was
particularly complex because this particular lawyer had extensive experience
and we needed to read it all, blanked their name, most recent firm and contact
details off their CV and posted the CV together with the extensive advice from
one of our directors onto our website. We then sent the lawyer a link to their
CV and our feedback. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 18.0pt; tab-stops: 49.65pt 3.0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">We were expecting a quick email back to say, “Wow that’s
wonderful, thank you very much for your efforts, most appreciated, and what a
great service you offer to lawyers without actually charging them,” but alas
this was not the case. Today we received an email from the lawyer advising us
that, although they were aware of our terms and conditions in relation to the
CV and it being published on our website, they wanted us to remove the CV from
the website because it identified them through their previous work history and
experience and skills. </span></p><h3 class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 18pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Free Services - never straightforward<br /></span></h3>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 18.0pt; tab-stops: 49.65pt 3.0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 18.0pt; tab-stops: 49.65pt 3.0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">We refused point blank to remove the CV from our website, pointed out the
terms they had agreed to when they sent it to us, and suggested that if there
was anything identifying them on the CV that was on our website, they should
tell us and we could remove it, but under no circumstances were we removing the
CV or the article from our website having completed it. I did politely suggest
that if the lawyer wanted to have a private CV review then they were very
welcome to pay the £65 and I would delete the CV. We await their response! <br /></span></p><h3 class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 18pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Rant about Freebies<br /></span></h3>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 18.0pt; tab-stops: 49.65pt 3.0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">So this article is essentially a rant about providing free
services with an altruistic intention and immediately finding that in fact it
is more trouble than it’s worth, because people never appreciate why a service
is being provided and always want something more regardless of what it is. The
person who has contacted us has indicated to us that they are fully aware that
one of the conditions of the service is that we are able to publish the CV and
our feedback on the website, but has then gone completely against this and asked
for it to be removed. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 18.0pt; tab-stops: 49.65pt 3.0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I’m still slightly annoyed that a service
that was more suited to law students and graduates who may not have £65 to pay
us to do a professional review has
been exploited by a very senior lawyer who no doubt is earning a six figure
salary (or capable of earning a six figure salary) but still chose to use the
free service and then not just satisfied with that, has then attempted to get
round this and get the same service as the paid service by threatening us to
remove their CV from our website. </span></p>
<h3 class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 18pt; text-align: left;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Disappearing Service<br /></span></b></h3>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 18.0pt; tab-stops: 49.65pt 3.0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">This will probably be coming up at our next board meeting, and I
suspect the free CV review will be disappearing from our website sometime soon
as the directors will not be wanting to be bothered messing about with
ridiculous claims like this one. </span></p><h3 class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 18pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Disastrous Free Job Creation Scheme <br /></span></h3>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 18.0pt; tab-stops: 49.65pt 3.0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">It takes me back to when we first set the company up and had the
great idea of offering a free job creation scheme to paralegals and graduates.
We would enable law firms to contact us to request details of non-qualified or
experienced recent graduates, and to just pay us a £50 fee if they were to take
anybody on. We found within about six months that this simply didn’t work, not
because we didn’t get anybody enquiries from graduates or firms – we got loads
– but that when we actually found a couple of people good quality jobs through
it, they either turned up for a few days and then disappeared or simply didn’t
turn up at all, which left us needing to look around for someone else, all for
the price of £50. This was utterly and completely uneconomic and made the
company directors at the time so annoyed we decided we would never be doing
anything like this again. </span></p><h3 class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 18pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Free services never work <br /></span></h3>
<p><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">When you offer a service for next to nothing or nothing, it’s
almost guaranteed that this will cause you more headaches than a service that
you offer at a reasonable price, and I guess the difference is that when you’re
offering it for next to nothing, when something goes wrong you
immediately get more annoyed than you would have done if someone had challenged
a service you were offering and getting paid the correct amount for. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Okay,
that’s the end of the rant and I hope the senior lawyer in this case doesn’t
decide to threaten us with all kinds of different actions, but we shall see!</span> <br /></p><p></p><p>Jonathan Fagan is Managing Director of Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment and a non-practising Solicitor. <a href="http://www.ten-percent.co.uk/">Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment provides online Legal Recruitment for Solicitors, Legal Executives, Licensed Conveyancers, Legal Cashiers, Fee Earners, Support Staff, Managers and Paralegals</a>. Visit our Website to search our Vacancy Database.</p>Jonathan Faganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11711472001853618516noreply@blogger.com0London, UK51.5072178 -0.127586223.196983963821154 -35.2838362 79.817451636178845 35.0286638tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36839305.post-27188683540083823982023-05-22T15:42:00.002+01:002023-05-22T15:42:12.171+01:00Legal Recruitment News May 2023<p></p><p><span class="module-2 text-container" style="text-align: left;">Welcome to the May 2023 edition of Legal Recruitment News.
