Private Practice - Midlands & South West

Recruiting across the Midlands and South West for major law firms, covering five core verticals.

Our regional teams work consultatively with clients to ensure that the best candidates for their roles are presented in line with their requirements. Handling a full spectrum of roles across Private Practice, we can offer a complete recruitment resource from support staff through to Partner level. 

Our experienced teams provide full time solutions to somewhat challenging recruitment assignments, often with very short notice. Handling a variety of issues with high end success.


Clients:

We partner with Private Practice law firms across the United Kingdom to provide a complete, and first-class recruitment solution. With combined recruitment experience totalling over 100 years across the team, we use our knowledge to engage openly with clients and candidates alike. We are industry leaders in the three core Private Practice verticals (Private Client, Family and Conveyancing law), and our teams are market leaders in these fields.

Like all parts of our business, these established teams aim to respond to new assignment submissions in an efficient manner with an aim to understand the job brief fully and provide the best CVs to clients within an agreed, and reasonable time frame. By keeping in regular contact with our extensive and expanding database, we can maintain knowledge over the candidate journey, and be there to support them through all stages of their career.

Candidates:

Our highly skilled team of consultants offer full recruitment support across all practice areas and levels; from legal support, up to Partner level. It is our job to understand your ideal job and guide you through the process of succeeding in realising your ambition and securing that job. Be assured that from our first conversation, we have your best interests at the forefront of our mind, and will work with you, and keep you regularly updated through the process.

Our Team aim to respond to new job role submissions in an efficient and time saving manner with an aim to get CVs across within 24 hours. With a large and active database of fully pre-screened and reference checked candidates from all levels.

Chris Hodgson

Senior Recruitment Consultant
0121 272 7371

chris@douglas-scott.co.uk

With previous recruitment experience in Education and Customer Service Sectors, Chris joined Douglas Scott in early 2015. Chris works with several clients across the whole of the Midlands area and represents a range of candidates from qualified Solicitors to those with non-qualified backgrounds such as Legal Support staff. Adding another string to his bow, Chris has also studied a Professional Marketing Course. Outside of work Chris loves travelling and has participated in extreme activities such as skydives and bungee jumps in New Zealand. He has also been part of a fire show in Singapore. 

"Chris was professional, helpful, focused on ensuring you maximise job prospects and interview techniques, and maintained good lines of communication."

Personal Injury Fee-Earner | Wolverhampton

Dante Friend

Senior Recruitment Consultant
0117 284 2120

dante@douglas-scott.co.uk

Dante is a vastly experienced consultant who first joined Douglas Scott in 2011. Having spent nearly a decade covering Midlands recruitment Dante now oversees Hampshire and Dorset and other areas of the south coast and south west. Dante offers a highly professional service, tailored to suit the individual needs of all his clients and applicants and will always find the best and most suitable solution for your own personal circumstances. Dante recruits for all levels of firm  city, large regional, Legal 500 or high street.

Ben Morrey

Recruitment Consultant
0117 284 2120

ben@douglas-scott.co.uk

1. What were you doing before you joined Douglas Scott Legal Recruitment?
Before joining Douglas Scott, I was working for a Property Developer in their After Sales Customer Care Department.
 
2. What are you most looking forward to in your new role?
I am looking forward to building a new career and developing both professionally and personally.
 
3. If you weren’t in recruitment what would you be doing?
If I was not working within recruitment, I would be looking to build a career within property.
 
4. Tell us something that people might not know about you?
I am a massive Manchester United fan and enjoy going to as many home games as possible!