The shortlist for The Lawyer Awards 2024 has been revealed, pitting firms, chambers and in-house teams against each other in the quest for victory. The awards take place on 18 June 2024 in London’s JW Marriott Grosvenor House Hotel. For more information, please visit our website or contact the team on awards@thelawyer.com. Awarding winners across […]
Over 1,000 legal professionals gathered last night for The Lawyer Awards 2023, with firms including Allen & Overy, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Herbert Smith Freehills picking up trophies. Allen & Overy won the coveted Law Firm of the Year prize as it looks set to agree the most significant deal in its nearly-century-old existence – that of […]
Can you feel the electricity in the air? The crackle of anticipation? The goosebump-inducing sense of excitement for The Lawyer Awards 2023? We probably don’t need to ask the rhetorical questions, as we already know the answer. It’s a resounding YES. A full year has passed since one and all gathered to dine and make […]
The shortlist for The Lawyer Awards was unveiled last month, celebrating legal excellence across the profession. Today, we reveal the firms in the running for Law Firm of the Year. This year, nine firms have been shortlisted by The Lawyer as contenders for the most important trophy in the legal sector. The winner of Law Firm of the Year, […]
The shortlist for The Lawyer Awards 2023 has been revealed, with firms, chambers and in-house teams battling it out to take home a trophy. The awards take place on 20 June 2023 in London’s JW Marriott Grosvenor House Hotel. For more information, please visit our website or contact the team on awards@thelawyer.com. Awarding winners across […]
Pinsent Masons, Konexo and Kingsley Napley are just some of the firms that have been bathing in Lawyer Awards glory since last year’s ceremony. But are you up to the task of challenging them for the 2023 trophy? Find out how to enter here. Nominations are open for this year’s The Lawyer Awards, which takes […]
The most eagerly-anticipated list of the year is here: The Lawyer Hot 100 2024. Each year, it is our privilege to talk to the UK’s most adventurous, most innovative and most dynamic lawyers. They encompass barristers, private practice solicitors and in-house lawyers, of all ages, from Brighton to Birmingham and beyond. This year’s crop of […]
Today, The Lawyer unveils its Hot 100 2023, celebrating the successes of those working within the industry over the past 12 months. Featuring the crème de la crème of the legal world, The Lawyer Hot 100 highlights this year’s dealmakers, the litigators who are riding high after trial glory and the most sought-after names in the world of competition, […]
The Lawyer Hot 100 nominations window is currently open. How to nominate Please do not send your submissions in a PDF or Word document. Instead, simply paste all your submissions, in alphabetical order by surname, into the body text of an email, with the following information at the top of each entry: Nominee’s name, Name […]
Members of The Lawyer Hot 100 have just two things in common. The first is excellence. Every year, our Hot 100 covers an incredibly diverse mix of legal professionals: scrappers from the rough and tumble of criminal law; sharp-suited corporate dealmakers; intellectuals and silver-tongued advocates from barristers’ profession; the in-house counsel with the ear of their CEOs; […]
Our Hot 100 2021 share the best piece of wisdom their mentors ever gave.
The legal landscape in England and Wales is rapidly transforming with the introduction of the Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE). This shift in the qualification process for legal professionals is reshaping the traditional route to becoming a solicitor, and by 2032, all existing routes will be officially phased out, making it the sole option for aspiring […]
Bird & Bird has turned to DWF to fill the newly-created role of head of responsible business. Dan Noakes makes the move, where he held the role of head of ESG operations and business development at DWF for the last three years. Before that, Noakes has held similar roles in both the professional services and […]
Five train operators, five heads of legal: how this all-female team manages the legal functions for the likes of LNER, Northern and Southeastern railways.
