Legal Jobs and Recruitment Consultants

The Law Society Gazette offers the latest legal jobs for solicitors including jobs in private practice, in house, legal HR, legal IT and legal secretaries. There are typically well over 1,000 jobs advertised online at any time. You can search by position, practice area, location, PQE and by the particular consultant providing the service. You can set up an email enquiry so that any new jobs are sent to you automatically.

Legal Week Jobs is a legal recruitment website provided by journal Legal Week covering a wide range of legal jobs within the profession. It delivers legal jobs for private practice, in-house and commercial sectors including lawyer, assistant solicitor, paralegal, legal secretarial, business development, marketing, executive & support jobs from legal recruitment consultants, companies and law firms.

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3rdSix.co.uk is a recruitment site for Chambers and newly qualified Barristers who have not secured a tenancy. Each year 1500 students undertake the bar vocational course but there are only 1,000 pupillages offered by chambers per year and only 500 new tenancies. The site was developed to address the difficulties in recruiting 3rd six pupils / squatters, given that traditional recruitment methods are very expensive and more often than not, unsuccessful primarily due to accessing target audiences.

Abacus Professional Recruitment is a Belfast consultancy specialising in the placement of legal candidates, from paralegals to partners. Offering no-obligation advice to candidates seeking to enter the N.I. market, including extensive knowledge of the local sector – the firms and the personalities, current and predicted market-trends and recent salary surveys. The company has also assisted with roles in Ireland, London and Middle East. The main objective of the site is to introduce job and career enhancing opportunities to individuals and confidentially promotes individual jobseekers to prospect companies.

Amelia Bond Search & Selection Ltd is a independent consultancy based in Birmingham providing recruitment services for legal people nationwide. The firm adopts a friendly, open and honest approach and will do everything to match the right person with the right job.

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Badenoch & Clark specialise in accountancy & finance, financial services, HR, insurance, interim management, IT, legal, marketing, public sector and not-for-profit recruitment nationwide. They provide permanent, temporary, contract and search recruitment services for qualified and non-qualified lawyers, contracts managers and company secretaries. Several offices enable the company to provide comprehensive nationwide coverage of all markets including Private Practice, Commerce & Industry, Financial Services and the Public Sector.

Bailey Hunter work with law firms of all sizes as well as in-house legal departments handling the full spectrum of legal vacancies on a permanent and contract/locum basis. They have a proven track record of success to include; Partners, Associate Solicitors, Assistant Solicitors, Legal Executives, Paralegals, Legal Cashiers, Law Cost Draftspersons, Legal Secretaries/Receptionists, Marketing Managers and IT Managers. They cover UK wide opportunities with a particular emphasis in the North of England.

Balance Recruitment is a specialist financial recruitment consultancy, specialising in the Legal Accounts and Finance Systems market in London. They are first tier suppliers to a wide number of UK and US Law Firms based in London, and are often instructed to recruit for vacancies on exclusive, sole-supplier agreements.

BCL Legal is the alliance of three key legal recruiters in the North West providing consultative, professional and objective advice for partners and assistants. The firm offers a comprehensive legal recruitment service for lawyers, law firms and businesses at all levels, across all disciplines and across all sectors. They can assist with Private Practice Legal Recruitment, In-house Legal Recruitment and Public Sector.

BLD (Black Lawyers Directory) have extensive job opportunities on their site. There are many jobs for job seekers, and the site can also be used for employers serious about an all-inclusive recruitment.

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Careerjet is an employment search engine which brings back jobs from across the world (you specify "legal" and you can also specify the region you want). Based in Australia it is particularly good for Australian jobs.

Career Legal Professional was established in 1991. It is an independent recruitment consultancy situated the heart of the City of London providing specialist recruitment services to the legal sector, ranging from secretarial to legal professionals.

Cavendish Boyle works mainly in the North of England, the Midlands, and East Anglia and offers a highly personalised and responsive level of service to both clients and candidates.

