Norton Rose wins The Lawyer's top HR accolade for work on Flex
10 February 2010 | By Corinne McPartland
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Norton Rose carried off the top prize in The Lawyer HR Awards last night for its groundbreaking work on the Flex scheme, which allowed the firm to be one of the tiny number not to make redundancies last year.
For its work on this programme and also the preliminary work of integrating Australian firm Deacons, Norton Rose scooped HR Team of the Year.
In a glittering ceremony at Grosvenor House Hotel last night, the firm also won the award for talent management and retention.
London HR head Lak Purewal said: “We’ve worked on some very exciting and innovative HR initiatives over the last year and it’s great for Norton Rose and the HR team to get this recognition”.
The Lawyer HR Awards, now in its fourth year, is the only event of its kind dedicated to people management.
The winners in full are:
| Best graduate trainee recruitment campaign | |
| Sponsored by The College of Law | |
| Browne Jacobson | Winner |
| Clarke Willmott | Finalist |
| Linklaters | Finalist |
| Lovells | Finalist |
| Most effective internal communication | |
| Sponsored by Chadwick Nott | |
| Addleshaw Goddard | Winner |
| Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer | Highly Commended |
| Clarke Willmott | Finalist |
| Norton Rose | Finalist |
| Best in-house/public sector HR initiative | |
| Sponsored by Robert Walters | |
| Standard Chartered Bank | Winner |
| HANSON | Highly Commended |
| Barclays Capital | Finalist |
| Deutsche Bank | Finalist |
| Best website | |
| Sponsored by iLaw | |
| Lovells | Winner |
| Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer | Finalist |
| Linklaters | Finalist |
| Most effective employee benefits scheme | |
| Sponsored by Portus Consulting | |
| Linklaters | Winner |
| Farrer & Co | Highly Commended |
| Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer | Finalist |
| Trowers & Hamlins | Finalist |
| Best corporate responsibility initiative | |
| Sponsored by Frazer Jones | |
| Simmons & Simmons | Winner |
| Allen & Overy | Finalist |
| Bird & Bird | Finalist |
| Eversheds | Finalist |
| Lovells | Finalist |
| SJ Berwin | Finalist |
| Innovation in talent management & retention | |
| Sponsored by National College of Legal Training | |
| Norton Rose | Winner |
| Linklaters | Highly Commended |
| Berwin Leighton Paisner | Finalist |
| Bird & Bird | Finalist |
| Field Fisher Waterhouse | Finalist |
| Pinsent Masons | Finalist |
| Most effective diversity programme | |
| Sponsored by BPP Law School | |
| Addleshaw Goddard | Winner |
| Herbert Smith | Highly Commended |
| Pinsent Masons | Highly Commended |
| Baker & McKenzie | Finalist |
| Berwin Leighton Paisner | Finalist |
| Eversheds | Finalist |
| Most innovative recruitment initiative | |
| Sponsored by Hays | |
| CMS Cameron McKenna | Winner |
| Berwin Leighton Paisner | Finalist |
| Bird & Bird | Finalist |
| Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer | Finalist |
| Award for excellence in training | |
| Sponsored by Kaplan Law School | |
| Berwin Leighton Paisner | Winner |
| Hill Dickinson | Finalist |
| Linklaters | Finalist |
| Mills & Reeve | Finalist |
| Ogier | Finalist |
| Pinsent Masons | Finalist |
| HR Director of the Year | |
| Sponsored by Blackbridge | |
| Joanna Parker, Clarke Willmott | Winner |
| Charlie Keeling, Field Fisher Waterhouse | Highly Commended |
| Martin Blackburn, Baker & McKenzie | Finalist |
| Neil Middleton, Capsticks Solicitors | Finalist |
| Lak Purewal, Norton Rose | Finalist |
| Kay Willis, Lovells | Finalist |
| HR team of the year | |
| Sponsored by First Counsel | |
| Norton Rose | Winner |
| Pinsent Masons | Highly Commended |
| Clarke Willmott | Finalist |
| Field Fisher Waterhouse | Finalist |
| Linklaters | Finalist |
| Taylor Wessing | Finalist |
Readers' comments (1)
Dumbfounded | 10-Feb-2010 9:07 pm
What is this? DLA Piper did not make the list? Not even for their demonstrated HR prowess in the Middle East or virtuoso redundancy management in London? Something must be wrong.
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