It includes our legal job market report, locum hourly rates, advice for
small law firms, strategic career planning for lawyers and more.</span></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span class="module-2 text-container" style="text-align: left;"> </span></h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span class="module-2 text-container" style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.legal-recruitment.co.uk/legal-recruitment-news-may-2023/" target="_blank">http://www.legal-recruitment.co.uk/legal-recruitment-news-may-2023/ </a></span></h3><p><span class="module-2 text-container" style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></p><p>Jonathan Fagan is Managing Director of Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment and a non-practising Solicitor. <a href="http://www.ten-percent.co.uk/">Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment provides online Legal Recruitment for Solicitors, Legal Executives, Licensed Conveyancers, Legal Cashiers, Fee Earners, Support Staff, Managers and Paralegals</a>. Visit our Website to search our Vacancy Database.</p>Jonathan Faganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11711472001853618516noreply@blogger.com0London, UK51.5072178 -0.127586223.196983963821154 -35.2838362 79.817451636178845 35.0286638tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36839305.post-74452819385199610992023-04-22T07:36:00.001+01:002023-04-22T07:36:01.416+01:00Legal Recruitment News April 2023<p>Good morning and welcome to the April 2023 edition of Legal Recruitment
News. It includes our legal job market report, locum hourly rates,
advice for improving the value of a law firm, nominations for donations
and more.</p><p> </p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.legal-recruitment.co.uk/legal-recruitment-news-april-2023/">http://www.legal-recruitment.co.uk/legal-recruitment-news-april-2023/</a></h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"> <br /></h3><p>Jonathan Fagan is Managing Director of Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment and a non-practising Solicitor. <a href="http://www.ten-percent.co.uk/">Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment provides online Legal Recruitment for Solicitors, Legal Executives, Licensed Conveyancers, Legal Cashiers, Fee Earners, Support Staff, Managers and Paralegals</a>. Visit our Website to search our Vacancy Database.</p>Jonathan Faganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11711472001853618516noreply@blogger.com0London, UK51.5072178 -0.127586223.196983963821154 -35.2838362 79.817451636178845 35.0286638tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36839305.post-159026376725265352023-03-22T10:54:00.004+00:002023-03-22T10:54:33.356+00:00Legal Recruitment News March 2023<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span class="module-2 text-container" style="text-align: left;">Good
morning and welcome to the March 2023 edition of Legal Recruitment News.
It includes our legal job market report, locum hourly rates,
nominations for donations and more.</span></h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.legal-recruitment.co.uk/legal-recruitment-news-march-2023/"> http://www.legal-recruitment.co.uk/legal-recruitment-news-march-2023/</a></h3><p> </p><p>Jonathan Fagan is Managing Director of Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment and a non-practising Solicitor. <a href="http://www.ten-percent.co.uk/">Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment provides online Legal Recruitment for Solicitors, Legal Executives, Licensed Conveyancers, Legal Cashiers, Fee Earners, Support Staff, Managers and Paralegals</a>. Visit our Website to search our Vacancy Database.</p>Jonathan Faganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11711472001853618516noreply@blogger.com0London, UK51.5072178 -0.127586223.196983963821154 -35.2838362 79.817451636178845 35.0286638tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36839305.post-59898784105171819702023-03-01T11:04:00.002+00:002023-03-22T10:41:23.146+00:00Holiday Cottage in Shropshire - 20% off all bookings to Legal Recruitment blog readers<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX00vB7i9qniVvHMsYyMUE2Mn5iALBqY8G01iobDr-2rOpk-odur_QDu7qxhGJqJEImqO2qlBSziXq6rZs-tByW0gZ75RlXcqHb7nybmm9zveuXFSgiHP1rV_RR8--1y5Ene5uDM4bqJeXzk5TT78ouypV8hOFD66ETfrwtwOotNlwaDJx-g/s3748/IMG_8778%20cropped%202.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2188" data-original-width="3748" height="187" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX00vB7i9qniVvHMsYyMUE2Mn5iALBqY8G01iobDr-2rOpk-odur_QDu7qxhGJqJEImqO2qlBSziXq6rZs-tByW0gZ75RlXcqHb7nybmm9zveuXFSgiHP1rV_RR8--1y5Ene5uDM4bqJeXzk5TT78ouypV8hOFD66ETfrwtwOotNlwaDJx-g/s320/IMG_8778%20cropped%202.png" width="320" /></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRkdhgfAo5fpEAEnKbJ9T9vIS9X1nYLmGvTdJKH7_KZdlwXJkHFatzRzdBoSBjl7fRAmNv8qoX7QV1PfWxehWht0geMKoPJyUnqCoAxmUtpG0rVSOHNbnOfbCqDIDXBpQQjD97N-PoUAWTT5p2MDnX2vQdBngu70ceMEIM7LXI5CE0Wstfrw/s300/Logo-02%20300%20252.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="252" data-original-width="300" height="252" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRkdhgfAo5fpEAEnKbJ9T9vIS9X1nYLmGvTdJKH7_KZdlwXJkHFatzRzdBoSBjl7fRAmNv8qoX7QV1PfWxehWht0geMKoPJyUnqCoAxmUtpG0rVSOHNbnOfbCqDIDXBpQQjD97N-PoUAWTT5p2MDnX2vQdBngu70ceMEIM7LXI5CE0Wstfrw/s1600/Logo-02%20300%20252.png" width="300" /></a></div></div>St Milburga Chapel in the Shropshire Hills is a 4 person, Grade 2 listed holiday home in open
