Meet our Experts
Tom Balmer
David Crocker
Hamish Drake
Ellie Dade
Billie Partridge-Naudeer
Steve Hallam
Jamie Houseman
Andrea Hutchinson
Elmira Meehan
Michael Field
Emily Coffey
Megan Muldoon
Joshua Blake
James Walls
Emma Bennett
Laura Davidson
Holta Loku
Hannah Benger
Archie Clark
Elizabeth Sotinel
Aoife O'Neill
Priyanka Bawa
Ruchi Bhalla
Lucy Enderby
Dylan Teasdale
Purdeep Sihota
Elena Zharkikh
Sam Davenport
Libby Britton
Our Story
We founded Third Way to improve the experience of lawyers moving jobs.
We wanted a place where lawyers could see exactly which firms and in-house teams are hiring, including ones not using agencies or advertising publicly. That had genuinely accurate salary information listed by firm. And where they had access to a consultative expert with deep knowledge of their market.
In 2020 Third Way merged with Montresor Legal. The combination creates a genuinely unique legal recruiter that brings together the market intelligence and network of a top search firm, with the transparency and access of a marketplace platform.
Tom Balmer
Tom is a founder at Third Way Legal, and our sister business Montresor Legal. He has worked within the legal recruitment industry since 2001. Tom’s clients include top investment banks, asset managers and fin tech businesses along with selected law firms.
Outside work Tom enjoys exploring new ways to battle his waistline and pretending to be knowledgeable about wine.
Email: tom@montresorlegal.com
Tel: +44 (0)7876746728
Hamish Drake
Hamish is a Director at Montresor Legal and leads the law firm practice recruiting lawyers on behalf of US and UK law firms in London and abroad.
Prior to entering legal recruitment over 7 years ago, Hamish practiced as a debt finance lawyer with national and international law firms in Australia and his home country, New Zealand.
Email: hamish.drake@montresorlegal.com
Tel: +44 (0)7400346101
Ellie Dade
Ellie is an Associate Consultant at Montresor Legal. She joined Montresor Legal in 2019 from another leading legal recruitment agency. Ellie specialises in private practice recruitment, with experience of helping lawyers move within the Litigation, Finance and Commercial IP spaces, in particular, working with both UK and US law firms.
Outside of the office Ellie proudly spends her time watching Norwich City consistently be almost good enough to play in the Premier League and is always on the lookout for a new gin that she has not yet tried.
Email: ellie.dade@montresorlegal.com
Tel: +44 (0)7593572780
Michael Field
Michael is an Associate Consultant at Montresor Legal, covering both private practice and in-house searches across the corporate, finance and litigation space. He joined the company in 2019 as a law graduate from the University of Exeter, having previously worked in corporate event planning.
When not in the office Mike enjoys partaking in motorcycle track days and throwing himself down a mountain as often as possible.
Email: michael.field@montresorlegal.com
Tel: +44 (0)7593553044
Phil Redhead
Phil has been working in legal recruitment since 2015 and specialises in helping lawyers find their next in-house role in Commerce & Industry. His clients include SMEs and FTSE businesses and he places lawyers into companies across Europe.
He spends his free time visiting National Trust properties and trying to convince people that Floorball is a real sport.
Email: philip.redhead@thirdway.pro
Tel: +44 (0)7593572774
Jamie Houseman
Jamie is a Software Developer who brings many years of development experience to Third Way having worked on websites for many high profile companies. He is Third Way ’s Full Stack developer and is responsible for building and deploying new features and the ongoing development of the platform.
Outside of work Jamie enjoys Music, gigs and photography.
Megan Muldoon
Megan is the Office Assistant at Montresor and Third Way Legal. Megan runs the adminsitrative processes in the office. She has recently moved to London from Warwickshire.
Outside of work you will find Megan either having cocktails and brunches with her friends, or probably still lost in London and trying to navigate the tube.
David Crocker
David is a founder at Montresor Legal. David’s practice involves placing partners and senior lawyers with US and UK law firms, with a particular focus on global finance.
