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What is the annual salary for this role?
Starting salary: £21,000 - £23,000
Current salary: £37,000 - £39,000
What hours do you actually work, on average?
Start: 9:00
Finish: 19:00
What advice would you give to someone applying to this role?
Graduates are often told to focus on "Commercial Awareness," which is often misinterpreted as reciting some newspaper article or current affairs issue during the interview process. However, commercial awareness is much more than simply regurgitating a news bite on Brexit or Donald Trump! It is about demonstrating that you appreciate the firm ultimately exists to make money and that you understand the business model behind this (i.e. that most law firms operate a "thirds" profit model - one third for salaries, one third for other overheads and one third profit).
It is also essential that you understand the client base that you will be working with, and how their own industry operates. For example, if you are going to be working with Insolvency Practitioners, you need to understand that much of their business works on a reciprocal basis and that part of your responsibility as a fee earner will be to spot and drive referral opportunities to these clients.
Do you have any interview tips?
You will inevitably be asked why you wanted to go into law. I have often thought that candidates feel compelled to provide a slightly artificial answer to this. Further, I'm not altogether sure that your answer to this question really reveals much about you as a person. Quite often, the big decisions in our life (i.e. whether you want to be a lawyer) are shaped by things outside of our control (where we grew up, whether we had a particularly inspiring law teacher). I think what candidates (and recruiters) should focus on is what sort of lawyer you want to be. I feel that it is these smaller choices that actually reveal a lot more about the type of candidate you are to the employer.
p.s. you will probably receive an oddball question like "what is a tort" - be prepared!
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