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Transcription Limited and University Transcriptions 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 2022 our charitable donation was £25,469.80. The Foundation never
incurs any administration costs - all monies are distributed to
charities. We are looking for our clients and transcribers to suggest
charities we can donate to in 2023.</p> <h2 align="left" style="color: #cb575f; display: block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; width: 100%;">Suggest a charity</h2> <p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">We
would love to hear of your nominations for worthy causes we can donate
to. To suggest a charity please email Jonathan Fagan at <a href="mailto:jonathan@tptranscription.co.uk" style="color: #597bb7; text-decoration: none;">jonathan@tptranscription.co.uk</a>
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
lot of the charities like to know who nominated them, and if you are
happy for us to release this to them and/or for us to use your name in
any publicity related to the donation, please let us know.</p> <h2 align="left" style="color: #cb575f; display: block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; width: 100%;">Funding criteria</h2> <p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">The charity deals with a range of work that appeals to us. <br /> The charity has no ulterior motive. <br /> The charity appears to do some good, does not hoard money or spend it frivolously. <br /> The charity pays its staff a reasonable and not excessive level of remuneration.</p> <p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">The trustees of the Ten-Percent Foundation are particularly interested in the following types of charity or worthy cause:</p> <p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">Charities
that deal with poverty and the effects of poverty in the UK, support
for stammering and in particular children affected by speech
impediments, support for people who have Parkinsons, children with heart
conditions, support for people who have had a stroke, charities working
with ex-offenders, charities with links to the legal profession,
charities dealing with victims (and perpetrators of) domestic violence
and charities dealing with youth work in areas particularly affected by
poverty.</p> <h2 align="left" style="color: #cb575f; display: block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; width: 100%;">Why do we donate?</h2> <p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">We
set up our companies over 20 years ago with the aim of being as ethical
as possible in everything we did. As part of this we decided that a
percentage of our profits should always be earmarked for charitable work
and set the rate at ten percent. A sudden burst of inspiration meant we
called ourselves the Ten Percent Group.</p> <h2 align="left" style="color: #cb575f; display: block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; width: 100%;">Nominations 2023</h2> <p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">Last
year we asked our clients, contractors, employees and candidates to nominate
charities we could support and were overwhelmed with the large number of
suggestions received. We had a large number of well thought out
nominations from academic clients using our transcription services.</p> <p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">Our
trustees went through each nomination to ensure the charity fell within
our criteria for donations. The trustees also called each charity where
possible to discuss potential funding requirements. We always check the
charity accounts as well.</p> <p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">A
wide range of charities were selected and we have been showcasing them
in our newsletters over the past year. These included the The Children's
Heartbeat Trust (Northern Ireland), Arun Sunshine Group, Ichthyosis
Support Group, Men in Sheds, First Steps, Rights of Women, Cure
Parkinsons, Prison Choir Project, Dundee Stroke Exercise Club, The Proud
Trust and Leeds Womens Aid.</p> <p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">We
have a strict list of criteria in relation our donating which is
available on the Ten Percent Foundation website. Donations tend to be
within the range of £500-£2000 per charity per year, although in the
past we have supported charities over a period of 5 years with donations
going towards specific ongoing projects.</p> <p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">If
you have any questions about the work of the Ten Percent Foundation,
please email jonathan@tptranscription.co.uk or visit our website at <a href="http://www.tenpercentfoundation.org" style="color: #597bb7; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.tenpercentfoundation.org</a></p></span>Jonathan Faganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11711472001853618516noreply@blogger.com0London, UK51.5072178 -0.127586223.196983963821154 -35.2838362 79.817451636178845 35.0286638tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36839305.post-53841615648896416392023-02-05T07:23:00.006+00:002023-02-05T07:23:55.698+00:00Legal Recruitment News February 2023<p> Welcome to the February 2023 edition of Legal Recruitment News. It
includes our legal job market report, locum hourly rates, our charity
donation, articles on writing a CV for the first time, converting a sole
practitioner firm to a limited company and psychic predictions for