Central Employment Agency is an independent recruitment agency based in Newcastle upon Tyne with 28 years experience in the industry. They work particularly with firms in the local area covering vacancies including Solicitors, Paralegals, Legal Executives & Legal Support.

Chadwick Nott is a specialist legal recruitment consultancy covering the whole of England and Wales from offices in London and Bristol. They were founded in 1992 and have grown steadily since then by concentrating on providing a personal and tailor-made service to lawyers. All consultants are legally qualified. There is an advertised selection service to recruit top lawyers and also an extensive database of candidates and contacts.

Chambers and Partners Recruitment Consultancy have over 450 live vacancies available at any time. You can search by specialisation and location, set up your cv online and receive automatic job updates. Chambers and Partners produce one of the key directories and guides to the legal profession, both in the UK and worldwide, and so are very well connected amongst law firms.

Chambers People is a consultancy and staff recruitment service for barristers chambers and law firms right across England and Wales. They provide staff recruitment at all levels of clerking and non-clerking posts, and they provide a full range of training sessions for staff in chambers. They also provide help to chambers on Bar Mark accreditation services, Business Development work, Market Research, and Freelance Clerking including fee collection. The company director is an experienced former Senior Clerk and Chambers Director - Martin Poulter.

ChanceryLane.co.uk is a legal job board specialising in solicitor and fee earner job vacancies across the UK and offshore, with international jobs regularly appearing for Commonwealth and Middle East countries. Broadbean integrated with low charges.

Church International provides recuitment of IT professionals with legal backgrounds - all technologies across all levels of seniority.

Cogence Search is a specialist legal recruitment service delivered in a consultative, knowledge-based and ethical manner. Jobs at all degrees of seniority are covered, from newly-qualified lawyers to partner level, on a permanent assignment basis.

Crime Solicitor Recruitment is part of the Ten-Percent Group and specialises in crime solicitor recruitment across the UK, working with many law firms large and small, placing Duty Solicitors (freelance and salaried), Higher Court Advocates, Police Station Accredited Representatives, solicitors and paralegals. Run by a former crime solicitor.

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Douglas Scott successfully recruits Fee Earners & Support Staff throughout the North West, North East, Yorkshire & the Midlands. They also work with established clients on a number of legal recruitment projects in the South East and South West of England. The recruitment team is a tried and tested blend of legal experience complimented by recruiter savvy. They have Legal Fee Earners & Support Staff as well as experienced Recruitment Consultants.

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EastMidlandsLegal.co.uk are specialist legal recruitment consultants for lawyers and legal staff in the East Midlands, including Nottingham, Leicester, Derby and Northampton. Part of the Ten-Percent Group.

Edge Allen Legal Recruitment provides a specialist recruitment service for lawyers looking to make a move in private practice. Their candidates include law firm Partners and ambitious Associates looking for the step up to Partnership. Their clients include firms of all sizes, from small niche firms to the Magic Circle and US firms based in London. They also advise on Team moves and Law Firm Mergers.

EJ Group (Legal Section) was established in 1992 by Simon Eagan and Simon Janion who had worked together in a central London legal recruitment company for four years prior to setting up their own company.

Elliot Marsh are based in Altrincham, Cheshire. They offer a full range of search and selection solutions for jobs in a number of sectors, including the legal sector. Their services are supplemented by other added value services such as psychometric instruments used to assess personality, motivation and job compatibility.

EM Legal are a leading legal recruitment firm based in Altrincham, Cheshire, specialising in legal recruitment throughout the North West, Yorkshire and the North East. With over twenty years of industry know-how, EM Legal's experienced team of specialist legal recruitment consultants have worked directly with some of the UK's leading law firms and businesses on a national and regional level providing both permanent and temporary legal staff ranging from paralegal and legal executives to solicitors and partners.

ERS Legal - Executive Recruitment Services - is one of the top 100 recruitment agencies in the UK, working across a number of professional sectors as well as the law.

