Jonathan Fagan, Managing Director of Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment and Pearl McNamara, Finance Director, at the NEC Law Exhibition
Ten-Percent.co.uk Limited was formed in 2000 by 3 lawyers and a doctor. We are a legal recruitment consultancy, concentrating on the recruitment of solicitors, lawyers and legal support staff. One of the directors had been through the recruitment process, and discovered that there was a gap in the market for an online legal recruitment company offering a low cost, fast, hassle-free service for both candidates and clients. Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment was formed, and this website set up.
We decided to call ourselves Ten-Percent on the basis that we uniquely donate 10% of our annual profits to charity, and since 2000 we have gone on to donate many £000′s to a range of charitable causes via the Ten-Percent Foundation.
In 2002 we established a charitable trust called the Ten-Percent Foundation. All charitable donations will be made through this in future. For further information about our charitable donations you can visit the Ten-Percent Foundation website. We get over 60,000 hits per month from lawyers using our recruitment services and law students using our legal careers information portal. Our costs are low and we get a significant proportion of our work through personal recommendations from candidates and clients whom we have already assisted.
Ten-Percent Legal has been Investors in People Accredited since 2008.
The company also owns the Jonathan Fagan Legal Recruitment website, Crime Solicitor Recruitment – specialising in crime solicitors, Home Counties Legal Recruitment, www.lawyer-recruitment.co.uk and another 4 regional sites. We also have a growing niche in Independent Financial Adviser Recruitment. For details of all the websites in our group please visit www.tenpercentgroup.com
How we work
We are already aware of a lot of vacancies and seek out new positions all the time. When you register with us, we let the firms in the area you seek employment know that we have a candidate looking for a particular type of work, and give them a reference number. If interested, they contact us, and we let you know the firm’s details. If you are interested, we contact the firm and arrange an interview for you, letting the firm know your name at that point.
We do not send out personal details, and never identify you prior to you giving us consent to reveal your name to firms. We spend a lot of time recruiting in London and the South East, but are also successful in the regions.
We are different because
1. We do not pressure you into accepting positions or interviews, but instead make you aware of the opportunity to speak to interested firms.
2. We do not have a quota of CV’s to send out, there are no targets for us to reach, we do not employ salespeople to “sell” candidates, and we are pleased for you regardless of how you obtain work (ie with or without our services).
3. We do not telephone you constantly, bombard you with emails or turn up on your doorstep! We will contact you by email and text with new vacancies and a monthly newsletter, and apart from chasing for interview feedback we do not make it a habit to harrass candidates.
We cover the following fields of law:
ADR/CDR, Agricultural, Asset Finance, Aviation Law, Banking, Capital Markets, Charity Law, Child Care, Civil Litigation, Clinical Negligence, Commercial Contracts, Commercial Litigation, Commercial Property, Company/Commercial, Compliance, Construction, Consumer Law, Conveyancing (Residential), Corporate, Corporate Crime, Corporate Finance, Corporate Recovery, Corporate Restructuring, Corporate Tax, Crime, Debt Recovery, Derivatives, Finance, e-Commerce, EC Law, Education Law, Employee Benefits, Employment, Energy, Enfranchisement, Enterprise & Technology, Environment, EU Competition, Family/Matrimonial, Financial Services, Fraud, Funds, Health & Safety, Healthcare, Housing, Human Rights, Immigration, Information Technology, Insolvency, Insurance, Intellectual Property, International Law, Landlord & Tenant, Law Costs Draftsmen, Law Costs Draftsperson, Libel & Defamation, Liquor Licensing, Media/Entertainment, Mental Health, Mergers & Acquisitions, Mortgage Repossession, New Media, Patents, Pensions, Personal Injury, PFI Projects, Planning, Plot Sales, Prison Law, Private Client, Private Equity, Probate (Contentious), Procurement, Professional Negligence, Project Finance, Property Litigation, Public Sector, Real Estate, Regulatory, Remortgaging, Reparation, Securities, Share Schemes, Shipping Law, Sports Law, Taxation, Telecoms, Trademarks, Transport, Travel & Tourism, Trusts & Tax, Welfare Benefits, Wills & Probate.
We hope that you have found our service useful. If you have any comments, positive or negative, please email us – you can find the link to do this on our contact page.
We are registered for VAT and registered under the Data Protection Act.
Our Directors
Jonathan Fagan LLM, LLB (EU), Cert RP, MAC, MIRP is a solicitor (non-practising) and Managing Director of Ten-Percent.co.uk Limited. He studied law at Leicester University and Frankfurt University before training with a small high street practice in Leicester. On qualification he worked for a Chambers-listed firm in Nottingham, before taking a full time role in Ten-Percent Legal. He has assisted many solicitors and legal executives find new posts across the UK and overseas, personally works with every career coaching client and prepares CVs for a range of people in the legal profession, from senior partners to law students.
Clare Fagan assists with the administration, management and strategic development of the company.
Pearl McNamara is the Finance Director of Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment, managing our accounts department. She coordinates our recruitment campaigns and is often the first point of call for candidates and clients. Pearl also operates our external transcription service, and coordinates our work across the Ten-Percent Group of websites. Pearl joined the business in 2003.
The Vision and Purpose of Ten Percent Legal Recruitment
Vision
Our vision is to be seen as a reputable and reliable recruitment service for law firms and legal departments across the globe. At the same time to provide a cost-efficient service to all users and offer free and paid ancillary services running parallel to the main website. We aim to be innovating at all times and have services on the site that are available nowhere else. Furthermore we want to promote the concept of donating Ten Percent of annual profits to charity and encourage other companies to do the same.
Purpose
To provide a recruitment service that does not just put candidates and clients together but develops the structured relationships that last for many years. To ensure that the Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment brand is so well known that it builds value and goodwill.