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Our discipline and location-specific teams live and breathe their respective markets. Whether you're a trainee solicitor, paralegal or partner, BCL Legal helps to clarify and manage your job seeking requirements and career ambitions. We'll find you what you're looking for.

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Effective hiring goes far beyond filling a job role. Successful recruiting puts its emphasis on people, quality and speed. We operate with unrivalled insight through our discipline and location-specific teams and using integrated technology, we match the right people to your business.

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Our average Candidate Net Promoter Score (NPS) is 82

90% of lawyers who move are registered with BCL

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Thank you for working so hard in getting me this position. You both spent so much time and put in much effort in arranging interviews, even working late into the evening. 
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Family Solicitor, Regional Firm in Worcestershire
I have found BCL Legal is always willing to give realistic appraisals, work hard to find the right candidates and clearly take the time to get to know the people that they work with.
Tina Woods
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BCL are the first people I contact. They listen to our requirements, understand the role and requirements perfectly, and will only put forward those candidates whom they consider to be most suited to and interested in the role.
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Leeds

Join us for Jonathan Davey's annual Contract Update Event where he will be looking at key cases from the past 12-18 months, drawing out drafting and practical points with the aim of leaving everyone with something to take back to their desks and use in practice.

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Reading

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