Meet your team

Our vision is for all lawyers to be matched with the right law firms. Whether you are a lawyer looking for your next opportunity or simply some career advice, or a law firm seeking to attract, recruit and retain the best legal talent, speak to our team today.

Duane Cormell

Managing Director and Co-founder

He set up Realm in 2015 with the aim of helping law firms improve their productivity and profitability through a refreshing, values-driven approach to legal recruitment. 

Kelly Reid

Associate Director and Private Client Team Lead

Specialist for private client, Court of Protection and contentious probate in the North West.

Paula Pawlowska

Associate Director and Head of Recruiter Division

Head of our team of specialist recruiters.

Rebecca Hopwood

Associate Director and 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.

Sarah Glynn

Associate Director and 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.

Paula Tanner

Head of Finance

Paula is our Head of Finance and is responsible for all financial processing and management.

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Start your journey with Realm

With each of our consultants covering just one practice area in a focused region, we know pretty much every lawyer you might want to recruit and every law firm you might want to join. We build close, long-term relationships with our engaged communities of lawyers and are therefore better able to connect the right people to the right firms. Through our refreshing approach to legal recruitment, underpinned by our three core values – to be refreshingly collaborative, human and dynamic – we help to develop legal careers and sustainably grow law firms.