2023.</p><p> </p><h3 style="text-align: left;">https://www.ten-percent.co.uk/legal-recruitment-news-february-2023/ <br /></h3><p> </p><p>Jonathan Fagan is Managing Director of Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment and a non-practising Solicitor. <a href="http://www.ten-percent.co.uk/">Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment provides online Legal Recruitment for Solicitors, Legal Executives, Licensed Conveyancers, Legal Cashiers, Fee Earners, Support Staff, Managers and Paralegals</a>. Visit our Website to search our Vacancy Database.</p>Jonathan Faganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11711472001853618516noreply@blogger.com0London, UK51.5072178 -0.127586223.196983963821154 -35.2838362 79.817451636178845 35.0286638tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36839305.post-52095966979771478272022-12-23T06:50:00.004+00:002022-12-23T06:51:03.651+00:00Where can I find legal jobs?<p><br />Here is a definitive list of places to find legal jobs in the UK, including England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. </p><p>• <a href="https://www.chancerylane.co.uk" target="_blank"> Chancerylane.co.uk</a> – This is a specialist legal jobs board that lists all the vacancies as a minimum in the Ten Percent Group of legal recruitment websites. This includes solicitors, partners, legal executives, licensed conveyancers, paralegals, legal assistants, secretaries, practice managers and any other legal support roles. Established in 2005 and used mainly by solicitors. <br /><br />• Totallylegal.com – This was a website set up by a couple of entrepreneurs and later sold to the Trinity Mirror Group for a seven figure sum. In recent times it has not been so prominent in the legal search fields, but it’s still very much there and a go-to site for a number of jobs, mainly for recruitment agencies advertising paralegal and legal support roles. <br /><br />• Law Society Gazette jobs – This tends to be for high street and niche commercial private practice roles for solicitors, and not so common to see legal support roles here. It tends to be quite specialist roles that are posted and is a standard must-view website for all solicitors and legal executives looking for work. <br /><br />• <a href="http://www.lawyer-recruitment.co.uk" target="_blank">Lawyer Recruitment Directory</a> – This is a recruitment directory set up by the Ten Percent Group with a list of all the legal recruiters in the UK and links to their websites. You can also view links to their finances as posted to Companies House, and see a brief description of each. <br /><br />• Simply Law Jobs – This is a website set up some years ago and has never been one of our favourites at the Ten Percent Group when it has come to advertising, simply because we have never had any success from any recruitment we have done using the site, although I’m sure plenty do. Like Totally Legal, they maintain a CV database but in a similar sense to Totally Legal the CVs contained on here do not particularly stand out in our experience. <br /><br />• Reed.co.uk – The mother of all job boards, this was set up by a recruitment agency many years ago and is huge. It encompasses all areas of professional practice including law, and we still get quality applicants from it all these years later, after being with the job board for some considerable time. It tends to be good for paralegal and support roles but you do also get qualified lawyer roles advertised on here as well. <br /><br />• Thelawyer.com – This tends to be for specialist in-house niche roles and quite a lot of group counsel positions are advertised on their job board. It doesn’t tend to be as busy for private practice roles, and similarly any support roles do not tend to be as popular on this site. <br /><br />• On the High Street – One of the main ways of getting work in law firms is simply to approach them directly, and you can do that in person whilst walking down your local high street and calling into the offices. Whilst this may seem a little bit extreme and something you wouldn’t dream of doing, this is precisely why it can be so effective at finding legal jobs in the UK. Most people are simply unwilling to take this action, yet in my experience this is the kind of thing that gets you ahead with your career. <br /><br />• LinkedIn – The same pretty much as walking up your high street, LinkedIn can give you access to jobs simply by contacting law firm staff directly and asking them. Tailored searched would be essential and you may also need to invest in some access to in-mail, which is one of LinkedIn’s ways of making serious amounts of money out of users. <br /><br />As you can see from the above there are lots of different ways of finding legal jobs in the UK, but of course once you’ve found them does it necessarily follow that you are going to be suitable for particular posts or will the post be suitable for you? It’s always worth looking at a number of different options on keeping yourself updated with anything new coming up. <br /><br />Jonathan Fagan is Managing Director of Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment and a non-practising Solicitor. <a href="http://www.ten-percent.co.uk/">Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment provides online Legal Recruitment for Solicitors, Legal Executives, Licensed Conveyancers, Legal Cashiers, Fee Earners, Support Staff, Managers and Paralegals</a>. Visit our Website to search our Vacancy Database.