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An interview with Jonathan Fagan, Solicitor, Legal Recruitment Consultant and Career Coach
Q Why do you offer career coaching to lawyers and law students?
Good question! Together with 3 other lawyers I set up Ten Percent Legal Recruitment back in April 2000. Within a few months we were being bombarded with CVs...
Job Offers – how to decide
A recent dilemna arose for a solicitor looking to take a fairly senior post in the North of England. He had two offers, as well as an additional firm interested. One firm were very friendly, a reasonable size, good working conditions, excellent...
Lawyers returning to work after children
It is apparently the case that mothers returning to work after starting a family suffer the highest employment penalty of any group (Equalities Review).
Mothers with children under 11 are 37% less likely to be offered a job than equivalent males.
Single...
Job Offers – Sticking or Twisting
Negotiation with some firms is like a gunfight at OK Corral!
It can be great fun dealing with firms and candidates when it comes to job offers being made by firms.
Some firms make good, competitive offers, which any sensible candidate would...
How to become a legal recruitment consultant
This article also applies to recruitment consultant jobs generally. Becoming a legal recruitment consultant is a little like joining the Dark Side in Star Wars – it involves professionals giving up a well paid job with status to take on...
Locuming as an alternative career for solicitors
At some stage in a solicitors career, this conundrum will almost always arise. It usually follows the stint of a locum in a firm for a longer period of a few weeks, and someone in the firm discovering that the locum is getting paid more than...
Moving from Private Practice Law to In House Law
This used to be fairly popular (both ways), but as more lawyers realise that life is not that rosy on the other side, we find it less common.
If you are about 2 years PQE (post-qualification experience) or above, in a field of law related to...
Leaving the Legal Profession
OK – you have spent 4 years being a solicitor, and you hate it. You dislike your clients, your boss, the money, the hours, your colleagues and life in general. What do you do?
Firstly, do not worry that you are unusual. This is common,...
Changing Specialism in Law
A common topic with lawyers is whether they can change fields of law once qualified. Commercial Lawyers moving into the “more interesting” High Street”, and High Street lawyers looking to earn more than a Tesco shelf stacker...