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Meet the team – Private practice

 
Katherine Jackson - Operating Director - London
 
As Operating Director of Page Group Legal Katherine oversees all legal recruitment across our Michael Page, Page Personnel and Executive brands. This remit encompasses In House, Private Practice, Qualified and Non-qualified lawyers both in temporary and permanent roles.
 
Following an early career in law Katherine joined Michael Page Legal and has progressed to oversee all In-House recruitment in London and much of the South, as well as spearheading a number of highly specialised divisions.
 
Her primary objective is been to ensure that Page Group Legal is consistently and effectively adapting to market trends whilst seeking out ways in which we can best meet the needs of our candidates and clients in an ever-changing landscape of recruitment.
 
T: 020 7269 2413 
M:  07818048676
E: [email protected]
LinkedIn - Katherine Jackson
 
 
MIke Smith - Associate Director - Leeds
 
Mike joined Michael Page Legal in 2005 previously working for an international law firm in Leeds. As the Associate Director he looks after our teams across the North and Midlands. Mike specialises in recruiting at Partner and Solicitor level for the law firms across Yorkshire and North East.
 
T: 01132 437 731
M: 0188 1904 018
E: [email protected]
LinkedIn - Mike Smith
 
 
Raj Bajwa - Regional Manager - Reading
 
As a Manager for Michael Page Legal, Raj manages a team of specialist legal consultants recruiting lawyers of all levels into law firms in the South East and across the South West.  Raj and her team have over 10 years’ experience in recruiting within the legal sector and they have many long standing relationships with top tier, niche and boutique private practice firms. 
 
Raj has assisted lawyers making the move from London to regional practices where they can find a similar quality of work, whilst getting fantastic career progression. Having been a lawyer prior to her career in legal recruitment, Raj is passionate about Legal recruitment and takes immense pride in delivering a first class service for candidates and clients alike. 
 
T: 0118 9559 058
M: 07771 345 123
M: [email protected]
LinkedIn - Raj Bajwa
 
 
Conor Farrell- Manager - Birmingham
 
Conor manages our Birmingham team and has over 5 years’ experience recruiting qualified legal professionals within Private Practice across the West Midlands and East Midlands and surrounding areas. Conor recruits across all disciplines into a range of private practices from top-tier internationals firms to high street firms. He recruits from NQ to partner level moves.
 
Prior to joining Michael Page in 2012, Conor trained as a solicitor at Squire Patton Boggs (previously Hammonds) in Birmingham before qualifying as a Corporate Finance solicitor in 2010. Conor has almost 10 years’ experience working within the Midlands legal market, so can draw upon an enviable list of contacts and extensive knowledge of the local market.
 
Outside of work Conor has a love/hate relationship with Wolverhampton Wanderers
 
T: 0121 634 8807
M: 07467 000 461
E: [email protected]
LinkedIn - Conor Farrell
 
 
Hattie Roberts - Managing Consultant - London
 
Hattie is a Managing Consultant on our Page Personnel Paralegal team, specialising in the area of paralegal recruitment into Private Practice. Within that market, she focuses specifically on the areas of Immigration, Private Client, Real Estate, Corporate and Banking & Finance law for paralegal recruitment. Hattie recruits for vacancies on a temporary, fixed term contract and permanent basis and is continually expanding her network of both clients and candidates to provide a top recruitment service. 
 
Hattie joined the Page Personnel Legal team as part of PageGroup’s Graduate Development Programme in 2014 upon graduating from the University of Bristol, where she studied French. If you are looking to hire a paralegal or indeed are looking for a paralegal job then get in touch and I’d love to discuss how I can help!
 
T: 0207 269 2115
M: 07471 142 272
E: [email protected]
LinkedIn - Hattie Roberts
 
 
Sebastian Jones - Senior Consultant - London
 
Sebastian is a Senior Consultant in the Private Practice team at Michael Page Legal. He has a strong track record of placing qualified lawyers of all levels (NQ to Partner) into the leading law firms in London and the surrounding areas. 
 
Sebastian specialises in recruiting lawyers into the core areas of:  Employment and Pensions; Tax; Litigation; and Corporate / Commercial. Clients range from large International firms to the smaller mid-City and West-End firms, and the legal arms of the leading accountancy practices. 
 
Sebastian turned to Legal Recruitment after studying Law at the University of Leeds. In his spare time, he enjoys playing rugby, following football and reading.  
 
T: 0207 296 2440
M: 07585 305 188
E: [email protected]
LinkedIn - Sebastian Jones
 
 
Donna Witten - Consultant - London
 
As a consultant at Michael Page Legal, Donna is responsible for growing our qualified interim & permanent legal private practice market in London. Donna qualified with an LLB in South Africa and went on to complete her training contract in commercial and property law. After spending two years practicing law, this by chance lead Donna to recruiting top legal talent in London with Michael Page Legal. 
 
Donna is truly passionate about tempting talented lawyers find their ideal job, she recruits on the interim & permanent side within Private Practice from a span of practice areas. Working closely with many of the firms in London, often on an exclusive basis, as well as some of the most sought after immediately available candidates in the market.
 
After 2+ years with Michael Page Donna gets as excited today as she did back then seeing her clients and candidates’ prosper. Donna joined Michael Page because it is a company which shares her passion for legal recruitment and our aspiration to be the legal partner of choice for both candidates and clients.
 
 
T: 0207 269 408
M:  07795 454 553
E: [email protected]
LinkedIn - Donna Witten

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