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Legal Recruitment News for Law Firms – August 2011

Legal Recruitment Newsletter August 2011

Legal Job Market Report 3rd August 2011

 
Still blowing hot and cold, the job market in July is still showing conflicting signs. One day we get 3-4 vacancies posted for similar fields (for example last week we had four litigation posts in the South West all posted on the same day) and others we get nothing. Locum assignments have been quiet this year as well, as a number of firms simply make do without cover over the summer to save costs. To a certain extent this is assisted by better remote working solutions, which means a partner can go away for two weeks but stay in touch with the office via remote access, but there is definitely a reluctance to pay locums to cover at some firms.
 
Conveyancing still seems to be picking up in some areas – central London has attracted a number of vacancies, together with other South East locations. Corporate fields still very quiet and a number of firms seem to change their spec every few weeks, particularly in larger regional practices. Following remains a strong requirement, and we are still getting this as part of a lot of job specifications.
 

Corporate commercial posts still picking up, litigation appears to be getting stronger, but certain fields are not seeing very much movement at all. Crime and other LSC funded fields appear to be on hold whilst the latest stream of directives from the Ministry of Justice sink in and cuts start to be specific rather than generally referred to. Support staff posts continue to come in steadily. Ten-Percent has been developing a niche in legal cashiers for some time and we see plenty of vacancies coming on stream.

In July the Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment Service had over 25 vacancies registered and 58 candidate registrations (solicitors, fee earners and legal support staff candidates). A number of new firms and existing clients have now signed over to the new £60 a month scheme and we anticipate reaching 100 member firms before Christmas.
 
Jonathan Fagan, MD Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment.

Links:
Register Vacancies Online
About Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment
£60 a Month Recruitment Service

 
Candidates Registered 20th July – 2nd August – A Selection
 
0108111 Police Station Rep – 8 years accredited, looking in London and Croydon. 
010811 Licensed Conveyancer. 5 years PQE. Experienced team leader, most recently handling plot sales. West Kent and Central London.
280711 Office Manager, exp in defendant PI firm, high street/commercial firm and public sector. Looking in Liverpool and London. Lexcel exp.
280711 Employment & Property Solicitor, 1 year PQE, looking around London and the South East. 
280711 Paralegal with over 5 years experience in Commercial Contracts, Family, Private Client, Commercial Property and Litigation. East Midlands. 
270711 Solicitor, 3 years PQE in Property Litigation work. London.
260711 Legal Secretary, 5 years experience, based in Reading. Temporary or permanent. 
210711 Police Station Rep looking in the West Midlands. 
210711 Duty Solicitor, Salaried Partner and Higher Court Advocate looking for work in North Yorkshire and Leeds. 
200711 Employment Solicitor, 1 year PQE looking around Greater London and Home Counties. 
200711 Duty Solicitor looking to move to a medium-large firm in London or Essex. 
200711 Property Solicitor, residential and commercial, 5 years PQE. High net worth experience. London and Home Counties.
190711 Clinical Negligence Executive (with general PI), 20 years experience, looking around Essex and London.
190711 Insolvency Solicitor, 5 years PQE, looking around the Home Counties. 
190711 Residential and Commercial Conveyancing Solicitor, 2 years PQE, Middlesex and London. 
190711 Conveyancing and Litigation Solicitor, 1 year PQE. With own following. West Midlands. Salaried role sought.
190711 Duty Solicitor looking around Gloucester and Bristol.
190711 Conveyancing locum fee earner available for assignments around Oxfordshire. 
 
Statistics from the Ten-Percent Candidate Database – full access to all members for £60 a month.
 
1,421 Property Solicitors with 3 years PQE or more. 
465 Private Client Solicitors with 3 years PQE or more.

310 Commercial Litigation Solicitors within 30 miles of central London.

105 Legal Cashiers.
285+ Crime Duty Solicitors registered, 85 with Higher Rights.
519 Company Commercial Solicitors.

80 Intellectual Property Law Solicitors.

134 Solicitors describe themselves as ‘In House’.
108 Clinical Negligence Solicitors
217 Professional Locums covering a wide range of legal fields.
 