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Future Legal Recruitment, based in Manchester is a specialist legal recruitment agency headed by David Artingstall (former senior partner at Fentons Solicitors in Manchester). It offers a bespoke and personal service to the legal community throughout Greater Manchester, Liverpool and Merseyside and the wider North West.

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Garfield Robbins operates in the UK and internationally. You can browse the jobs under different categories of legal specialisation. The partners and consultants are all qualified lawyers.

Garrett McCarroll Knowles (gmk) is a legal recruitment company specialising in the placement of lawyers at all levels, from newly qualified to partner, predominantly in private practice. Founded in 1998, they place lawyers in London and the South East, as well as other major cities in the UK, Europe and the Middle East. They also cover the entire Asian market through Law Alliance, an associate office in Hong Kong.

Get Paralegal Jobs - a USA company but it has the UK listed as a possible search term!

G2legal is a high-tech legal recruitment firm with offices in 7 locations including Manchester, Edinburgh and Brighton. Clients range from Magic Circle and US law firms to major regional firms and high street practices. They have also placed a significant number of lawyers from abroad into UK Law firms. There are typically around 1,750 current jobs on the site, at all levels. There is a separate site for Scotland here with a further 250 jobs.

Grist Legal Recruitment was established in 2002, specialising in the placement of qualified Solicitors, up to and including Partners, Legal Executives, Paralegals, Legal Secretaries and support staff. Their Consultants' legal background equips them to provide clients with an informed judgement on appropriate candidates.

GR Law is a specialist legal recruitment consultancy with offices in London and Sydney. They offer legal recruitment and jobs for lawyers, paralegals, legal secretaries and other legal support staff for law firms and in-house legal departments.

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homecountieslegal.co.uk is a specialist web-based recruiter dealing with solicitors and legal executives in the greater London and Home Counties areas.

Hudson is a global recruitment consultancy. The Legal sector group is headquartered in London and there are also branches in Leeds, Birmingham and Manchester which enables the firm to provide a national approach to legal recruitment. They also recruit specialists in all the key disciplines required to successfully manage a law firm including IT, Marketing, HR and Finance.

Hughes Castell is a major legal recruiter in the commercial law area, both in the UK and Internationally. They work only in the legal field thus providing total specialisation and knowledge. You can search for vacancies on the site.

Hunter Solutions is a specialist consultancy in the legal IT, banking and finance recruitment, fulfilling a broad range of permanent, contract and temporary placements within London and throughout the UK. They also undertake search and selection assignments.

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Independent Appointments Ltd is a Recruitment Agency with a substantial legal section covering both lawyers' jobs and support jobs within the legal sector.

Institute of Legal Finance and Management (ILFM) has an on-line classified section where the latest vacancies can be viewed by members.

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Jobserve provides an online searchable database of legal jobs including many provided by other Recruitment Agencies. They provide job seekers with a list of all new jobs matching their requirements each day. The service, which has already been running for 6 years, is free to job seekers. There are typically 1,400 legal jobs on the site at any one time.

Jobs For Lawyers UK offers jobs under various work type descriptions, which can be searched on the site. This site is free to job seekers and does not require you to register - you can just browse and reply direct to the advertiser. There is also a section (not yet large) on trainee and pupil opportunities. Lawyers looking for jobs can advertise for free.

Jobsearch is a generalist jobsite with job vacancies across all sectors, job types and at all levels. Legal jobs are included and it is probably particularly good at finding jobs within legal firms which are not necessarily jobs for lawyers.

jonathanfagan.co.uk is part of the Ten-Percent group and specialises in Commercial and In House Lawyer, Managerial, Finance and Support Staff Legal Job Vacancies in the UK, Europe and Offshore.

Judicial Review - "The South’s Legal Recruitment Specialist" - Recruits Solicitors, Legal Executives, Paralegals and Legal Secretaries for both private practice and in-house positions. The team have developed long-term relationships with practices across the South and therefore have a thorough knowledge of the latest vacancies, enabling them to provide a high quality, professional and discrete recruitment process to all our candidates.

