Rachel Pears (She/Her) is RPC's Associate Director Responsible Business & Employment Counsel. She is responsible for driving RPC's portfolio of environment, DEIB, charity, pro bono and health & wellbeing programmes, drawing on her knowledge of ESG strategy and structure, equality law expertise as well as her personal experience as a sandwich carer.
Rachel is a passionate mental health champion and spearheaded RPC being one of the first law firms to offer a clinical psychology benefit free to its people. During Rachel's tenure, RPC also signed the Mindful Business Charter in 2019, was the first law firm to implement R;pple suicide prevention software on its systems and has enabled more than 40 people to become mental health first aiders.
In 2024, RPC won Responsible Business of the Year at the Women & Diversity in Law Awards and Rachel was named a 'Champion of the Year' Finalist at the Next 100 Years Inspirational Women's Awards. This year, RPC won the Lexis Nexis Award for Wellbeing for its array of initiatives designed to support its people and their mental health.