To access the Candidate Database, please visit www.ten-percent.co.uk/membership-services 

New £60 Recruitment Service

Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment is now a service for member firms and employers only. We aim to have 100 legal employers signed up to the service by Christmas 2011 and are well on the way to achieving this. £60 a month for five years covers all your locum, permanent, temporary and contract employment, legal support staff, qualified or unqualified fee earners. You get full access to our CV database and a range of job boards as part of the service. Further details on our website at www.ten-percent.co.uk/membership-services. To go ahead and sign up please visit www.ten-percent.co.uk/membershipterms. Click the button, fill out a form, and we will send you over a welcome pack including the code to instantly access our Candidate Database.

Discounted Professional Indemnity Insurance Scheme – over £750k of premiums referred
As the new PII year gets closer we have now referred over £750k worth of premiums through to our accountants, who are part of a network responsible for 10% or 20% discount schemes on all PII renewal quotes. If you would like to receive details of this, please reply to this email with your firm name, contact name, current premium or renewal quote, and we will forward this through to our accountants who will get in touch to explain the schemes in further detail.
 
Serial Job Applicants – an avoidable menace? 
 
We recently undertook an assignment for a central London law firm handling high net worth property work. Over 120 applications were received for the post, which was a conveyancing clerk role – around 3 years experience required and salary levels c.£26-28k.  The quality of the applications was mostly good, and it took a considerable time to sift through these to shortlist 12 candidates to go forward to the firm to be considered.
 
Part of the process includes telephoning the candidates and gauging their commitment to the post and firm, which is imperative when making sure that we only put forward those certain to go ahead. All 12 candidates sounded keen, interested in the post and very suitable. We forwarded the CVs through, and got the expected feedback that the firm wanted to interview 6 of the candidates.
 
On telephoning two of the candidates, their tone completely changed when we advised them that the firm wanted to interview. Suddenly instead of commitment, interest and enthusiasm we got hesitation, uncertainty and concerns. It was immediately apparent that we had Serial Job Applicants on our hands….
 
So what is a Serial Job Applicant? They can be fairly easily spotted. 
 
1. They have been with the same firm for about 3-5 years. 
2. It is fairly clear from the CV that they have not progressed with their careers during that time. 
3. Their current firm is a happy place or at least not a bad place to be. 
4. Often have strong family commitments.
 
They usually like the idea of being in demand and want someone to care about them. Their current firm probably do not give them any encouragement or praise so instead they use job applications to get this. After all, what could be easier than sending a CV off, speaking to a recruitment consultant and finding out that they have been selected for shortlisting and then interview.
 
I reckon that most recruitment consultants can spot them within about 10 minutes of talking and instinctively know that they may turn out to be useless. On this occasion however, I completely missed them both!
 

If only all legal employers took care of their staff and were nice to them occasionally, we would not see this problem as often as we do. Sod’s Law naturally dictates that at least one of the best candidates for the job we are recruiting for will be a serial job applicant.

 

Outsourcing Secretarial Work – 10% discount on first order

 
TP Transcription is an Online Transcription & Typing Service with offices in London and North Wales with a team of 20 UK based transcribers offering digital file  and tape transcribing services worldwide. Established in 2001, the company has been handling bulk orders (including over 500 hour projects) and one-off assignments for legal and non-legal clients including a large number of solicitors firms, B&Q, Endemol, the Office of Fair Trading, Sony, Dundee University, Cartridge World, University of Oxford, NHS Tayside, the British Medical Journal, Marie Curie and many more.

We provide ongoing typing contracts and also work on a one-off basis. Our transcribers are all based in the UK and we maintain a high standard of quality output. Our transcribers are experienced secretaries from the legal profesison, medicine or general business and some are educated to degree level and higher.

It is now possible to outsource secretarial work at very low cost. We supply the software which includes an online portal. The set up cost can be less than 200 per user including hardware and with no ongoing costs (other than the actual transcription).
We can transcribe from all audio & digital files, whether WAV, WMA, DSS (Olympus) or MP3 (plus a host of other formats), CD or DVD, Standard Cassettes, Mini and Micro Cassettes and Video (VHS). We have FTP facilities. For legal work we are happy to take templates to transcribe into. Our main service for law firms is our capacity to free up ‘in office’ secretaries to undertake daily tasks whilst reducing the backlog of work or any large transcription jobs. For details of the service please visit http://www.uk-transcription.co.uk/, call 01352 751945 or email pearl@uk-transcription.co.uk.
 

