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
Managing Director and Co-founder
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 Private Client Team Lead
Kelly specialises in the recruitment of private client positions, including wills & probate lawyers, Court of Protection solicitors and trusts lawyers.
Paula Pawlowska
Associate Director and Family Team Lead
Paula specialises in the recruitment of family and childcare lawyers across the North West.
Joseph Shenton
Principal Consultant
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 specialises in the recruitment of litigation lawyers across the North West and the West Midlands.
Lucy Wickham
Associate Consultant - Yorkshire
Lucy specialises in the recruitment of family and care lawyers across Yorkshire.
Michaela Baddeley
Associate Consultant - North West
Michaela specialises in the recruitment of family and care lawyers across the North West.
Nonso Okonyia
Associate Consultant
Nonso specialises in the recruitment of litigation lawyers in Yorkshire.
Ben Cowlishaw
Consultant
Ben specialises in the recruitment of residential conveyancers and legal support professionals across the North West.
Bill Szajna-Hopgood
Consultant
Bill specialises in recruiting private client, Court of Protection and contentious probate lawyers across the North West and Yorkshire.
Kathryn McGeoghegan
Consultant
Kathryn specialises in the recruitment of commercial insurance and costs lawyers, as well as support staff in the personal injury and insurance sectors.
Rebecca Hopwood
Head of Support
Rebecca does a little bit of everything here at Realm, but mainly works to put strategies and processes in place that make sure our employees feel that their career aspirations are achievable, that they are engaged in their work and that their wellbeing is supported.
Bridget Lavery
Junior Administrator
Bridget is responsible for a plethora of tasks to keep things moving along behind the scenes, ranging from formatting CVs to organising social events for the team.
Chloe Whittaker
Junior PA
Chloe splits her time between being a PA for our Managing Director Duane, administration and HR.
Sarah Glynn
Head of Marketing and Client Experience
Sarah is responsible for steering our marketing and business development strategy and bringing our best-in-class services to new practice areas and regions.
Katherine Memery
Principal Marketing & PR Executive
Katherine oversees the business’s content strategy, helping to grow the Realm brand through PR, online and offline content and email marketing.
Lucy Cade
Senior Marketing Executive
Lucy is responsible for managing our campaigns and our social media content. She also helps our recruitment team to build and cultivate successful personal brands online.
Emma Marsh
Associate Marketing Executive
Emma is heavily involved in our job marketing, helping to promote our job opportunities on behalf of our recruitment team.
