Meet your team
Realm provides an incomparably specialist legal recruitment service, as each of our consultants recruits for a specific area of law. This means we can develop closer relationships with more lawyers in that field than any of our competitors. What’s more, over half of our team has a legal background, so they can really get under the skin of what makes your firm great to work for.
Duane Cormell
Director
Duane is the Co-founder and managing director of Realm. Duane co-founded Realm in 2015 with the aim of developing careers and sustainably growing law firms through a refreshing, values-driven approach to legal recruitment.
Kelly Reid
Associate Director and Team Lead of the Private Client division
Kelly is Associate Director at Realm with more than fifteen years of legal recruitment experience.
Paula Pawlowska
Associate Director and Family Team Lead
Paula is an Associate Director at Realm and leads our family team.
Joseph Shenton
Principal Consultant
At Realm, Joseph specialises in the recruitment of clinical negligence and personal injury lawyers, ranging from paralegals and fee-earners to solicitors and partners.
Rebecca Blundell
Senior Consultant
Rebecca is a Senior Consultant at Realm and specialises in the recruitment of litigation lawyers, working with lawyers and law firms across the North West, Yorkshire and the West Midlands.
Lucy Wickham
Associate Consultant - Yorkshire
Lucy is an Associate Consultant at Realm and specialises in the recruitment of family and care lawyers across Yorkshire.
Michaela Baddeley
Associate Consultant - North West
Michaela is an Associate Consultant at Realm and specialises in the recruitment of family and care lawyers across the North West.
Ben Cowlishaw
Consultant
Ben is a Consultant at Realm and works as part of our specialist property team, recruiting conveyancing lawyers across the North West.
Bill Szajna-Hopgood
Consultant
Bill is a Consultant at Realm and works as part of our private client team recruiting Private client, Court of Protection and Contentious probate lawyers across the North West and Yorkshire.
Rebecca Hopwood
Head of Support
Rebecca joined the Realm team at the start of 2017 and is the Head of Support.
Bridget Lavery
Junior Administrator
Bridget is an Administrator and an integral part of our support team. She graduated from the University of Central Lancashire with a degree in Geography and joined Realm in the Spring of 2021.
Chloe Whittaker
Junior PA
Chloe is a PA within our support team. She joined Realm in 2022 after previously working in an administrative role at the NHS.
Sarah Glynn
Head of Marketing
Sarah leads Realm’s four-strong in-house marketing team and is responsible for steering the business’s marketing strategy and bringing our best-in-class services to new regional markets.
Katherine Memery
Principal Marketing & PR Executive
Katherine is a Principal Marketing & PR Executive at Realm.
Lucy Cade
Senior Marketing Executive
Lucy is a Senior Marketing Executive at Realm. She joined us in 2021, after working in a social media and brand management role in the medical manufacturing industry.
Emma Marsh
Associate Marketing Executive
Emma is a Marketing Executive at Realm. She graduated from Durham University with a degree in Archaeology and Ancient Civilisations in 2020.