He has worked within the legal recruitment industry since 2007. David’s clients include the transactional practices of leading US and UK law firms and he also has an excellent network across investment banks and asset managers.
When not in the office David can be found spending time watching Arsenal throw away leads and watching every reality television show broadcast.
Email: david@montresorlegal.com
Tel: +44 (0)7837389887
Andrea Hutchinson
Andrea is an Associate Director in Montresor’s In-house Financial Services practice. Andrea specialises in placing lawyers across financial services with particular expertise in insurance, private equity/venture capital and FinTech. She has experience in recruiting both in the UK and internationally.
When she isn’t being a spokesperson for her hometown in Canada, she is often seen showcasing her newly acquired British citizenship by incorrectly delivering Brit slang.
Email: andrea.hutchinson@montresorlegal.com
Tel: +44 (0)7593572746
Elmira Meehan
Elmira is a Senior Consultant in the Transactional practice at Montresor Legal. She has over 9 years of legal recruitment experience, specialising in the placement of finance, funds & regulatory lawyers into some of the major investment banks, buy side firms and law firms.
When not in the office Elmira is busy running around after her 2-year-old toddler!
Email: elmira.meehan@montresorlegal.com
Tel: +44 (0)7593572742
Billie Partridge-Naudeer
Billie’s work covers the in-house space in Commerce & Industry. She has been on the team since she graduated in 2015, first as Office and HR Manager and now as a Consultant. She specialises in tech, start-ups, and scale-ups.
Outside of work you will find Billie out with her friends, spending money she doesn’t have on things she doesn’t need.
Email: billie.pn@montresorlegal.com
Tel: +44 (0)7593 553 045
Emily Coffey
Emily is the Marketing Manager at Montresor Legal. She brings experience from multiple industries and companies, from small tech start ups to Fortune 500 corporate environments. She has worked heavily in digital and product marketing, along with public speaking in front of crowds of over 20 thousand. She specialises in bringing companies to life with branding and messaging that tells the companies story.
Outside of work, you can find her in record shops, playing indie video games, or trying to find the best ramen spot in town.
Joshua Blake
Josh has 5 years of recruitment experience and was most recently a Manager at a Global PLC. Josh looks after all Interim roles at Third Way Legal across private practice and in-house. He has particular expertise in financial services and litigation.
Outside the office, Josh enjoys boxing and telling jokes that only he finds funny.
Email: joshua.blake@montresorlegal.com
Tel: +44 (0)7593572763
James Walls
James has over three years of legal recruitment experience and joined Montresor Legal from a global recruitment agency in March 2020. He works with a variety of law firms across the city placing qualified lawyers into interim roles across a range of practices.
As a keen motorcyclist, James enjoys everything from watching MotoGP to planning his next cross country trip with friends.
Email: James.walls@montresorlegal.com
Tel: +44 (0)7593572764
Emma Bennett
Emma joined Montresor from an international ALSP in 2021. She has over eight years experience in legal recruitment and specialises placing lawyers with corporates on an interim or fixed term basis.
Outside of work Emma enjoys yoga, cooking and maintaining a love-hate relationship with running half marathons.
Laura Davidson
Laura joined Montresor from a FTSE 250 international recruiter in 2020. She specialises in providing corporates across a range of industry sectors with flexible legal resource, placing candidates on an interim and contract basis.
Outside of work, you will find Laura attempting to keep active, fuelling her shopping addiction or escaping to a beach in Norfolk for the weekend.
Email: Laura.davidson@montresorlegal.com
Tel: +44 (0)7593572776
Holta Loku
Holta specialises in placing Associates within Private Practice, having worked in the legal recruitment industry since 2011. Her client base consists of top US and UK law firms and she has experience across a range of transactional practice areas with a particular focus on Finance, Tax and Corporate.
Outside of work you will find Holta at art galleries and theatres or on her sofa, watching reality TV shows.
Email: holta.loku@montresorlegal.com
Tel: +44 (0)7593572771
Hannah Benger
Hannah has worked in private practice associate recruitment since 2011, joining Montresor from another leading legal recruitment firm where she led the associate team. She has placed lawyers at all levels of seniority and across all practice areas into many of the most prestigious and successful firms in the London market. She has extensive experience in retained, exclusive and contingent search mandates.
