09/05/08 New emergence of crime market In the last few days we have seen an explosion in duty solicitor and crime recruitment. It appears that suddenly duty solicitors have become the flavour of the market and after the last 12 to 18 months of redundancies and dire warnings that everything was going to disappear and that no crime solicitors would be left. I have been inundated in my areas of the country (London, Home Counties, parts of the Midlands) with telephone calls and emails from firms wanting any duty solicitors that we have. Some of them are completely unrealistic, others are slightly more realistic. The sort of salaries that are being indicated at present are lower than previous years particularly so in and around London. So what can you expect if you are a duty solicitor or crime solicitor currently on the market looking for work? In London, quite a lot of the firms are interested solely on a freelance basis, i.e. you sign your slots over to the firm in return for a basic plu...
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