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.
2018
- firms are recruiting on the basis that you will need to be working
for at least 2 days a week or 14 hours weekly for a firm so seek full
and part time duty solicitors. We understand that the rota slots will
be in the name of the firm rather than the duty solicitor but if we
are wrong with this please let us know. There are both salaried and
consultancy roles available this year.
We
have posted the relevant provisions from the 2017 crime contract for
employment
status of duty solicitors on the Ten Percent Legal Recruitment website
- click here.
Drop
us a CV over and we'll keep you posted with any roles coming in together
with indicated rates. - email to cv@crime-solicitor.co.uk.
Looking
to make a move? Read our Article : Should I Stay or Should I Go
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. 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 since
February 2016 we are back to slots, rotas and monthly retainers/part
time hours (min 14 per week). In 2017 we saw an increase in the recruitment
of salaried staff and this has continued into 2018.
Rates
have fluctuated somewhat but have been around £800-£1,000
per month in recent times for the bare minimum of by duty solicitors
work plus either an hourly rate for anything in addition, plus 70-90%
of your own callout work. Salary levels currently around £30-35k
for a duty solicitor. 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.
There
is a guidance letter from the Legal Services Commission here detailing
the minimum requirements for these types of arrangements a few years
ago. The LSC (now the LAA) 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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We offer
legal job vacancies, including our
online searchable database, vacancy
bulletins by email, market
reports, CV
advisory services, a legal
careers centre, 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.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.
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