</p>Jonathan Faganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11711472001853618516noreply@blogger.com0London, UK51.5072178 -0.127586223.196983963821154 -35.2838362 79.817451636178845 35.0286638tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36839305.post-29126352189657384912022-12-23T06:47:00.006+00:002022-12-23T06:47:44.906+00:00December 2022 Legal Recruitment News<p> Legal Recruitment News from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment for December 2022. </p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.legal-recruitment.co.uk/legal-recruitment-news-december-2022/">http://www.legal-recruitment.co.uk/legal-recruitment-news-december-2022/</a><br /></h3><p>Jonathan Fagan is Managing Director of Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment and a non-practising Solicitor. <a href="http://www.ten-percent.co.uk/">Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment provides online Legal Recruitment for Solicitors, Legal Executives, Licensed Conveyancers, Legal Cashiers, Fee Earners, Support Staff, Managers and Paralegals</a>. Visit our Website to search our Vacancy Database.</p>Jonathan Faganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11711472001853618516noreply@blogger.com0London, UK51.5072178 -0.127586223.196983963821154 -35.2838362 79.817451636178845 35.0286638tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36839305.post-40945458856443460362022-11-21T16:53:00.001+00:002022-11-21T16:53:03.853+00:00November 2022 Legal Recruitment News <p> </p><p> Click the link below for the November 2022 edition of Legal Recruitment News. </p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.legal-recruitment.co.uk/legal-recruitment-news-november-2022/">http://www.legal-recruitment.co.uk/legal-recruitment-news-november-2022/</a><br /></h3><p>Jonathan Fagan is Managing Director of Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment and a non-practising Solicitor. <a href="http://www.ten-percent.co.uk/">Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment provides online Legal Recruitment for Solicitors, Legal Executives, Licensed Conveyancers, Legal Cashiers, Fee Earners, Support Staff, Managers and Paralegals</a>. Visit our Website to search our Vacancy Database.</p>Jonathan Faganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11711472001853618516noreply@blogger.com0London, UK51.5072178 -0.127586223.196983963821154 -35.2838362 79.817451636178845 35.0286638tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36839305.post-59028689898172567622022-10-18T14:45:00.005+01:002022-10-18T14:45:44.588+01:00Legal Recruitment News October 2022<p></p><p><span class="module-2 text-container" style="text-align: left;">October
2022 edition of Legal Recruitment News. It includes our legal job market
report, locum hourly rates, telling your staff about a sale, getting
into law, the perfect law firm for sale, our charity donation and more.</span></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span class="module-2 text-container" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.ten-percent.co.uk/legal-recruitment-news-october-2022/">https://www.ten-percent.co.uk/legal-recruitment-news-october-2022/</a><br /></span></h3><p>Jonathan Fagan is Managing Director of Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment and a non-practising Solicitor. <a href="http://www.ten-percent.co.uk/">Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment provides online Legal Recruitment for Solicitors, Legal Executives, Licensed Conveyancers, Legal Cashiers, Fee Earners, Support Staff, Managers and Paralegals</a>. Visit our Website to search our Vacancy Database.</p>Jonathan Faganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11711472001853618516noreply@blogger.com0London, UK51.5072178 -0.127586223.196983963821154 -35.2838362 79.817451636178845 35.0286638tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36839305.post-31059997448516829212022-09-21T14:10:00.002+01:002022-09-21T14:10:15.937+01:00Legal Recruitment News September 2022<p><span class="module-2 text-container" style="text-align: left;">September
2022 edition of Legal Recruitment News. It includes our legal job
market report, locum hourly rates, investing in law firms, CV writing
advice, becoming a partner, our charity donation, and more.</span></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span class="module-2 text-container" style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.legal-recruitment.co.uk/legal-recruitment-news-september-2022/">http://www.legal-recruitment.co.uk/legal-recruitment-news-september-2022/ </a><br /></span></h3><p> <br /></p><p>Jonathan Fagan is Managing Director of Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment and a non-practising Solicitor. <a href="http://www.ten-percent.co.uk/">Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment provides online Legal Recruitment for Solicitors, Legal Executives, Licensed Conveyancers, Legal Cashiers, Fee Earners, Support Staff, Managers and Paralegals</a>. Visit our Website to search our Vacancy Database.</p>Jonathan Faganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11711472001853618516noreply@blogger.com0London, UK51.5072178 -0.127586223.196983963821154 -35.2838362 79.817451636178845 35.0286638tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36839305.post-313582405608416422022-08-18T10:57:00.000+01:002022-08-18T10:57:00.996+01:00Legal Recruitment News August 2022<p> August 2022 edition of Legal Recruitment News. It includes our legal job
market report, locum hourly rates, what is a reasonable pay rise,
effective interview techniques, PII broker notification, our charity
