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Principal Consultant - Family, Yorkshire
Lucy is a Principal Consultant at Realm and specialises in the recruitment of family lawyers in Yorkshire.
She joined Realm as a Junior Consultant in August 2019 after spending two years as a recruitment coordinator in an internal recruitment team for a finance company. Since then, Lucy has built a fantastic reputation within the Yorkshire family law market and has progressed to the position of Senior Consultant.
Lucy is shortlisted for the award for Recruitment/Talent Professional of the Year at the 2024 Made in Manchester Awards.
Lucy was wonderful! Really listened to what I wanted, but also helped me move out of a comfort zone I didn’t know I had, to make sure she could match me with an ideal employer! She was so friendly and helpful throughout, not just as a recruiter but as someone to listen as well. Thank you for all your help!
Rebecca Vine
Family Solicitor
Skilfully, professionally and sensitively Lucy worked with our law firm to hire a fantastic candidate, ensuring that both the lawyer and the law firm understood each other. Just imagine what the world would be like if every person was in the right job. In family law, that’s Lucy’s goal.
Andrew Gray
Founder of Truth Legal
Lucy was fabulous throughout the process; clear and calm in her communications, positive and reassuring. She was proactive when called upon to be so, but also patient when patience was needed. I have recommended Lucy to friends already and will certainly do so again. Thanks for everything Lucy!
Neil Dring
Senior Family Solicitor & Consultant
Each time we have provided Lucy with a candidate brief, we have been provided with high-level consultancy support. Lucy is very diligent and detail-focused on the requirements of our candidate brief - and critically - delivers results. It is refreshing to work with a "commercially aware" recruitment consultant who truly understands our business. We look forward to Lucy assisting our business with our growth road plan.
Amandeep Kooner
Managing Director at Austin Kemp
Lucy has been absolutely amazing throughout the recruitment process. Her professional approach and ingenuity helped me start a new chapter in my career. She was very dedicated, proactive and kept me informed during the whole process. I could not recommend Lucy enough to anyone who considers a change in their career.
Katarzyna Zatorski
Head of Family
I have been in touch with Lucy for several years and she has recently helped me find my latest role. My favourite thing about working with Lucy is that there is never any pressure to move forward with a role if it’s not right. She will always be happy to discuss the market in general, and will always give honest advice on whether she feels a role is right for me or not. It is clear Lucy doesn’t simply want to place people for the sake of it and wants to make sure candidates are as happy as the hiring firm. Lucy really knows the market which has helped me find a role which is perfect for me and I don’t think I would have likely found it without her help. Hopefully I won’t be searching again for a while but I look forward to continuing to work with Lucy generally in respect of the career and salary advice she offers. I would highly recommend anyone in the family market to get in touch with Lucy when looking for a new role.
Family Solicitor
Family Solicitor
I think the three words lawyers would use to describe me are approachable, reassuring and positive. These are actually words that I’ve taken from my previous recommendations.
A great result I have got for a law firm is placing a senior solicitor to start up a brand-new Harrogate office for a Legal 500 firm to help with their growth plans.
I enjoy working for Realm because we’ve got a really lovely, supportive team. Realm allows you to specialise in your own area, which is family law in Yorkshire for myself. I love working a four-day week alongside being able to have flexible working hours and the fact that Realm really helps you grow and develop in your career is amazing as well.
I think the advice that I would give to law firms if they’re looking to recruit is to make sure you have a solid interview process in place. If you’re making a senior hire, I wouldn’t have any more than a three-stage interview process.
The advice I would give to a lawyer who is wanting to move is really make sure and understand what your top five priorities are and then that way when you are looking at firms to move to you can find firms that do tick all those boxes. For example, some of those priorities could be salary, work, life balance or flexible working.