 

Salary Review Update
The Ten-Percent Legal Salary Survey is available online – Click the link below to view the surveys, which are broken down into geographical areas:   http://www.ten-percent.co.uk/salary-reviews-for-lawyers-ten-percent-legal-recruitment.html
 
Our most recent Crime Solicitor salary list is available on our blog at http://www.legalrecruitment.blogspot.com/
About Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment
Formed in April 2000, Ten-Percent is an innovative recruitment membership service run online for law firms and employers across the UK and offshore offering free recruitment to members. Over 1,300 law firms and companies have used our services, and we have over 8,000 solicitors & legal executives registered for opportunities, as well as other fee earners and support staff. We donate 10% of our annual profits to charity. http://www.ten-percent.co.uk/
 
Please email us details of any vacancies to cv@ten-percent.co.uk or register the vacancy online on our website.
Legal Recruitment News
For older editions of the Legal Recruitment News, and free articles on recruitment, legal careers, training, SEO & Web Marketing, please visit https://legal-recruitment.co.uk/ . You can also visit the http://www.legalrecruitment.blogspot.com/ for over 200 articles on Legal Recruitment including advice for candidates. 
 
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Email: cv@ten-percent.co.uk
Website: http://www.ten-percent.co.uk/ : https://legal-recruitment.co.uk/
Tel: 0207 127 4343 
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Candidate Legal Recruitment Newsletter July 2011

Legal Recruitment Newsletter for Candidates July 2011
 
 Important Announcement from Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment
Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment has recently completely changed (Monday July 11th) into a membership service. Over the 11 years we have been in the recruitment business we have constantly been asked: “Why do you charge so much?” or “Why should we give you £6,000 plus VAT for just sending us a CV and arranging an interview?”

An interview only occurs once each time 20 CVs are sent out. For every 7 interviews arranged, only 1 results in a job offer. 33% of candidates reject each job offer and 5% leave within a week or fail to start. So whilst the work done in sending one CV to an employer is extremely minor, because of the way contingency fees work the client basically pays for all the work done on at least 100 other candidates and 6 other law firms.  We have worked out that each of our clients pays for work done on at least 10 other vacancies and 100 candidates.

This is the thinking behind our membership service. Instead of paying a large, one-off hit for recruiting a candidate, members recruit at no cost.
 
It is important you are aware of this change as it means the following for any candidates on our database:
 
1. Our service remains the same, except that in future any vacancies you see on our site will be from member firms.
2. None of our consultants will be receiving any commission for selling you to a law firm. We will get the same whether you find a job or not.
3. There will be a transition period whilst we move older vacancies onto the new system and remove others from firms who do not wish to sign up.
 
Point 3 is the most important for candidates. There are plenty of you out there who have applied for vacancies through us where firms have advertised without any real intention to recruit and just wasted everyone’s time. We hope that the new system will remove this, as every firm will have paid to advertise and recruit through us and by doing so we will have become the number one choice for any CVs submitted. Our clients will almost remain with us for five years, which means that we will know them well.

If you want to see further details of the service, please visit www.ten-percent.co.uk/membership-services 

Legal Job Market Report 13th July 2011 

The job market in June has shown conflicting signs. At various intervals we have picked up vacancies from good, reputable firms, looking to pay salaries and not after a following which rarely exists in the profession. At other times it has been very quiet. Conveyancing is clearly making a comeback (again) and we are starting to see a good number of posts coming through in the field, which is good news indeed. Once conveyancing work increases, so will other fields of law. There have been a number of false starts here, so we hold our breath!

Corporate commercial posts have increased, particularly at the 0-3 year PQE salary bracket, and a number of NQs from last year are starting to find employment now. Support staff posts continue to come in steadily. Ten-Percent has been developing a niche in legal cashiers for some time and we see plenty of vacancies coming on stream Crime solicitors are also starting to get enquiries and we anticipate quite a few firms looking to expand their duty solicitor numbers before the next CDS12 deadline.

In June Ten-Percent Legal had 17 vacancies registered and 73 candidate registrations (solicitors, fee earners and legal support staff candidates).

