Articles from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment with advice on recruiting, finance, marketing, general business development, interviewing and more for law firms, legal employers and recruiters.
- How to get a new employee off to the best start 13/06/2022
- I’ve been working from an office for 40 years, so why can’t others? 13/06/2022
- How to negotiate a pay rise and how to deal with a request for a pay rise 16/05/2022
- 10 Top Interview Tips for Interviewers 27/01/2022
- Where Are All the Candidates? How to Recruit New Lawyers 08/12/2021
- Rewards & Benefits to Employees in the Legal Sector 16/11/2021
- Contract Manager or Legal Counsel – Tailoring Job Applications 21/07/2021
- How to Make an Offer to Buy a Law Firm 01/05/2021
- Selling a Law Firm – What’s it Worth? 10/04/2021
- Locums Covering More Than One Field of Law 10/04/2021
- Podcasts – a benefit to my business? 11/03/2021
- Video CVs – Are they the Future? 08/02/2021
- What is the Difference Between an Employment Business and an Employment Agency? 22/01/2021
- Legal Job Interview Techniques – The Fake Receptionist 15/01/2021
- Pie in the Sky Law Firm Valuations 13/10/2020
- Locums Reluctant to Take Office Based Roles since July 2020 04/10/2020
- Thinking of Closing your Law Firm? Think again.. 22/08/2020
- My Law Firm Wants to Grow – Any Ideas? 06/08/2020
- I want to Recruit a Solicitor with a Client Following 06/08/2020
- Business meetings – a thing of the past and is it normal to continue working during them? 07/05/2020
- Legal Recruitment News April 2020 02/04/2020
- Getting More Work 28/03/2020
- Choosing the Spec for In House Lawyer Vacancies 31/01/2020
- First Meetings for Law Firm Sales – Neutral Locations 22/01/2020
- Recruitment agents hardly do anything other than send CVs – why should we pay you? 07/11/2019
- I want a solicitor with a following…but how would you like it? 11/10/2019
- The false economy of paying low wages 11/10/2019
- Keeping good accounts when selling a law firm 11/10/2019
- Negotiating for the sake of negotiating – the risks of haggling on salary during the job offer process 15/09/2019
- Restrictive Covenants – recent Supreme Court ruling 17/07/2019
- What’s my business worth? The impossible question 09/06/2019
- Locum Solicitors and the Curse of the Client’s Change of Plans 21/03/2019
- What to Expect From an In-House Legal Counsel Job Interview 19/01/2019
- Legal Jobs in the Middle East – do we cover recruitment in the region? 27/12/2018
- How to deal with a Pompous Arse 28/11/2018
- Don’t tell candidates they have been rejected until you are absolutely sure that you don’t want them. 20/11/2018
- We want to recruit a paralegal and he’s got to be male 17/09/2018
- Law Firms for Sale and Potential Investors – September 13th 2018 13/09/2018
- Extracting yourself from your Law Firm – advice for partners and directors 24/05/2018
- Locum Hourly Rates May 2018 18/05/2018
- New LAA Contract Awards for Family, Mental Health etc. – how not to recruit Supervisors for new contract awards 23/03/2018
- IR35 and Local Authority Contractors – are we heading towards the same regime for Private Practice? 14/03/2018
- Discrimination in Recruitment – is it rife? 11/02/2018
- Legal Locum Hourly Rates January 2018 11/02/2018
- Paralegals are more likely not to turn up for Job Interviews than any other staff. Why? 16/12/2017
- Restrictive Covenants – do they put employees off? 16/12/2017
- Legal Locum Hourly Rates – December 2017 16/12/2017
- Questions for our Recruitment Consultants 10/11/2017
- How much do Sole Practitioners Earn? 10/11/2017
- Hourly Rates for Locum Solicitors for October 2017 from Interim Lawyers and TP Legal Recruitment 11/10/2017