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Kinney Recruiting is a legal recruitment agency with a worldwide presence. They specialise in the permanent placement of experienced, qualified lawyers in law firms and in-house companies both in the UK and the rest of the world. The site contains job listings and up-to-the-minute legal headlines.

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Laurence Simons is a leading international legal recruitment consultancy. They act for Law Firms, Corporations and Financial Institutions across the UK and Ireland, Mainland Europe, Middle East, Asia Pacific, The Caribbean and Bermuda. Their head office is in London, while in the last few months they have opened offices in Dublin and Amsterdam

Law Consultants is a niche recruitment agency committed solely to the Legal Profession. They are based in Cambridge and have been established for over 22 years. Barry Smith and Debra Tofts have been with the firm more or less from the outset. They provide permanent and locum lawyers Nationwide.

Law Jobs Uk allows job searchers to search online (no registration is required) and recruiters to post jobs and receive CVs from candidates looking for work. The company is based just outside of Cambridge. The company also sends out a magazine to over 12,000 candidates, 8,000 Law firms and 600 local authorities every 2 weeks.

Law Staff Online (LSO) is the first commission-free recruitment service and the only online recruitment service that sources all its candidates from a traditional agency. It works with a monthly fee rather than a commission so the firm can use the service as much as it likes without additional costs.

Legal Aid Practitioners Group represents over 800 firms of High Street Solicitors, committed to legal aid work. There is news on legal aid developments and information on lobbying, meetings and events. There is also a comprehensive programme of reasonably priced CPD courses offered and a fast expanding series of job vacancies.

Legal Jobs Board is a leading online employment and career site for legal professionals and those looking to work within law. The site provides candidates with information on vacancies for lawyers, solicitors, paralegals and legal secretaries. It also has a legal graduate area published in conjuction with the law school of wolverhampton.

Legal Prospects is a leading Legal job board, owned by the Daily Mail. The site has been in existence of over 3 years and all major legal recruiters use it to advertise their vacancies, including newly qualified and graduate roles. There are thousands of legal jobs covered at any time from firms and recruiters nationwide. You can browse jobs according to type, e.g. Lawyer, Solicitor, Paralegal, Legal Executive, Legal Secretary and general legal support roles.

legal23 is a law firm focused consultancy providing permanent legal recruitment solutions in England & Wales. Staffed by people who are legally educated and have private practice experience, legal23 provides a first rate service to clients and candidates. They provide a personal touch and have an extensive range of top tier and international law firm clients.

legal-executive-recruitement.com provides jobs and job searches for legal executives. It is run in association with the Institute of Legal Executives.

legalrecruitment.net is a dynamic recruitment consultancy specialising in legal recruitment. They offer expertise in sourcing the best available private practice and in-house positions (both within the UK and internationally). Their mission statement is not to become the biggest legal recruitment consultancy, but to become the most sought after, the most respected and the most influential provider in the legal recruitment arena.

Legalsecretary.co.uk has been designed by industry experts specifically for legal secretaries. They have over seven years experience in providing consultancy services to the legal profession as well as personal experience in all aspects of legal secretarial and support functions.

legalsupportnetwork.co.uk provides services and business tools to professional staff working in finance, finance systems & costs within the Legal industry throughout the UK. They aim to promote the interests of professionals working within these niche areas by providing up-to-date, quality information and advice to Employers and Employees. There is news, information on events and various online tools (including a VAT Number Validation Service). There is a Recruitment Section on the site relating to accounts, finance and management jobs in the legal area.

Lipson Lloyd-Jones (LL-J) was established in 1987 by Simon Lipson, a solicitor with 7 years' experience in both private practice and industry, and Marian Lloyd-Jones, a highly respected recruitment professional. They have premises in the City and Manchester and they provide comprehensive coverage of the legal market place, with both private practice and in-house vacancies throughout England. They also work within an international network to access vacancies in the Far East, Australasia, USA and Europe.

