Rebecca Young > JMW Solicitors LLP > Manchester, England > Lawyer Profile
JMW Solicitors LLP Offices
1 BYROM PLACE
SPINNINGFIELDS
MANCHESTER
M3 3HG
England
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Rebecca Young
Work Department
Commercial Litigation: Media and Reputation Management; Intellectual Property.
Position
Rebecca is a Partner at JMW and heads up the Media and Reputation Management team. Rebecca’s team provide specialist media and reputation management advice to clients predominantly based in the UK. The team is known for working collaboratively with clients’ PR teams and key stakeholders to manage, often at short notice, reputational or privacy issues. The team has considerable experience in dealing with the Media and in injunctive matters. Rebecca is known for being dedicated to assisting her clients to enforce their legal rights, to defend their legal position and to achieve positive outcomes.
Career
Trained at Pannone LLP (2009-2011) and qualified into the Commercial Litigation team; Slater and Gordon (2014-2017) following part of the Commercial Litigation team of Pannone LLP having been acquired; BLM (2017-2019) following the Business Advisory department at Slater and Gordon acquired; JMW Solicitors LLP (July 2019 – current).
Memberships
Women and the Law UK and Business
Education
Leeds University
Manchester Metropolitan university, Law School
Lawyer Rankings
North West > TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media and entertainment
(Next Generation Partners)JMW Solicitors LLP’s practice, rated by clients as the ‘go-to firm in the region‘, is led by experienced reputation management specialist Rebecca Young . Young is described by one client as ‘the best litigator I have dealt with‘, having overseen the growth of the practice and its workload, bringing in harassment and NDA expert Katherine Mills from Clyde & Co in October 2022. Also key within the team is Oliver Wright, whose specialism is reputation management work for politicians, trade unions and the police. Technology sector and cryptocurrency specialist Jemma Fleetwood has vast experience in acting in high-profile privacy litigation. The media group also works closely with the firm’s sports practice, led by Stephen Taylor Heath. Nick McAleenan joined Brabners LLP in August 2022, contributing his knowledge of phone hacking cases and security incidents. John Burns joined the group in early 2024 from Gateley Legal, contributing his broad experience in the drafting and negotiation of IP assignments and tech development exploitation agreements.
Lawyer Rankings
- Media and entertainment North West > TMT (technology, media and telecoms)
- Next Generation Partners North West > TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media and entertainment
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Crime: general crime and fraud
- Private client > Family
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media and entertainment
- Employment > Immigration
- Insurance > Personal injury and clinical negligence: claimant
- Insurance > Personal injury: claimant
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Manchester
- Real estate > Commercial property: Manchester
- Employment > Employment
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Manchester
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Real estate > Construction