donation, and more. <br /></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://chancerylane.co.uk/legal-recruitment-news-august-2022/ " target="_blank">https://chancerylane.co.uk/legal-recruitment-news-august-2022/ </a><br /></h3><p> </p><p>Jonathan Fagan is Managing Director of Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment and a non-practising Solicitor. <a href="http://www.ten-percent.co.uk/">Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment provides online Legal Recruitment for Solicitors, Legal Executives, Licensed Conveyancers, Legal Cashiers, Fee Earners, Support Staff, Managers and Paralegals</a>. Visit our Website to search our Vacancy Database.</p>Jonathan Faganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11711472001853618516noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36839305.post-48781242643624377552022-07-22T09:18:00.006+01:002022-07-22T09:18:40.527+01:00How easy is it to donate to charity as a charitable trust or company?<p> <span class="module-5 text-container" style="text-align: left;"></span></p><h1 align="left" style="color: #372d2d; display: block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; width: 100%;"><strong style="font-weight: bold;">How hard can it be to donate to charity?</strong></h1> <p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">The
Ten Percent Foundation is a charitable trust registered with the
Charity Commission in England and Wales. The Foundation was set up in
2003 to distribute the profits donated by companies within the Ten
Percent Group of websites.</p> <p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">All
the companies within the Ten Percent Group donate 10% of net profits
every year to charity as part of their general commitment to society,
coupled with the moral and ethical stance taken by the founders when the
companies were set up.</p> <p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">Every
year the trustees of the Ten Percent Foundation meet to discuss the
donations we are going to make from the profits that have been put into
the foundation, and we come up with a list which is usually a selection
of charities the trustees have a personal interest in, charities
suggested by clients, candidates, transcribers, translators, and
suppliers, and also charities who make direct applications to the Ten
Percent Foundation.</p> <h2 align="left" style="color: #cb575f; display: block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; width: 100%;">Donating is Easy?</h2> <p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">You
would think that this would be an easy process, and that charities
would be grateful for the money that we want to donate to them. Some
charities are incredibly grateful and go out of their way to provide us
with lots of information about the plans they have for the money we’re
going to donate to them and details of their current work and updates
following the donation we make, but others are a complete nightmare.</p> <h2 align="left" style="color: #cb575f; display: block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; width: 100%;">Annoyed Charities</h2> <p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">Firstly,
there are the charities who almost feel quite annoyed that you want to
give them the money. An example of this would be a nameless charity,
somewhere in the Midlands, who were nominated some years ago. On paper
they sounded amazing and quite inspirational – part of their remit is to
provide instant help and advice to anyone requiring assistance with day
to day living - they work intensely with the homeless on the streets
for example.</p> <p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">We
got in touch with them to donate money, but got no response at all. The
person who had suggested them managed to make contact, and after a
while got a response back with their bank details so that we could send
them our donation. They did not acknowledge that the money had been sent
to them and we got no information from them about where the money had
been spent.</p> <p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">We
appreciate entirely that smaller charities can be incredibly busy
juggling lots of balls all at once and are physically unable to spend
much time dealing with the likes of us as donors. However, as an
absolute minimum, we do like it when someone gets back in touch to say a
quick thank you to confirm receipt.</p> <h2 align="left" style="color: #cb575f; display: block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; width: 100%;">Suspicious Minds</h2> <p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">This
year we had a charity nominated for a donation. On paper they looked
really good, and we wanted to give them some money, because we could see
that the charity’s aims were in line with our own, and we could see a
clear benefit for providing support to them. They were quite clearly a
charity who would be likely to struggle for funding.</p> <p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">I
gave them a ring to tell them that we wanted to give them money, and to
ask for the best person to speak to. When I called, the manager I spoke
to informed me that the charity was a bit busy at the moment and didn’t
have time to speak to me so could I send them an email please.</p> <p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">We
sent them an email to say that we wanted to give them some money; quite
possibly around £1000 without any catches, but got no response. I
chased up again, but was unable to get through to anyone who could
assist.</p> <p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">So
essentially although we wanted to give the charity £1000 without any
ties or restrictions other than an acknowledgement we had sent it and if
possible to tell us what they’d spent it on, we got nothing at all back
from the charity.</p> <p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">From
time to time we do come across charities who are highly reluctant to
communicate with us because they are very suspicious as to who we are.