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Maine-Tucker Recruitment was established in 1987 to specialise in recruiting secretarial and administrative support staff into companies based mainly in the West End and City of London. MTR Legal is the Legal Secretarial and Support Staff arm of the company, providing a fully comprehensive recruitment service to legal Clients ranging from the top ten Legal 500 through to specialist Sole Practitioners and in-house legal departments in commerce and the Public Sector. The company is particularly good for legal secretaries.

McKenzie Douglas specialise in legal jobs in commerce and industry. Based in the North West and the Midlands, with associate offices in the South of England, they place candidates across the UK and Internationally.

Michael Page is a major recruiter of legal professionals, with a national network of 7 offices throughout the UK and providing comprehensive coverage of the legal recruitment market. There are over 2,000 legal positions on-line.

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Newly Qualified Solicitor Jobs is a specialist website giving careers advice to newly qualified solicitors including application tips, latest job vacancies and general job hunting advice for junior solicitors. The site was created, and is maintained by, an ex-lawyer who has become acutely aware of the problems faced by many young lawyers at the start of their careers. There is a lot of useful information here about that vital first job.

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Professionals In Law works as a marketplace in which firms can find new talent and talent can find new firms. They are keen on promoting the legal sector as a whole, to help attract great people from other areas who otherwise wouldn’t consider moving into the profession. They do not allow agencies to advertise with them without naming their clients. They allow firms to build micro-sites explaining their culture and recruitment needs at length, so candidates can find out a lot more about what’s on offer before they get in touch.

Pure Recruitment Group provides recruitment services in taxation, legal, finance, treasury and banking. Based in London and Leeds, the company specialises in key business centres throughout the world. They have succesfully developed high-level relationships with some of the world’s major law firms, corporations and banks and have a track record of professional, confidential dealings with both candidates and clients alike

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RCC Legal is a recruitment business focused exclusively on the legal sector and offering an uncomplicated and efficient service to recruit and place the most suitable legal professionals. They operate from their Cambridgeshire offices, and with over 40 years experience in Legal Recruitment they offer an effective blend of legal and recruitment expertise. There are typically around 200 jobs on the site, all described in some detail, and applicants can also register their details so they can be contacted when a suitable vacancy arises.

reed.co.uk is one of the UKs largest recruitment websites. There are currently over 1,700 legal vacancies advertised online by over 390 recruiters. The job seeker can register to receive jobs that match specified criteria via email or text message.

Re Legal are specialist legal recruitment consultants operating in the regional centres of Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham and Liverpool. As well as extensive legal recruitment experience, consultants have practised as lawyers in Private Practice and Commerce & Industry, including at partner level. They place particular emphasis on providing a highly responsive, discreet and personal service. They are able to advise on Private Practice and Commerce & Industry and deal with law firms, commercial clients, lawyers and solicitors of all levels across all disciplines and including in house legal jobs.

RFC Recruitment Group specialises in the recruitment of professional and management level personnel throughout Ireland. There is a good-sized section of legal jobs. There are no charges for job-seekers and various free services are provided to them like automatic notification by email of new jobs.

RS Legal Recruitment specialises in working with both candidates and clients nationwide and are based in central England. For clients, recruitment solutions are available to both private practice law firms and in-house companies. For candidates, looking for an opportunity in private practice or an in-house role, the company can offer excellent opportunities at some of the best firms and companies in the country.

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Sacco Mann was established in 1997 and is now one of the most respected names in Legal and IP Recruitment, across the regions. Their founders' vision is one of a comprehensive Legal and IP Recruitment service which is powered by its people and its unique principles. Its intention is to provide everyone with a tailor made career service of the highest quality.

Sean Smith & Associates are legal recruitment consultants based in London, placing Solicitors & Paralegals within Civil, Criminal and Commercial legal jobs across the whole of England & Wales. They are also accredited providers of diversity recruitment and training services. The company was co-founded by Sean Smith and 2012 LOCOG Ambassador Gareth Thomas.