 
Jonathan Fagan, MD Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment.

Links:
Register Vacancies Online
About Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment

How much are Law Firms paying for Professional Indemnity Insurance?
 
We have recently emailed out a flyer to over 8,000 law firms and employers offering a solution to reduce professional indemnity insurance (PII) by either 10% if they stay with their existing provider, or 20% if they move to a new provider (please contact us if you would like details – email cv@ten-percent.co.uk). This is a scheme being operated through a new provider, one of the largest insurance companies in Europe.

Unsurprisingly a large number of firms have responded to request further details. 

 
The variation in PII premiums being charged to firms is quite amazing. We thought lawyers may be interested to know what sort of premiums get charged. Some examples:
 
A sole practitioner in the South East – £3,500
South East 3 solicitor practice – £22,000
North West 3 solicitor litigation practice – £11,000
Central London small practice – £11,000
Midlands firm with <10 solicitors – £30,000
London 5 solicitor practice – £22,000
Midlands practice – <10 solicitors – £60,000
South East practice – 10-20 solicitors – £110,000
Surrey practice – 15 solicitors – £185,000
 
Most sole practitioners not undertaking property work appear to be able to get PII for around £3,000 – £5,000.
 
Many years ago, when I was training, I recall that the profession was going through the process of opening the PII market up to private providers. The arguments being put forward included the notion that competition was healthy and good, encouraging good firms and dissuading bad ones. In recent times I hear time and again from firms that insurance premiums rocket sky high every year and it is almost impossible to change providers if a claim is made against you. It seems to be the case that PII insurance in the legal profession is reaching astronomical levels for some firms and must eat into a huge percentage of turnover each year. I have heard a horror story of a 20 solicitor practice being quoted £1.5 million to renew.

Surely there are firms out there somewhere who are doing something about this state of affairs? Have any law firms looked into purchasing their insurance together as a syndicate? To use a rather weak analogy our local community council recently got the village playing field insured for free when they discovered they could include the playing field on the village pond insurance costing £250, saving around £900 per year…. Has the profession acquiesced to insuring their practices for a high premium and simply got used to paying it? Have PII premiums in fact gone up very much since private competition was introduced 10 years ago? Medical PII used to cost around £500 per month per practitioner, in what could be seen as an extremely high risk profession. Recruitment PII costs around £600 per year for a small company not employing temps directly. Is it cheaper for solicitors to obtain PII insurance individually rather than as a firm?

We are going to look into offering access to PII as part of the new Ten-Percent Recruitment Service, recently launched (see article below). If we get anywhere, I will keep you posted. 

Outsourcing Secretarial Work – 10% discount on first order Salary Review Update
The Ten-Percent Legal Salary Survey is available online – Click the link below to view the surveys, which are broken down into geographical areas:   http://www.ten-percent.co.uk/salary-reviews-for-lawyers-ten-percent-legal-recruitment.html
 

TP Transcription is an Online Transcription & Typing Service with offices in London and North Wales with a team of 20 UK based transcribers offering digital file  and tape transcribing services worldwide. Established in 2001, the company has been handling bulk orders (including over 500 hour projects) and one-off assignments for legal and non-legal clients including a large number of solicitors firms, B&Q, Endemol, the Office of Fair Trading, Sony, Dundee University, Cartridge World, University of Oxford, NHS Tayside, the British Medical Journal, Marie Curie and many more.

We provide ongoing typing contracts and also work on a one-off basis. Our transcribers are all based in the UK and we maintain a high standard of quality output. Our transcribers are experienced secretaries from the legal profesison, medicine or general business and some are educated to degree level and higher.

It is now possible to outsource secretarial work at very low cost. We supply the software which includes an online portal. The set up cost can be less than 200 per user including hardware and with no ongoing costs (other than the actual transcription).
We can transcribe from all audio & digital files, whether WAV, WMA, DSS (Olympus) or MP3 (plus a host of other formats), CD or DVD, Standard Cassettes, Mini and Micro Cassettes and Video (VHS). We have FTP facilities. For legal work we are happy to take templates to transcribe into. Our main service for law firms is our capacity to free up ‘in office’ secretaries to undertake daily tasks whilst reducing the backlog of work or any large transcription jobs. For details of the service please visit http://www.uk-transcription.co.uk/, call 01352 751945 or email pearl@uk-transcription.co.uk.
 
