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Senior Consultant - Litigation, North West
Rebecca is a Senior Consultant at Realm and specialises in the recruitment of commercial, property and financial litigation lawyers. She primarily works across the North West, focusing on the Manchester, Merseyside and Cheshire legal markets, but also works with some law firms in the West Midlands.
Rebecca qualified as a Commercial Litigation Solicitor in January 2013 and practised law for 7 years before making the move into recruitment. She joined Realm as an Associate Consultant in 2020, before being promoted to Senior Consultant in the summer of 2022.
Rebecca won the ‘Recruiter of the Year’ award at our annual Realmie Awards in 2022.
Rebecca was an absolute pleasure to work with in helping me secure my new role, giving me honest, clear and prompt advice and updates on the job, the application process and anything else I had questions about. I would not hesitate to recommend her or work with her again in future.
Daniel Rudnick
Commercial Litigation Solicitor
After working with Rebecca and the team at Realm for a little while now, we have filled the two commercial litigation roles we had advertised with two good quality candidates. Realm have a great understanding of both the firm, the commercial litigation team and what we are looking for. This has come across with the candidates they have provided.
Louise Hebborn
Partner at Stephensons
It has been such a pleasure working with Rebecca, she has been absolutely outstanding in understanding and keeping me fully informed throughout the whole process.
Shaista Kauser
Dispute Resolution Partner
Rebecca is amazing at her job. She quickly gets an in-depth understanding of what you are looking for in your new role and helps you get there. She is encouraging and very professional. Thank you Rebecca for your assistance in securing my new role.
Gloria Mensah
Property Litigation Solicitor
I had an excellent experience with Rebecca and would recommend getting in touch if you are looking around for your next career move. She has the right contacts and responds fast to messages.
Allan Kornbluth
Commercial Litigation Solicitor
One of the nicest bits of feedback that I’ve had recently from candidates is that they really appreciate the way that we check in with them. I think that’s something that sets us apart from other agencies that treat recruitment very much as a “sell-a-role” type approach. Whereas the way that we work is, we keep in regular contact with the lawyers that we try to help with the view to building those relationships so that even where they’re not immediately looking to move, because we get to know them so well, when the time is right, we’re in the best possible position to be able to assist them.
There are lots of things that we can help them with in the meantime anyway in terms of helping with salary benchmarking, drafting CVs and business plans and things like that. So, there’s plenty that we can help with even where people aren’t necessarily looking to move.
I recently helped a firm secure a partner that they thought they’d lost to another firm a few months prior, and it comes back to the same thing again, about keeping in contact with people and having those good relationships.
Unfortunately, because of the relationship that I had with my client, and the fact that I’d kept in contact with the candidate in question, it became apparent quite quickly that the firm they joined wasn’t the right fit. I was able to have the original offer reinstated with my client, they joined that firm the following week and things are going really well. So that was a successful all-around.
I was an associate in a commercial litigation team prior to moving into recruitment. And I’d actually been in the legal profession for about 11 years and doing litigation of various types. I think in hindsight, possibly, litigation wasn’t the right area of law for me and I just felt increasingly like there might be something more suited to me and my personality. I started thinking about different options and legal recruitment came to mind as something that I would have relevant skills for and I just thought it might be a better fit.
Apart from a bit of a false start with the pandemic hitting, I’ve not looked back. I really enjoy working at Realm and I feel like I personally get a lot of job satisfaction from recruitment.
It’s not very specific, but I do love travelling and I love going to new places. Mexico was somewhere that has been on my list for a while and I managed to get there before Christmas, so that was fantastic. I think just continuing down the ever-increasingly long list of places to go, which includes Bali, which is somewhere I’ve always wanted to go to, and I would love to go to the States and travel around a few places there too.
I think one of the main reasons that people choose to go into litigation is the diversity. You get exposure to different areas of law and it’s quite collaborative as well. You don’t tend to work on one case on your own. On lots of, especially the higher value, more complex matters, you’ll have a team of lawyers, you’ll have barristers, experts, witnesses so there’s a lot of working together as a team on a case. Building relationships with clients is key as well because a lot of cases will go on for potentially a number of years, so there are all the twists and turns that come with that.
It’s exciting, it’s challenging and definitely keeps you on your toes – I think that’s why it’s a really great practice area for people to consider going into.
I think it’s important for firms to move quickly. I think that’s the key thing. Move quickly with interviews, move quickly with getting offers out. I think where the market is more candidate rich than it perhaps was towards the end of last year, there’s a tendency for firms to want to try and interview as many people as possible before coming back with feedback or making decisions, and the risk is that they’ll lose out on some really good candidates. So yes, don’t delay would be my best advice at the moment.