TLT has announced its latest goal as part of its diversity and inclusion strategy, aiming for female lawyers to make up half of its partnership in five years time. Since the introduction of its strategy in 2019, TLT has built its Women’s Equality Network (WEN) to action plans around the improving equality, D&I and wellness […]
Where are you from? Anybody who has ever watched the TV genealogy show Who Do You Think You Are? will be aware that this is not always as straightforward a question to answer as it might first seem. And anyone who has ever worked in a law firm will know that it is not always […]
Born and raised in western Nigeria, I have always been fascinated by rock formations and geology. I spent the summer holiday before the start of my senior secondary school year absorbed in a geography textbook authored by Goh Cheng Leong, earning to uncover more about the earth, mountains, volcanoes, and other natural phenomenon. However, I […]
It was Blair Underwood’s character Jonathan Rollins in LA Law who first inspired me to become a lawyer, cliched as this sounds. As a child aged 7, I had never seen a black man in a professional role before, and I was in awe – representation really does matter. My initial steps into the legal […]
Born into a Sudanese family, my parents made a significant decision that would shape my experiences as a Black woman in ways I could never have anticipated. They chose to move our family to a small town in Oxfordshire, far away from their Sudanese community. This decision, coupled with my education at a Catholic primary […]
As part of Black History Month, The Lawyer spoke to four Allen & Overy lawyers, from trainee to partner, about their experiences in the law.
Growing up between London and Lagos, Claudius Sokenu started out in the US government legal department before later becoming the first Black male partner at American outfit Shearman & Sterling. It was after becoming a partner that he took his career in a new direction by moving in-house. “I always knew that I didn’t think […]
The LGBTQ+ community has marched long and hard to promote inclusion, awareness and acceptance. It strikes me, however, that the corporate world has reached the final frontier, and it will take sustained determination and willing participants to finish the journey: LGBTQ+ leadership and smash the pink ceiling. Think for a moment about how many positions […]
I wasn’t much for Pride when I first came out. My understanding was that you came out, people accepted it (or didn’t), you accepted that and then you got on with stuff as normal. It was a few straight friends from university who introduced me to Pride. They lived in Brighton and had grown up […]
One of the many things which has changed for the better in the legal profession since I became an articled clerk in September 1989 is its attitude towards LGBTQ solicitors. I was very clear when I started my legal career that being gay (or at least coming out to the firm and colleagues) would not […]
There is a rather big word that our friends in the Diversity & Inclusivity (D&I) teams have in their lexicon which is “intersectionality”. I am not sure anyone really understands what it means. Is it about gender, sexuality, race, religion, social class and/or disabilities? It is supposed to acknowledge all the differences between us which […]
On 25 June last year, the unthinkable happened. Tragedy struck in what should have been a weekend of celebration. Two people were shot and killed at the heart of the Oslo Pride celebrations. Some of my colleagues were moving in London pub circles, some of them know people who were directly affected, and some of […]
How many times have you heard a member of the LGBTQIA+ community share that they have hidden part of their personal lives during their career? Yet, even once they have come out of the closet, it feels as if the door slams shut again with each new job, position, colleague… At the start of my […]
In our latest 60 second interview as part of the Legal Transformation Week, we heard from John Beckett, General Counsel Global Architectural Products and Global Business Services Division at Hunter Douglas, about the relationship between legal and compliance in 2024. How do you think legal and compliance should work together? What is the best model […]
In our latest interview as part of Legal Transformation Week, Matthew Heyn, assistant general counsel at FIS, talks to The Lawyer about the transition from private practice to in-house, and how the pathways to a legal career have changed in recent years. How can in-house teams help employees with the transition from private practice? One […]
In our latest 60 second interview Kate Tyers, legal director at Ricardo, talks to The Lawyer about how best to introduce and use legal tech in an in-house team. Kate is one of the 100+ attendees joining us on 19th March at the Legal Transformation Summit. If you were a General Counsel looking to implement […]
In our latest 60 second interview, Norton Rose Fulbright’s head of legal operations consulting Stéphanie Hamon talks to The Lawyer about the skills in-house lawyers need in 2022, the importance of skills mapping, and the value this brings to the wider business. Are the skills that in-house lawyers require in 2022 different from those needed […]
In our latest 60 second interview, TLT’s client services transformation partner Siân Ashton talks to The Lawyer about the need to challenge the assumption that technology is always the answer and how analysing processes can deliver the greatest improvements in efficiency. The pandemic has massively accelerated the pace of digital transformation. Is technology still a […]