Our most recent Crime Solicitor salary list is available on our blog at http://www.legalrecruitment.blogspot.com/
About Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment
Formed in April 2000, Ten-Percent is an innovative recruitment membership service run online for law firms and employers across the UK and offshore offering free recruitment to members. Over 1,300 law firms and companies have used our services, and we have over 8,000 solicitors & legal executives registered for opportunities, as well as other fee earners and support staff. We donate 10% of our annual profits to charity. http://www.ten-percent.co.uk/
 
Please email us details of any vacancies to cv@ten-percent.co.uk or register the vacancy online on our website.
Legal Recruitment News
For older editions of the Legal Recruitment News, and free articles on recruitment, legal careers, training, SEO & Web Marketing, please visit https://legal-recruitment.co.uk/ . You can also visit the http://www.legalrecruitment.blogspot.com/ for over 200 articles on Legal Recruitment including advice for candidates. 
 
Legal Recruitment News and Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment
Email: cv@ten-percent.co.uk
Website: http://www.ten-percent.co.uk/ : https://legal-recruitment.co.uk/
Tel: 0207 127 4343   

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Legal Recruitment News for Law Firms – July 2011

Legal Recruitment Newsletter July 2011
https://legal-recruitment.co.uk
Sponsored by Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment

Contents:
Legal Job Market Report 13th July 2011
Professional Indemnity Insurance – how much are law firms paying?
New £60 a month Recruitment Services launched – what’s the catch?
Salary Reviews Available Online
Outsourcing your Secretaries
Candidates registered 6th June – 13th July 2011
Apply for Ten-Percent Recruitment Membership

Legal Job Market Report 13th July 2011
The job market in June has shown conflicting signs. At various intervals we have picked up vacancies from good, reputable firms, looking to pay salaries and not after a following which rarely exists in the profession. At other times it has been very quiet. Conveyancing is clearly making a comeback (again) and we are starting to see a good number of posts coming through in the field, which is good news indeed. Once conveyancing work increases, so will other fields of law. There have been a number of false starts here, so we hold our breath!

Corporate commercial posts have increased, particularly at the 0-3 year PQE salary bracket, and a number of NQs from last year are starting to find employment now. Support staff posts continue to come in steadily. Ten-Percent has been developing a niche in legal cashiers for some time and we see plenty of vacancies coming on stream Crime solicitors are also starting to get enquiries and we anticipate quite a few firms looking to expand their duty solicitor numbers before the next CDS12 deadline.

In June Ten-Percent Legal had 17 vacancies registered and 73 candidate registrations (solicitors, fee earners and legal support staff candidates).

Jonathan Fagan, MD Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment.

How much are Law Firms paying for Professional Indemnity Insurance?

We have recently emailed out a flyer to over 8,000 law firms and employers offering a solution to reduce professional indemnity insurance (PII) by either 10% if you stay with your existing provider, or 20% if you move to a new provider (please contact us if you would like details – email cv@ten-percent.co.uk, subject: “PII”). This is a scheme being operated through a new provider, one of the largest insurance companies in Europe.

Unsurprisingly a large number of firms have responded to request further details.

The variation in PII premiums being charged to firms is quite amazing. Some examples:

A sole practitioner in the South East – £3,500
South East 3 solicitor practice – £22,000
North West 3 solicitor litigation practice – £11,000
Central London small practice – £11,000
Midlands firm with <10 solicitors – £30,000
London 5 solicitor practice – £22,000
Midlands practice – <10 solicitors – £60,000
South East practice – 10-20 solicitors – £110,000

Most sole practitioners not undertaking property work appear to be able to get PII for around £3,000 – £5,000.

Many years ago, when I was training, I recall that the profession was going through the process of opening the PII market up to private providers. The arguments being put forward included the notion that competition was healthy and good, encouraging good firms and dissuading bad ones.
In recent times I hear time and again from firms that insurance premiums rocket sky high every year and it is almost impossible to change providers if a claim is made against you. It seems to be the case that PII insurance in the legal profession is reaching astronomical levels for some firms and must eat into a huge percentage of turnover each year. I have heard a horror story of a 20 solicitor practice being quoted £1.5 million to renew.

