Manchester-based criminal solicitor and team leader at Reeds Solicitors LLP, Beth Mantel, has been nominated by the Legal 500 for the prestigious Crime Leading Associate of the Year award at the 2025 Northern Powerhouse Awards.

The awards, which take place on March 13th at The Kimpton Clocktower Hotel in Manchester, showcase the roster of legal talent and excellence across the North, North West, and Yorkshire & the Humber, and recognise the hard work and accomplishments over the past year. The award nominations are determined based on The Legal 500’s market-leading, independent research for the annual directories. The winners are selected by a judging team led by Amy Ulliott, editor of the UK regions, UK regions deputy editor Sophie Chan, and research editor Francisco Castro, backed by the support of our in-house and freelance research team which covers the UK guide every year.

 

Beth Mantel leads the Northwest Complex Crime practice at Reeds Solicitors. Having joined the firm in 2021, Beth was a founding member of the Manchester office which now has a strong following of clients across the North West. Her practice is based in the Crown Court and she deals almost exclusively in complex crime and is regularly instructed in multi-handed conspiracies involving drugs, robbery, murder and serious violence often involving the use of firearms.  She also has experience dealing with complex confiscation proceedings and understands that these matters can have more severe consequences than the original prosecution.

 

Commenting on the nomination, Jan Matthews, managing partner at Reeds Solicitors said:

“We are over the moon that Beth Mantel’s hard work and drive have been recognised at the Legal 500 Northern Powerhouse Awards. Beth has the remarkable ability to both make clients feel comfortable as well as analyse and digest large quantities of complex material to help their cases. This material often includes cell site data, encrochat messages, and sequence of events charts, that help her to quickly establish what the key issues are and how she can best defend her clients.  We look forward to cheering her at the awards on the night and celebrating her success whether she wins or not.”

 

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