Sellick Partnership specialises in placing legal professionals into a range of disciplines covering a variety of roles from partners and solicitors to paralegals and assistants. They cover the South East, South West, East Anglia, North West and the Midlands from their Head Office in Manchester; and the Yorkshire, North East and Lincolnshire areas from their Leeds office. Consultants hold regular open days, interview sessions, career clinics and weekly meetings with both new and existing clients across the country.

Simply Law Jobs is a well established legal jobs board. All levels of the legal profession are covered throughout the UK with law jobs from leading law recruitment companies, law firms and direct employers. The following types of jobs are covered: Legal Executive, Paralegal, Solicitor, Partner, Practice Manager, Legal Accounts, Legal Secretary/PA, Legal Support roles and Law Associates.

Swiftwork is a site for professional people who choose to work flexibly. There is a legal section with part time jobs, short term contracts and work that can be undertaken from home.

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TARGETjobsLaw.co.uk is used by solicitors' firms to advertise their training contracts and vacations schemes, and barristers' chambers to promote their mini-pupillages and pupillages. The site also provides useful advice for law and non-law graduates on securing a job in the legal sector and the skills necessary to make a good lawyer, alongside graduate profiles, overviews of practice areas and legal news. TARGETjobsLaw.co.uk is part of targetjobs.co.uk, the UK's largest source of graduate jobs, work experience and advice.

Taylor Root are a global legal recruitment company with substantial experience of successfully recruiting lawyers around the world. They have offices in London, Leeds, Hong Kong and Sydney. The Consultants are all qualified lawyers, solicitors and barristers qualified in either the UK or Australia

Ten Percent Legal Recruitment is the UK's first integrated Legal Recruitment Agency, Legal Jobs Board and CV Database, with membership costing just £60 a month. The company handles legal jobs for solicitors, lawyers, legal executives, legal cashiers and fee earners across the UK and Particular niche at dealing with smaller to medium sized Legal 500 firms. Since April 2000 the company has donated 10% of annual profits to charity via the Ten-Percent Foundation, hence the name. The site also offers extensive paid and free legal careers services and advice for lawyers and law students with over 200 pages of information.

The Law Pages is a legal resources site that provides a number of services and facilities for legal professionals, students as well as the general public. It encompasses legal recruitment with a directory for those wishing to locate a service including listings of Solicitors, Barristers their firms and chambers. Where a member of the directory has acted in a criminal case listed in our unique sentence tool they are linked.

Thomas Telman Consulting is a specialist shipping legal recruitment and head hunting consultancy for legal professionals. The site provides information on the jobs market, access to current jobs, articles and tips. Employers can register their vacancies and also receive advice on finding the right person for the particular job in hand.

Total Jobs is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Reed Elsevier Group. It is a large site covering many disciplines (commercial and professional) including legal. The site typically carries over 150,000 live vacancies at any one time with (currently) over 6,000 legal jobs. You can upload your cv and apply for multiple jobs with little effort. The site is linked with similar sites in other countries.

totallylegal has over 2,000 UK and overseas private practice and in-house vacancies. Candidates can apply to either firms' or recruitment agencies' opportunities and there is the facility to browse firms' profile pages and link directly to firms' websites. Candidates can also select their own experience and area of interest and have new jobs that match their criteria e-mailed to them as and when they come on to the site. No registration is required.

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West Associates is a specialist consultancy providing bespoke recruitment solutions to the legal profession. They specialise in the placement of legal professionals in Private Practice and In-House, from Assistant to Partner and General Counsel level, across all market sectors in the UK.

WNT Legal delivers effective recruitment and outsourcing solutions. They recruit a wide variety of types of legal jobs from Receptionists to Lawyer to suit their clients’ needs, at very reasonable rates. They also provide clerks.

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yorkshire-legal-recruitment.co.uk is a specialist web-based legal recruiter handling solicitors, legal executives and legal support staff recruitment in Yorkshire. Handles assignments for both in house departments and law firms.

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