Surely there are firms out there somewhere who are doing something about this state of affairs? Have any law firms looked into purchasing their insurance together as a syndicate? To use a rather weak analogy our local community council recently got the village playing field insured for free when they discovered they could include the playing field on the village pond insurance costing £250, saving around £900 per year….

Has the profession acquiesced to insuring their practices for a high premium and simply got used to paying it? Have PII premiums in fact gone up very much since private competition was introduced 10 years ago? Medical PII used to cost around £500 per month per practitioner, in what could be seen as an extremely high risk profession. Recruitment PII costs around £600 per year for a small company not employing temps directly. Is it cheaper for solicitors to obtain PII insurance individually rather than as a firm?

We are going to look into offering access to PII as part of the new Ten-Percent Recruitment Service, recently launched (see article below). If we get anywhere, I will keep you posted.

New £60 Recruitment Service Launched – what’s the catch?

Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment has recently completely changed (Monday July 11th) into a membership service. Over the 11 years we have been in the recruitment business we have constantly been asked:

“Why do you charge so much?” or “Why should we give you £6,000 plus VAT for just sending us a CV and arranging an interview?”

An interview only occurs once each time 20 CVs are sent out. For every 7 interviews arranged, only 1 results in a job offer. 33% of candidates reject each job offer and 5% leave within a week or fail to start. So whilst the work done in sending one CV to an employer is extremely minor, because of the way contingency fees work the client basically pays for all the work done on at least 100 other candidates and 6 other law firms. We have worked out that each of our clients pays for work done on at least 10 other vacancies and 100 candidates.

This is the thinking behind our membership club. Instead of paying a large, one-off hit for recruiting a candidate, employers recruit every candidate completely free of charge. There is no cost at all. Nothing. Not a penny.

Since our launch on Monday I have already been telephoned by a firm and asked:

“What’s the catch?”

The catch is membership of Ten-Percent, costing £60 per month and fixed for five years. We will no longer do any recruitment work for non-members. The £60 per month fee will not alter during the five year period and neither will it be reduced with special offers, now or in the future.

A senior partner called to ask:

“I am a sole practitioner. Why should I pay £60 a month when I might only recruit one candidate in five years and you cannot guarantee success?”

No recruitment process can possibly guarantee to find candidates every time you recruit. However, because our service encompasses job boards, a CV database, our own website and discounted Law Society Gazette advertising if needed, we have created a full recruitment service for a fraction of the usual cost. You may only use the service once in 2011, but come back in three years to get a locum for 2 weeks, a legal secretary and another solicitor and you will again have saved a substantial amount of money.

A HR Manager called to ask:

“What do you charge for candidates on top of the membership fees and do we get exclusive access to candidates who apply for our jobs?”

We explained that there are no charges. The only cost is the membership fee.

The system works as follows:

• You register a vacancy with us.
• We send the vacancy to all relevant candidates on our database. They respond.
• We forward suitable CVs to you.
• At the same time we post your vacancy across a number of job sites and websites.
• All the applications that loosely fit the job specification are forwarded through to you.
• We handle the job vacancy enquiries, we arrange interviews and assist with negotiations and job offers.
• You can also search our Candidate Database and request specific CVs.

In essence you get Recruitment Consultancy + Job Board Services for considerably less than the cost of each service.

Don’t believe us? Contact recruitment agencies and see how much they charge. Give SimplyLawJobs or Totallylegal a ring and ask how much you would pay to access their CV database and post your vacancy. Not for £60 a month.

Another partner called us to ask:

“How much do you charge for locums?”

Nothing. Not a penny. It is included in the price. Of course you still have to pay the locum (we will negotiate the rate for you), but there is no recruitment fee charged on top of this.

Finally a South East smaller sized firm who have signed up to the service already said:

“This is an outstanding idea and very innovative. We took a candidate last year on a contingency fee from another agency and it cost us about £6,500 plus VAT. We are not even sure we will keep them on the books for very long.”

This is precisely the problem we have developed this service to avoid. If a candidate leaves, you simply recruit another one at no extra cost.

