Crime Solicitor Recruitment Consultants

Legal Recruitment Consultants for Crime Solicitors & Police Station Representatives

Welcome to Crime Solicitor Legal Recruitment, offering personal & confidential criminal law job search services online to criminal solicitors seeking positions in the UK. We recruit for duty solicitors with the MCQ qualification (duty solicitor status), solicitors and barristers with higher rights of audience, VHCC Supervisors, Serious Fraud panel members, white collar crime specialists, in house advocates, police station accredited representatives and solicitors with or without the police station accreditation qualification (PSQ). We have specialist knowledge of criminal law jobs and have been assisting crime lawyers since April 2000. As ex-criminal defence solicitors and now specialist legal recruitment consultants, we have a good knowledge of law firms and potential roles for a criminal solicitor across the UK.

Click Here to Register your Details for the Duty Solicitor Rota Slot Shop

Update February 2nd 2016: May the Farce be with You! Michael Gove has cancelled the new contract "thing" and we are now back to duty solicitors, slots, rotas and retainers...Drop us a CV over and we'll keep you posted with any roles coming in together with indicated rates.

Email us a CV across if you want to be kept informed of vacancies - email to cv@crime-solicitor.co.uk.

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Sign your Duty Solicitor rota slots over to a crime firm in return for a monthly retainer - this is the new way of working for a lot of duty solicitors as margins get tighter and opportunities to make a living from criminal law get slimmer. There were a large number of firms looking to convert their solicitors onto this method of earning from 2012 onwards. Since (all) the UK political parties worked out that yet again an easy behind to kick is that of criminal defence solicitors, redundancy rounds took place in March-Sept 2013 and continued into 2014. Everything dropped off in 2015, but now in February 2016 we are back to slots, rotas and monthly retainers by the looks of things.

Rates were around £1,000 per month max for the slots plus 70-90% of your own callout work being at the higher end. Salary levels currently around £30-35k. However this all may well have changed this time round - up or down. Not yet clear. Please register for the Duty Solicitor Rota Slot Shop by clicking here or email us your CV to cv@crime-solicitor.co.uk. Suitable for salaried duty solicitors, freelance duty solicitors and duty solicitors looking to sign their rota slots to a firm.

We may start posting details on our Duty Solicitor Rota Slot Shop page if the market shows any signs of booming. I very much doubt it being that the LAA have given everyone about 10 days to sort this all out.

There is a guidance letter from the Legal Services Commission here detailing the minimum requirements for these types of arrangements. The LSC (now the LAA courtesy of a rebrand) very kindly wrote to us - not sure how they got the time, what with all the other pressures, like rebranding, working out where next to chop rates and discussing their performance...

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Crime Solicitor Legal Recruitment

Assisting Crime Solicitors and Police Station Representatives find new legal jobs across the UK at all levels including Partnership and law firms sales, offering a confidential service to Lawyers and Law Firms.

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We offer legal job vacancies, including our online searchable database, vacancy bulletins by email, market reports, CV advisory services, a legal careers centre, a careers forum, daily legal job articles and impartial careers advice. Duty solicitors are particularly welcomed, but we also assist recently & newly qualified solicitors, accredited police station representatives and all criminal law practitioners. We provide free and impartial careers advice to those starting out in the field, wanting salary reviews or career progression advice.

Crime Solicitor Legal Recruitment is part of the Ten-Percent Group of legal recruitment websites, and the company has a commitment to donating 10% of its net profits to charity each year via the Ten-Percent Foundation, a charitable trust.

For other types of law, please visit either Jonathan Fagan Legal Recruitment, www.chancerylane.co.uk - specialist legal job board, or the main www.ten-percent.co.uk website.

Crime Solicitor Recruitment : email cv@crime-solicitor.co.uk

For other types of law please visit the main www.ten-percent.co.uk website.

Updated 5th December 2014

Crime-Solicitor.co.uk - specialists for freelance duty solicitors, salaried duty solicitors, police station representatives and crime solicitors across the UK - LSC funded, VHCC panel members, Grade A fee earners, Grade B fee earners, white collar, fraud, private crime and general crime positions for duty solicitors, police station accredited solicitors, NQ solicitors, barristers, in house advocates, solicitors with higher rights, overseas lawyers, police station reps, probationary police station reps, outdoor clerks and fee earners.