Private Practice - North Yest & Yorkshire

Recruiting across the North West and Yorkshire 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.

Ryan McNamara

Head of North West & Yorkshire
0161 233 6360

ryan.mcnamara@douglas-scott.co.uk

Ryan joined Douglas Scott in 2018 having previously worked as a Sales Operations Manager. He specialises in Private Practice recruitment in the North West and recruits from Legal Assistant level up to Partnership level, and works with a range of small regional practices, boutique firms and larger national and international practices. Ryan works with well-established departments as well as with firms which are keen to diversify into new areas of law.

"Ryan was obviously very knowledgeable about the role I was looking for and secured an interview within 24 hours. He was helpful and keen I felt I was in good hands."

Solicitor | Wigan

Sam Holt

Recruitment Consultant
0161 233 6360

sam.h@douglas-scott.co.uk

What were you doing before you joined Douglas Scott Legal Recruitment?

- I was completing my masters degree in Exercise Physiology, and working full time in a call centre as a senior claims conversion handler.

What are you most looking forward to in your new role?

- I am most looking forward to helping people and connecting them with opportunities to progress within their career.

If you weren’t in recruitment what would you be doing?

- I would be pursuing being a full time Exercise Physiologist within elite sport.

Tell us something that people might not know about you?

- I have a huge fear of spiders.