We can understand this – our companies get emails every day telling us
that somebody in Nigeria/Panama/the Cayman Islands etc.. wants to give
us £20 million because we're such nice people, and could we make contact
(NB if you are a genuine donor of £20 million please give me a ring
directly!). However we not only email charities, but we do also
telephone them, so our emails do not come out of the blue. This year we
have had to discount four charities who have failed to communicate with
us at all, even though we have telephoned, left messages, and emailed.</p> <h2 align="left" style="color: #cb575f; display: block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; width: 100%;">Advertising Charges</h2> <p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">Some
time ago we donated to a larger size charity who were looking for
assistance with a clean water project in Africa. From memory I think the
donation was £2,500 and we asked the charity if they minded us writing
about the project and also if they could provide a bit of further
information about their work. The charity got back to say that if we
wanted to write about the project and use their logo or any pictures
from their website we would need to pay a licensing fee. We informed
them that if they wanted our £2,500 they needed to stop being so silly
and take the donation in the spirit it was intended to be given and not
behave like a multinational business! They took the money and we wrote
the article. However we have not donated to them again.</p> <h2 align="left" style="color: #cb575f; display: block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; width: 100%;">Cashing Cheques</h2> <p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">Many
years ago we tried to donate to a children’s charity in London, who
shall remain nameless, and we sent them a cheque which was not cashed.
We followed this up with another letter to ask them to confirm if they
had received the cheque and got no response. We then chased this up and
again received nothing back.</p> <p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">I
do wonder at times whether some charities and charitable organisations
have more money than they actually need and anyone trying to give them
money is a bit of a hassle for them. This may be true, and I do
appreciate that some charities are extremely well-funded and are not in
need of any further financial assistance. Others simply don’t have the
time to deal with the administration of a donation.</p> <h2 align="left" style="color: #cb575f; display: block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; width: 100%;">Administration</h2> <p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">Our
Foundation does not incur any administration costs or trustee expenses
at all. In the c20 years of our existence the only administration fees
have been bank charges by the CAF bank of £60 per year (until we moved
to Triodos last year to save money). All our trustee meetings,
administration of correspondence, charity research, website hosting,
website maintenance, donation management etc.. is paid for either by the
workers individually with their time or expenses are funded by our
companies. We estimate that it takes about 30 hours each year to
collate, discuss and distribute our donations. A few charities will take
up more time than all the others put together for the reasons given
above.</p> <h2 align="left" style="color: #cb575f; display: block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; width: 100%;">Summary</h2> <p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">We
want to donate to charity and we are keen to carry on the aims of our
founders in distributing 10% of our net profits every year to charity.
Most charities make our lives very easy indeed and are a pleasure to
deal with. However, its never simple working with a small minority of
charities - they remain awkward to deal with!</p><p></p><p>Jonathan Fagan is Managing Director of Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment and a non-practising Solicitor. <a href="http://www.ten-percent.co.uk/">Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment provides online Legal Recruitment for Solicitors, Legal Executives, Licensed Conveyancers, Legal Cashiers, Fee Earners, Support Staff, Managers and Paralegals</a>. </p>Jonathan Faganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11711472001853618516noreply@blogger.com0London, UK51.5072178 -0.127586223.196983963821154 -35.2838362 79.817451636178845 35.0286638tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36839305.post-79321936280778260722022-07-21T16:56:00.003+01:002022-07-21T16:56:29.242+01:00Legal Recruitment News July 2022<p><span class="module-2 text-container" style="text-align: left;">Welcome to the July 2022 edition of Legal Recruitment News.
It includes our legal job market report, locum hourly rates, recruiting
expensive candidates, using LinkedIn, an unusual law firm purchase
offer, our charity donation, and more. <br /></span></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span class="module-2 text-container" style="text-align: left;">http://www.legal-recruitment.co.uk/legal-recruitment-news-july-2022/ <br /></span></h3><p>Jonathan Fagan is Managing Director of Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment and a non-practising Solicitor. <a href="http://www.ten-percent.co.uk/">Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment provides online Legal Recruitment for Solicitors, Legal Executives, Licensed Conveyancers, Legal Cashiers, Fee Earners, Support Staff, Managers and Paralegals</a>. Visit our Website to search our Vacancy Database.</p>Jonathan Faganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11711472001853618516noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36839305.post-31571638796805199012022-07-21T16:54:00.001+01:002022-07-21T16:54:04.197+01:00The Prison Choir Project - £500 donation from the Ten Percent Foundation<p> <span class="module-8 text-container" style="text-align: left !important;"></span></p><h1 align="left" style="color: #372d2d; display: block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; width: 100%;"><strong style="font-weight: bold;">The Prison Choir Project - Ten Percent Foundation Award - £500</strong></h1> <p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">The
Ten Percent Foundation trustees have made their first round of awards
for 2022 and will be providing an outline of each charity we have
donated to every month for the next 12 months. The first of these is the
