Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment

14/10/2026

Our latest legal recruitment update includes commercial and property locum solicitors, a newly qualified IP solicitor, experienced paralegals and law firms available for acquisition.

The Ten Percent Group has over 1,850 registered and vetted locum solicitors through Interim Lawyers, 12,750 solicitors and legal executives registered for permanent work through Ten Percent Legal, and over 45 law firms for sale, with 2,600+ registered buyers, through Jonathan Fagan Business Brokers.

To request further details about any candidate below, email [email protected], quoting the candidate’s reference number, or call 0800 246 5001. Availability is subject to confirmation.

Webinar: Should Your Law Firm Become an ABS?

Wednesday 21 October 2026, 1–2pm

Would an Alternative Business Structure (ABS) suit your law firm?

Explore our latest locum solicitors, permanent legal candidates and law firms for sale, plus our upcoming webinar on law firm ABS applications.

07/10/2026

This week’s Ten Percent Legal update includes nine newly registered locum lawyers, thirteen candidates seeking permanent roles, details of our next free webinar for law firm owners and a newly listed shell law firm available for immediate sale.

FREE WEBINAR FOR LAW FIRM OWNERS
Should Your Law Firm Become an ABS?
Applications, ownership and your future exit
Wednesday 21 October 2026, 1–2pm
Would an Alternative Business Structure suit your law firm? Whether you are considering bringing a non-lawyer into ownership, exploring outside investment or planning your eventual exit, there are practical questions to work through before making an application.
The webinar will cover non-lawyer ownership, the ABS application process, likely costs and timescales, common application pitfalls and the relationship between ABS status, investment, succession and a future sale.

Ten Percent Legal Update 7th October 2026 ABS Webinar, Locum & Permanent Lawyers and Law Firm for Sale.

23/09/2026

WEEKLY RECRUITMENT UPDATE · 23 SEPTEMBER 2026

WEBINAR FOR LAW FIRM OWNERS
Selling an SME Law Firm: How to Value Your Practice and Increase Its Value
Tuesday 29 September 2026 · 1–2pm
Register for the webinar
Explore the latest locum and permanent candidates from Ten Percent Legal and Interim Lawyers, alongside two law firms available for sale or merger through Jonathan Fagan Business Brokers.
Locum candidates · 22Permanent candidates · 9Law firms for sale · 2
Interested in a candidate? Use the enquiry link on their profile or email [email protected], quoting the reference. There are 30 individual candidates; CN33464 is open to both locum and permanent work and appears in both sections.Locum candidatesRecently registered candidates seeking locum or contract opportunities.CN33464Commercial propertyBournemouth / remote14 years’ PQE commercial property solicitor, looking for a suitable hybrid role in the Bournemouth area and surrounds, or working remotely from home.

Browse locum and permanent legal candidates, explore two law firms for sale and register for our law firm valuation webinar on 29 September.

16/09/2026

Ten Percent Legal Update – 16 September 2026

New webinar, locum and permanent candidates, plus law firms currently for sale.

Ten Percent Legal
New Candidates and Law Firm Sales Update
16 September 2026

The Ten Percent Group has over 1,850 registered and vetted locum solicitors on our Interim Lawyers platform, 12,750 solicitors looking for work via Ten Percent Legal, and more than 45 law firms for sale, with 2,100+ registered law firm buyers. To request details of a candidate, simply reply to this email and quote the reference number.

NEW WEBINAR FOR LAW FIRM OWNERS
Selling an SME Law Firm: How to Value Your Practice and Increase Its Value
Tuesday 29 September 2026, 1–2pm
Register for the Webinar

This Week's Highlights

New Locum Lawyer
12 year PQE private client solicitor seeking locum roles around Cornwall or via remote working.

09/09/2026

Ten Percent Legal Weekly Update

New webinar, locum and permanent candidates, plus law firms currently for sale.

Ten Percent Legal
New Candidates and Law Firm Sales Update

The Ten Percent Group has over 1,850 registered and vetted locum solicitors on our Interim Lawyers platform, 12,750 solicitors looking for work via Ten Percent Legal, and more than 45 law firms for sale, with 2,100+ registered law firm buyers. To request details of a candidate, simply reply to this email and quote the reference number.

NEW WEBINAR FOR LAW FIRM OWNERS
Selling an SME Law Firm: How to Value Your Practice and Increase Its Value
Tuesday 29 September 2026, 1–2pm
Register for the Webinar

This Week's Highlights

New Locum Lawyer
15 year PQE corporate commercial solicitor specialising in compliance and seeking consultancy roles, preferably in and around London.

