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At Taylor Rose, we actively seek experienced solicitors and lawyers who want to advance their careers but also benefit from the freedom of being self-employed. As a consultant, you choose when you work, and define your earning potential.
Our consultants are paid based directly on their monthly billing, and your fee shares can rise up to 75/25.
Successful candidates will receive guidance and support throughout the transition onto the consultancy model. They will also get an induction into the firm and have a dedicated consultant liaison team to act as continued operational support.
Work-life balance: you decide when you work, and where you work from.
Cross-referral Networking: we introduce clients to the best lawyer available for the job, regardless of their employed or consultant status.
Buddy System: our dedicated team manage your operational association with Taylor Rose and ensure that holiday cover is arranged via our ‘buddy’ system.
Support Functions: access our innovative, modern systems and support functions. Including from our Marketing and Legal Support Operations (LSO) team to ensure your time is spent where it most matters.
To find out more and to speak to us confidentially, get in touch.
Our requirements for joining are:
• You are a qualified Solicitor, Legal Executive or qualified licensed conveyancer, fellow of CILEx or CLC;
• Who has a minimum of 4 years PQE; and
• You must have a strong client following or good client contacts.
If you don’t quite meet the criteria, then our fee earning consultant programme may be more suited to you.
There are also many exciting options for newly qualified and unqualified legal professionals or fee earners within Taylor Rose. Working with the support of one of our established consultants, or directly through the firm, you can still enjoy the benefits offered by the programme.
Why not contact us now so we can discuss your available options
• No start-up or administration fees.
• Grade A PII with cover up to £20 million.
• Industry leading CMS, jointly developed with Thomson Reuters and appropriate training.
• PLC and Westlaw.
• File Opening Support
• Microsoft Office for Business 365.
• Citrix remote access with integrated Mimecast and active Tessian security and mail protection.
• Guided IT system set up, data connectivity and ongoing office hours support.
• Telephone calls and recording through app and call handling facilities across extended hours.
• Marketing communications advice.
• Client portal with integrated ID checking, payments and e-sign client care letters.
• Centralised digital mailroom with opening and scanning to CMS/ email services.
• Centralised secure archiving, will and deeds storage.
• Immediate access to our lender panels.
• Fee split on search revenues, creating additional profit on property searches.
• Stationery, including business cards and letterheads.
• Your own professional profile on our website.
• Dedicated consultant concierge team and technical head for operational and legal support.
• Billing and development training from a leading industry expert.
• Ongoing business support, compliance support and auditing.
• Immediate access to our Lexcel, Law Society CQS, ISO 27001:2013 and ISO 9001:2015 accreditations.
Many Solicitors are interested in becoming a Consultant Solicitor with almost all of them asking similar questions; with this in mind below is a list of frequently asked questions and answers.
If you are thinking about becoming a Consultant Solicitor, please get in touch with our Consultant Recruitment Team by email or phone 020 3551 8100.
Only you will be able to answer this. Being a Consultant Solicitor is a very different way of working when compared to a typically employed role. Many Consultants flourish and very often double (sometimes tripling) their earnings, along with having a far better work-life balance. Although minimal, some consultants struggle too, especially if they have been used to their firms feeding their clients to them.
Start by asking whether you have a following of clients or whether you are confident in your ability to obtain new clients. This will be the main hurdle you face. If you can overcome this there are so many advantages to being a consultant, including the flexibility to come and go as you choose, work from home, avoid rush hour traffic, to be there for your children as they return from school, and so on, the list is endless.
It is also great for a Consultant solicitor to build clients for themselves knowing that if they leave, they are not bound by the usual restrictive covenants attached to conventional employment.
We only have Consultant relationships with those who are Legally qualified as a Solicitor/Legal Executive or a qualified Licensed Conveyancer and those who can demonstrate plenty of experience and a good track record in their chosen practice area.
If you do not quite reach this threshold please still free to make contact with us as there may be an opportunity for you to work with an existing consultant where they can be responsible for your supervision and will also be able to help you develop your training.
It is fairly simple; we are after good quality lawyers with good quality clients. If you can bring this to the firm, we can offer you great back-office support to enable you to manage and service your clients effectively.
Client care is everything to Taylor Rose. Customer feedback and internal audit scores are monitored carefully for both employees and Consultants within the firm.
Some of our best consultants are the ones seeking that work-life balance, to work fewer hours, but to earn a bit more money.
At Taylor Rose our fee split starts at 70%, can rise to 75%, depending on your levels of billing.
As a solicitor, if you consider your current billing when compared to your current wages you will see with your scope for substantially increasing your earnings.
We support back-office functions including:
The answer to this is both yes and no. As a firm we don’t like to set these targets to avoid influencing any negative client care, however, to manage our Consultant's expectations a certain level of billing does need to be put through the firm to ensure this remains sustainable for all of us. To explain a little further support staff, licences, systems (all with significant cost) and processes are all based on the number of staff/consultants, and assumptions on generated revenue coming in from each consultant, this is all factored into the business model you choose.
Yes through our approved person process.
It is for you to make this decision but we are very confident in our offering when compared to other firms, for example, Keystone Law. We are a top 60 law firm with a growing number of offices across England, including one premium central London office. We are well accredited with an excellent track record.
We are aware that many other firms are looking for consultants, but it is essential to assess what they are offering, including the quality and access of the back-office support. We are more than happy to go in to further detail should you be interested in taking a consultancy role forward with the firm. We would also recommend talking to some of our existing Consultants for more information.
Absolutely. We are happy to arrange this for you, it is the best way to get a feel for Consultancy generally and the firm.
Many of our Consultants have worked in this capacity for other firms as well as Taylor Rose so they are well placed to let you know how we compare with other firms.
The answer is officially no, but in reality, we always try to pass work back to the Consultants. One of our USPs is that we are not solely a virtual law firm which means the firm has regular referrals of work instead of just the individual consultants.
You are self-employed so if you struggle to locate work or do not have a following this could be problematic for you. However, the average employee earns only 30%-40% of their annual billing so the chances are you won't have to be as busy to earn above your current salary.
Also, be conscious that you are not an employee so you will not get paid when you are on annual leave.
The Contract between us is fairly detailed but fair. If you hand your notice in, our Consultant Concierge Team will work with you to ensure your files are properly wrapped up or transferred internally or to your new firm.
If you bring any clients and referrers to the firm they are of course yours to take away, subject to the client's consent. Likewise, if we pass you any clients, these will of course remain with the firm.
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Call on 020 3551 8100 or email us to arrange a meeting or a telephone catch up at a time convenient to you. During this call, we can tell you a little more about the firm and our due diligence process.
The first step to your consultant journey with Taylor rose is just a contact form or phone call away.
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Get in touch with our Consultant Service team by emailing consultantrecruitment@taylor-rose.co.uk