Prison Choir Project.</p> <p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">The
Prison Choir Project is a charity with the objectives to rehabilitate
prisoners, ex-offenders and people experiencing mental disorder by the
advance of the arts and culture, in particular through the performance
of opera, song, and choral music.</p> <p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">The
charity hopes to provide a pathway towards establishing a reduction in
reoffending, building self-esteem, improving self-confidence and
employability skills for all those involved. The charity has an
outstanding track-record - they have run eight major projects in four
prisons (HMP Dartmoor, HMP Drake Hall, HMP Kirkham, HMP Wandsworth)
including fully-staged performances of Carmen, West Side Story and Guys
and Dolls; featured on Prison Radio on Christmas Day; been reviewed in
The Times, Inside Time, Devon Magazine, and Country and Town House;
engaged with more than 1000 prisoners and prison staff and worked with
100 professional musicians; we have also brought more than 1000 members
of the public into prisons.</p> <p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">“I
am absolutely overawed at how happy I was for signing up! In the 15
years I’ve spent behind bars this is one project that I would do again
and again. I found it helped my self belief, self worth, self
confidence, it eased my PTSD and it stopped my craving for illicit
drugs.’ Darren</p> <h2 align="left" style="color: #cb575f; display: block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; width: 100%;">The charity's vision & mission</h2> <p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">Music
as an art form is used as a connective strand that fosters purpose,
hope and sense of direction for people who are incarcerated in our
prison system and for those ex-offenders re-joining society/communities.</p> <p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">Music, and in particular singing, provides a road map for prisoners and ex-offenders to: <br /> Improve wellbeing – mentally, physically, socially and emotionally. <br /> Create an awareness of potential and capacity to learn and develop through music. <br /> Tap into potential skills and talents with the possibility of building a career of employability in the music/arts field. <br />
Develop self-confidence, self-belief and self-determination to succeed
through music thereby enabling and reducing the possibility of
reoffending.</p> <h2 align="left" style="color: #cb575f; display: block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; width: 100%;">Prison Facts (from the charity)</h2> <p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">Scotland and England and Wales have the highest imprisonment rates in western Europe <br /> Nearly 59,000 people sent to prison to serve a sentence in 2018, 69% non-violent <br /> Nearly half of adults (48%) are reconvicted of another offence within one year of release <br />
Prisoners and staff are less safe than they have been at any point
since records began, with more self-harm and assaults than ever before.
Despite a brief decline, the number of self-inflicted deaths is rising
once again. <br /> Assaults on staff have more than tripled in only five years to 10,213 in 2018 <br /> The average annual overall cost of a prison place in England and Wales is now £40,843 <br /> Most women entering prison under sentence (82%) have committed a non-violent offence </p> <h2 align="left" style="color: #cb575f; display: block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; width: 100%;">Plans for 2022</h2> <p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">"As
we approach the end of Covid restrictions this is a time to reestablish
links with prisons, reopen projects that have been on ice and prepare
for a busy end to 2022 with performances planned throughout the UK in
HMP Send, HMP Bristol and HMP Dartmoor. At the end of April we
workshopped an opera by Benjamin Britten called Billy Budd with
professionals and prison ‘alumni’ and were in HMP Dartmoor in the first
week of May."</p> <h2 align="left" style="color: #cb575f; display: block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; width: 100%;">Action you can take:</h2> <p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">The charity are collecting CDs for inmates to listen to. Visit their website for further details on where to send CDs to.</p> <p align="left" style="color: #3a352a; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">Further information: <a href="https://www.prisonchoirproject.co.uk/" style="color: #597bb7; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">https://www.prisonchoirproject.co.uk/</a></p><p></p><p> </p><p>Jonathan Fagan is Managing Director of Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment and a non-practising Solicitor. <a href="http://www.ten-percent.co.uk/">Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment provides online Legal Recruitment for Solicitors, Legal Executives, Licensed Conveyancers, Legal Cashiers, Fee Earners, Support Staff, Managers and Paralegals</a>. Visit our Website to search our Vacancy Database.</p>Jonathan Faganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11711472001853618516noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36839305.post-67485250704375453532022-06-13T14:26:00.006+01:002022-06-13T14:26:41.978+01:00Legal Recruitment News June 2022<p><span class="module-2 text-container" style="text-align: left;">June 2022 edition of Legal Recruitment News. It includes our
legal job market report, locum hourly rates, remote working, stopping
running a law firm, welcoming a new employee and more.</span></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span class="module-2 text-container" style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.legal-recruitment.co.uk/legal-recruitment-news-june-2022/" target="_blank">http://www.legal-recruitment.co.uk/legal-recruitment-news-june-2022/ </a><br /></span></h3><p>Jonathan Fagan is Managing Director of Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment and a non-practising Solicitor. <a href="http://www.ten-percent.co.uk/">Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment provides online Legal Recruitment for Solicitors, Legal Executives, Licensed Conveyancers, Legal Cashiers, Fee Earners, Support Staff, Managers and Paralegals</a>. Visit our Website to search our Vacancy Database.</p>Jonathan Faganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11711472001853618516noreply@blogger.com0