Housing Disrepair Solicitor
£45,000 – £58,000
Established claimant team handling a growing disrepair caseload, with genuine hybrid flexibility and a clear route to senior fee-earner.
Specialist Legal Recruitment · UK
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Solicitors, fee-earners and legal support staff, placed by someone who reads the brief properly.
17yrsSpecialist recruitment experience
1:1Direct instruction, no account layers
Perm + ContractPermanent, contract and interim cover
Legal markets we cover.
A deliberately narrow focus. Six markets we work consistently, rather than twenty we’d claim on a capability slide.
Separate discipline — technology, not practice
Case Management Systems
Visualfiles and Proclaim developers, configuration analysts, trainers and rollout specialists. A technology niche rather than a practice area, and a small enough talent pool that most firms struggle to hire into it directly.
Live roles.
A sample of what’s open now. Not everything we’re working is advertised.
Visualfiles Developer
£50,000 – £65,000
Global legal firm building out its in-house development capability. Fully remote, working on workflow design and integration across multiple practice groups.
Proclaim Developer
£42,000 – £55,000
Hybrid role supporting and extending an established Proclaim environment — screen and workflow development, reporting, and change requests from the fee-earning teams.
Case Management System Trainer
£280 – £340 per day
Six-month engagement supporting a firm-wide system rollout, delivering training and floor-walking support.
Most briefs don’t fail on sourcing. They fail on the brief.
A PQE bracket, a market, a case management system and a postcode that together describe about four people nationally. We’ll tell you that before you lose a quarter finding out.
SEND US A BRIEFFor firms instructing us
How we work a brief.
No panel management, no junior handoffs. One point of contact from brief to placement.
SITUATION — Growing caseload
Permanent Search
Qualified solicitors and case handlers matched against your actual caseload and systems, not a generic PQE bracket.
SITUATION — Backlog or cover
Contract & Interim
Fee-earner, costs and technical cover for holiday periods, backlog clearance and system migrations.
SITUATION — System change
Systems & Migration
Configuration, training and rollout support when you’re changing platform — a small market we know well.
A Standard 8 Recruitment Ltd practice.
Douglas Wren is the legal recruitment arm of Standard 8 Recruitment — built on the same direct, evidence-led model, applied across litigation, housing disrepair, PI and family law, costs, and legal case management systems.
Over 17 years of specialist recruitment experience sits behind every brief. You get that experience directly, not a graduate working from a script.
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Before you instruct.
Occasionally, where it’s adjacent and we can do a genuine job. If we can’t, we’ll say so rather than take the instruction and hope.
Yes. Most instructions start as one critical hire rather than a retained panel arrangement, and that suits how we work.
We come back with an honest read on the market first — salary, availability, and whether the brief as written is fillable — before we start searching. If it needs adjusting, we’ll say so.
Need to fill a seat?
Tell us the brief. We’ll come back with an honest read on the market before we do anything else — including telling you if it isn’t fillable as written.
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