What about Ten Percent Unlimited? – This service will run in tandem with the membership service. The difference between the services is minimal apart from the contract length and the price. Ten Percent Unlimited offers 1 year contracts. For details please visit http://www.tenpercentunlimited.co.uk/ 

If you are interested, have a look at the full terms and conditions on our website. The address is www.ten-percent.co.uk/membershipterms. To go ahead simply click the button, fill out a form, and we will send you over a welcome pack including the code to instantly access our Candidate Database.

Candidates registered or updated up to 13th July

To access our Candidate Database online please contact us at cv@ten-percent.co.uk. Access to our candidate database is via our membership services, either through Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment (£60 a month for 5 years) or Ten-Percent Unlimited (12 month contracts available).

74 new candidates registered in June – all solicitors, legal executives, legal cashiers and experienced fee earners.

Outsourcing Secretarial Work – 10% discount on first order

TP Transcription is an Online Transcription & Typing Service with offices in London and North Wales with a team of 20 UK based transcribers offering digital file and tape transcribing services worldwide. Established in 2001, the company has been handling bulk orders (including over 500 hour projects) and one-off assignments for legal and non-legal clients including a large number of solicitors firms, B&Q, Endemol, the Office of Fair Trading, Sony, Dundee University, Cartridge World, University of Oxford, NHS Tayside, the British Medical Journal, Marie Curie and many more.

We provide ongoing typing contracts and also work on a one-off basis. Our transcribers are all based in the UK and we maintain a high standard of quality output. Our transcribers are experienced secretaries from the legal profesison, medicine or general business and some are educated to degree level and higher.

It is now possible to outsource secretarial work at very low cost. We supply the software which includes an online portal. The set up cost can be less than 200 per user including hardware and with no ongoing costs (other than the actual transcription).

We can transcribe from all audio & digital files, whether WAV, WMA, DSS (Olympus) or MP3 (plus a host of other formats), CD or DVD, Standard Cassettes, Mini and Micro Cassettes and Video (VHS). We have FTP facilities. For legal work we are happy to take templates to transcribe into. Our main service for law firms is our capacity to free up ‘in office’ secretaries to undertake daily tasks whilst reducing the backlog of work or any large transcription jobs. For details of the service please visit http://www.uk-transcription.co.uk/ call 01352 751945 or email pearl@uk-transcription.co.uk.

Salary Review Update
The Ten-Percent Legal Salary Survey is available online – Click the link below to view the surveys, which are broken down into geographical areas: http://www.ten-percent.co.uk/salary-reviews-for-lawyers-ten-percent-legal-recruitment.html 

Our most recent Crime Solicitor salary list is available on our blog at http://www.legalrecruitment.blogspot.com/  

About Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment
Formed in April 2000, Ten-Percent is an innovative recruitment membership service run online for law firms and employers across the UK and offshore offering free recruitment to members. Over 1,300 law firms and companies have used our services, and we have over 8,000 solicitors & legal executives registered for opportunities, as well as other fee earners and support staff. We donate 10% of our annual profits to charity. http://www.ten-percent.co.uk/

Please email us details of any vacancies to cv@ten-percent.co.uk or register the vacancy online on our website.

The Ten-Percent website redesign
We have just relaunched our website to make it look more up to date and user friendly. It also has all our resources accessible in one place. We have already started to see more commercial and corporate solicitors register, an area we have been traditionally less strong. High street and locum lawyers seem to have appreciated the very basic design of the original site a little more!

Legal Recruitment News
For older editions of the Legal Recruitment News, and free articles on recruitment, legal careers, training, SEO & Web Marketing, please visit https://legal-recruitment.co.uk/ You can also visit the http://www.legalrecruitment.blogspot.com/  for over 200 articles on Legal Recruitment including advice for candidates.

Legal Recruitment News and Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment
Email: cv@ten-percent.co.uk
Website: http://www.ten-percent.co.uk/  : https://legal-recruitment.co.uk/
Tel: 0207 127 4343

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Legal Recruitment News for Law Firms

Recruitment News for Law Firms and Legal Employers, April 2011.

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Legal Careers News – April 2011

Legal Careers News for Jobseekers in Law, Lawyers and Law Students.

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April 2011 Candidate Legal Recruitment News

Legal Recruitment News for April 2011 for Lawyers looking for work.

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