Private client job boom

Hiring within the legal sector has grown exponentially since January with private practice vacancies already at 60 per cent of last year’s total, the Association of Professional Staffing Companies revealed. It said data from labour market analytics from Vacancysoft showed that vacancies for private client lawyers in April were up by more than 750 per cent on April 2020. According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), UK legal total revenues increased by almost a fifth between March 2020 and March 2021.