Fifteen Steps To Interview Success

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Love them, or more likely loathe them, Interviews are unavoidable for most of us, but with the right preparation and approach you can significantly increase your chances of getting the job. Below are a number of tips that have served lawyers well over the years. You’ll never need all of them but by preparing properly, […]

Associates – Ten Steps To Partnership

It used to be so easy – qualify into a good firm, serve your time as an associate and then wait for the invitation to the heady world of Partnership with its associated life of long-lunches and lucrative drawings.  Well, no doubt many older lawyers would dispute the accuracy of that assessment but it is […]

Exiting a long term job

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“Inertia – noun 1. a tendency to do nothing or to remain unchanged. (Oxford English Dictionary)” Far be it for a recruitment consultancy to suggest that people stay in jobs too long. In fact there is a strong case to say that a long-term career in one firm, with the right levels of progression, consistently […]

I’m a City lawyer, get me out of here!

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People often discuss the challenges of securing Partnership in the City but what happens when, after years of training, you find yourself amongst the elite of the City’s Associates only to discover this isn’t quite what you thought it would be? Here is our ten point guide to what to do Don’t panic – we speak […]

Opportunities for corporate lawyers in New Zealand

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Origin Legal International is working in collaboration with a New Zealand based legal recruiter on a number of vacancies for mid-senior level Corporate/Commercial Associates. Openings exist in the leading law firms in the market and span the Auckland, Wellington & Christchurch offices. This is an exciting and potentially life-changing opportunity. That New Zealand offers a […]

Planning Law Recruitment Update June 2015

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Is the demand for talent set to continue? by Stuart Phillips In my last update in December I wrote about the elevated rise in demand for talent at all levels across the planning sphere and predicted that we may begin to see a “war for talent” as practices look to service an increased avidity from […]

Solicitors Qualifying in 2015 and 2016

2015 Regional Market for Newly Qualified Solicitors. Background The legal NQ recruitment market in the Midlands is changing and has been changing over the last 15 years. Historically if we look back to 2000-2005 the NQ market would not start gathering pace until June, July, August. Retention rates at law firms were high as was […]

Planning Law recruitment update Winter 2014/2015 by Stuart Phillips

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Recruitment into the Planning law sector has continued at an elevated level throughout 2014. Many firms are continuing to grow fuelled by increased confidence and optimism in the economy and the burgeoning real estate sector. The predicted race for talent acquisition has also encouraged more lawyers into the area which bodes well for the future. […]

Online Timesheet Module goes live

Online Timesheet Module goes live

Our web designers, Easy IT, launched the online timesheet application on Origin Legal’s website in October 2014. In line with the increased demand from our clients for a paperless, web based timesheet recording and authorising system Jan Van Hanegem created a secure portal for candidates and clients to administer the paperwork associated with temporary assignments […]