- Guide to Locum Solicitors Hourly Rates of Pay September 2017 10/09/2017
- Locum Hourly Rates July 8th 2017 08/07/2017
- Fake News – is there a Shortage of Conveyancing Locums vs Wills & Probate Locum Solicitors? 07/06/2017
- Locum Hourly Rates June 7th 2017 07/06/2017
- Questions to our Recruitment Consultants via our Chat Service 10/05/2017
- Etiquette for Locums 10/05/2017
- Locum Hourly Rate – Updated May 2017 10/05/2017
- What does QBE stand for? 05/04/2017
- Locum Hourly Rates for April 2017 05/04/2017
- New Candidate Update 16th March 2017 16/03/2017
- Locum Solicitors and ILEX Hourly Rates for March 2017 08/03/2017
- Matching Current Salary with a Job Offer – a good idea? 11/01/2017
- Locum Hourly Rates of Pay November 2016 10/11/2016
- General Practice Solicitors – do they exist? 10/11/2016
- Good Work Life Balance and the Legal Profession 05/10/2016
- New Candidate Update dated 6th September 2016 06/09/2016
- Bad Locums – avoiding them and bad law firms 06/09/2016
- New Candidate Registrations dated 24th August 2016 for Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment 24/08/2016
- New Candidate Update 6th July 2016 06/07/2016
- Salary Reviews – how to avoid pay rises (and lose staff) 09/06/2016
- Law Firm Advertising, Marketing and Following the Crowd 09/06/2016
- Improve your chances of success of recruiting Conveyancing Solicitors 11/05/2016
- Law Firms and Google Adwords Expenditure 11/05/2016
- Legal Recruitment Firm fakes its own staff 03/03/2016
- NQ Solicitor Salary £100,000 per annum – but is there a catch? 05/01/2016
- What do Umbrella Companies do and is there any point a solicitor using one to do locum work? 08/12/2015
- What Makes a Good Job Reference 03/10/2015
- Top 5 Tips for Getting the most out of Candidates 03/09/2015
- Salary Myths and the Legal Profession 05/08/2015
- The Death of 20 Days Annual Leave 15/04/2015
- Mothers Returning to Work in the Legal Profession – A Missed Opportunity? 15/04/2015
- The Baby Boom Locum Maternity Cover Phenomenon 04/03/2015
- How do we as a Legal Recruitment Agency check and verify candidates? 27/01/2015
- Top 4 Queries to our Website over the New Year 14/01/2015
- How to Retain Law Staff in a Busy Legal Job Market 13/09/2014
- What is the difference between a Paralegal and a Fee Earner in a Solicitors firm? 27/06/2014
- Rogue Recruitment Agencies and Phantom Jobs 04/06/2014
- Becoming a Legal Expert in 10,000 Hours – is it really achievable? 05/03/2014
- How much money can you earn as a freelancer, locum or consultant in law? 06/02/2014
- Ten Ways to Get Fired 12/08/2013
- Role of Recruitment Agencies in the post-recession world 12/08/2013
- Training your Secretaries to sell 29/02/2012
- Law Firm Members Newsletter 14/12/2011
- Family Panel and Resolution Accredited Specialists 07/11/2011
- Taking Up References 24/06/2011
- Work Life Balance 24/06/2011
- Making Low Job Offers 24/06/2011
- Lawyers returning to work after children 24/06/2011
- Lack of Quality Candidates or Just Low Pay? 24/06/2011
- How to be a Nice Boss at Christmas 24/06/2011
- Improving Conditions to Retain Staff 23/06/2011
- Is a Job Interview the Best Way of Assessing a Candidate? 23/06/2011
- Application Forms – Solicitors detest them! 20/06/2011
- Employing Good and Happy Receptionists in Law Firms 20/06/2011
- Attaching a Time Limit to a Job Offer 20/06/2011
- Discussing Flexible Hours or Child Care in a Job Interview 20/06/2011
- Technical Questions in a Legal Job Interview 20/06/2011
- Regional Variations in Legal Recruitment 19/06/2011
- Flexible Hours and the Legal Profession 17/06/2011
- Open Plan Offices and Solicitors 17/06/2011
- Bonus Schemes – love them or hate them 16/06/2011
- What is a Sole Supplier Arrangement for a Recruitment Agency? 16/06/2011