Clayton Legal have conducted a regional salary survey to demonstrate the diversity that stems from many local, cultural and professional variations within the North West region, which demonstrates surprising results for regional law firms.
Clayton Legal, part of the Clayton Recruitment Group is very much aware of the current diversity within the legal market. The report is aimed to help law firms understand the importance of scales of remuneration. Law firms can now have access to a report that they can refer to for guidance.
Although, in the past, there have been regional salary surveys, Clayton Legal have gone to the next stage and produced a survey that breaks down the individual scales of remuneration as they are reflected within each regional area of the North West.
Lynn Sedgwick, Managing Director of Clayton Legal, “We want to show law firms the differences in remuneration, benefits and incentives that are particular to each regional area within the North West. Our legal division have built a reputation for attracting and placing all levels of solicitors, legal executives and legal support staff. It is imperative that we can demonstrate that our experience and research will help negotiations for all our clients. Our recruitment consultants are of the highest calibre and that has been demonstrated in our success rate in recruiting legal personnel in 2007.”
Clayton Legal worked with over 500 law firms in the North West when conducting the research for the survey. The law firms varied in size and turnover.
More than 48% of firms that responded to the survey put their recruitment requirements in a medium or high category. Only 3% of firms said that they would not be recruiting more people. Recruiting legal secretaries continues to be a problem with 52% of law firms reporting facing a shortage. 15% of law firms also seemed interested in recruiting senior associates or salaried partners. Legal recruiters continue to source staff for 67% of law firms.
Law firms in the North West stated that their recruitment requirements as ‘robust’ over the last year.
Manchester continues to lead on the salary scale for junior or less experienced positions. Senior positions however, show almost no difference in salary levels compared with the rest of the North West, with many companies willing to match Manchester salaries, if it means finding the perfect candidate for their position.
Lynn continues, “Many law firms strive to find the perfect candidate and our legal recruitment process is often lengthy and time consuming. Our dedicated legal recruitment team continue to work with law firms, taking the pressure out of the process. The City of Preston has seen major investment from law firms over the last 12 months, resulting in Preston now boasting some of the leading law firms in the North West region. The Preston city status has been a major turning point, thus encouraging many lawyers to relocate to the City.”
Concluding the theory behind the success of Clayton Legal, Lynn summarised, “Our philosophy is, we strive to find the right people, for the right job, at the right time. Our growth plan is strong and having just secured key personnel on board for this coming year, 2008 is proving to be a fantastic year for Clayton legal”.
Clayton Legal is confident that the data collected by the survey is accurate but the trends shown may not apply to firms on an individual level. All data and conclusions are for guidance only. For individual research focusing on specific aspects of the survey, please contact Lynn Sedgwick at Clayton Legal.
To receive a free salary survey, please contact Lynn Sedgwick,
Managing Director of Clayton Legal at: ls@clayton-legal.co.uk
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