When not working she enjoys sampling London’s restaurant scene (and running to work it off!)
Email: hannah.benger@montresorlegal.com
Tel: +44 (0)7593572781
Archie Clark
Archie is an Associate Consultant at Montresor Legal, covering the private practice market. He joined Montresor after graduating with a Politics degree from the University of Leeds, having previous experience at a global organizational consulting firm.
Outside of the office, Archie enjoys watching Chelsea win trophies or change managers, both at an equally impressive speed.
Tel: +44 (0)7593 572772
Elizabeth Sotinel
Elizabeth is a Consultant with Montresor’s Private Practice team. She joined Montresor Legal after managing a US immigration and asylum practice out of Libreville, Gabon.
Elizabeth is an American lawyer with a JD from the University of Notre Dame and a proud Texpat who’s lived in London off and on since 2016. Outside the office you can find her chasing her Havanese around Brockwell Park or forcing TexMex on her friends and family.
Email: elizabeth.sotinel@montresorlegal.com
Tel: +44 (0)7593 572 774
Aoife O'Neill
Aoife joined Montresor in 2021 as a graduate, having moved over to London from Dublin, Ireland.
Outside of work you will find her spending time with her friends & exploring all London has to offer (with a very heavy reliance on google maps).
Email: aoife.oneill@montresorlegal.com
Tel: +44 (0) 7706 318 221
Ruchi Bhalla
Ruchi is a Consultant in the Private Practice team at Montresor Legal, specialising in U.K. and U.S. law firm recruitment. Ruchi joined Montresor Legal in 2022, previously working as a securities lawyer at a national law firm in Canada and consulted at a "Big 4" consulting firm. Ruchi specialises in bringing international candidates to the London market.
Outside of work Ruchi enjoys exploring the food scenes in both London and Toronto.
Email: Ruchi.bhalla@montresorlegal.com
Tel: +44 (0) 7706 344 014
Steve Hallam
Steve is the Chief Operating Officer at Montresor having joined in September 2021.
He has worked within the recruitment industry for 27 years. Steve’s experience includes over 20 years in his last role with a FTSE 250 global recruiter, the last seven years as Managing Director running successful businesses across England, Scotland and Ireland. He was the Global Account Director for the world’s second-largest card payment organisation. Steve specialises in recruiting, building, coaching, mentoring and training sales teams.
When not in the office Steve can generally be found cycling around the Surrey Hills in very tight-fitting clothing that his wife says no middle-aged man should be allowed wear.
Dylan Teasdale
Dylan is an Associate Consultant at Montresor Legal working across the board with law firms, corporations and institutions.
Outside work Dylan enjoys an active lifestyle whilst exploring new areas of London (not always intentionally).
Email: Dylan.teasdale@montresorlegal.com
Tel: +44 (0) 7706 318 211
Sam Davenport
Sam joined Montresor in 2021 from a boutique in-house legal recruitment agency. With 3 years experience recruiting for companies across C&I with a focus on Fintech & Tech, Sam works on both interim and permanent positions in this area.
Outside of work you will find Sam playing or more likely talking about football, cooking or tending to one of his many houseplants.
Email: sam.davenport@montresorlegal.com
Tel: +44 (0) 7706 312 346
Libby Britton
Libby is a resourcer for the in-house team at Montresor Legal. She recently joined the team and moved to London as a graduate from university.
When not in the office Libby can be found enjoying one of London’s many restaurants/bars or dreaming about her next holiday.
Email: libby.britton@montresorlegal.com
Tel: +44 (0) 7706 318 218
Our Story
We founded Third Way to improve the experience of lawyers moving jobs.
We wanted a place where lawyers could see exactly which firms and in-house teams are hiring, including ones not using agencies or advertising publicly. That had genuinely accurate salary information listed by firm. And where they had access to a consultative expert with deep knowledge of their market.
A platform that combines the best of technology and recruiting expertise. We hope you like it.