03/09/2026

The Ten Percent Foundation has made a £500 donation to Purple Patch Arts, a Yorkshire charity helping learning-disabled people to thrive, learn and be heard.

Purple Patch Arts uses creativity as a route into learning. Its sessions combine art, music, drama, movement, literature, sensory activities and discussion. This enables participants to explore subjects at their own pace and in ways that work for them.

Creative and inclusive learning

The charity’s Purple Patch Approach has been developed through years of working with learning-disabled adults and young people.

The work is not simply about providing an enjoyable activity. Purple Patch Arts uses creative learning to support confidence, communication, independence, wellbeing and social connections.

Its services include Lifelong Learning Programmes, work with young people moving into adulthood, accessibility projects and activities that help other organisations engage meaningfully with learning-disabled people.

The Ten Percent Foundation has donated £500 to Purple Patch Arts, which provides creative learning for learning-disabled people in Yorkshire.

02/09/2026

Ten Percent Legal Weekly Update

New webinar, locum and permanent candidates, plus law firms currently for sale.

Ten Percent Legal
Weekly opportunities and law firm sales update

The Ten Percent Group has over 1,850 registered and vetted locum solicitors on our Interim Lawyers platform, 12,750 solicitors looking for work via Ten Percent Legal, and more than 45 law firms for sale, with 2,100+ registered law firm buyers. To request details of a candidate, simply reply to this email and quote the reference number.

NEW WEBINAR FOR LAW FIRM OWNERS
Selling an SME Law Firm: How to Value Your Practice and Increase Its Value
Tuesday 29 September 2026, 1–2pm
Register for the webinar

This week's highlights

New locum lawyer highlight
25 year PQE commercial property solicitor seeking locum roles around Cheshire or remotely.

02/09/2026

AI can be very useful for writing legal job adverts. Give it the basic facts about a vacancy and, within seconds, you can have a reasonably polished advert ready to work on. The important words here are “work on”.

We are starting to see more legal job adverts that have quite clearly been written by AI and then posted without anyone giving them much thought. They tend to be long, rather grandiose and packed with phrases that no solicitor has ever used when talking about their next job. Used properly, AI can save a considerable amount of time. Used badly, it can make your firm sound exactly the same as everyone else.

Here are 10 things we recommend you don't do when using AI to write a legal job advert.

1. Don't post the first draft - treat the first version as exactly that: a first draft. Read it, edit it and make sure it sounds like your firm rather than something generated by a robot for any law firm anywhere in the country.

AI can be very useful for writing legal job adverts. Give it the basic facts about a vacancy and, within seconds, you can have a reasonably polished advert ready to work on.

27/08/2026

The UK legal recruitment market remained quieter than expected during the summer of 2026, although there are some signs that the wider employment market may be starting to improve.

During July, the Ten Percent Group added 20 new locum roles, compared with 29 during the same period in 2025. We received 14 new permanent vacancies, compared with 16 last year, while new candidate registrations fell from 73 to 47.

Locum recruitment has been steady rather than busy. Conveyancing locum rates have started to fall slightly, with the lowest rates we are currently seeing at around £40 per hour. Permanent recruitment remains quiet, largely because many solicitors are reluctant to move unless a new position offers a significant improvement in salary, career prospects or working arrangements.

There is slightly more encouraging news in the latest KPMG and REC Report on Jobs.

The UK legal recruitment market remained quieter than expected during the summer of 2026, although there are some signs that the wider employment market may be

20/08/2026

Locum solicitors are usually recruited because they can arrive and get on with the work without needing their hand held, but this does not mean they should be left entirely to their own devices. Every law firm must have effective systems for supervising client matters and this applies to permanent employees, partners, consultants and locum solicitors. The level of supervision may differ, but the underlying responsibility remains.

Remote locum working has made this issue particularly important. A solicitor may be working productively from home, 200 miles away from the office, but the firm must still know:

- Which files they are handling.

- What stage each matter has reached.

- What deadlines are approaching.

- What advice has been given.

- Where documents and client information are stored.

- Whether anything needs to be escalated.

- Who will take over if the locum becomes unavailable.

The good news is that remote supervision can work extremely well.

Many thanks for your help. You’ve got us sorted with a locum in the time it’s taken others I contacted to make a few calls to me and tell me how great they are…