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Revealed: The Hot 100 2024

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 […]

Revealed: The Hot 100 2023

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, […]

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The Lawyer Hot 100: nominations process for 2024-25

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 […]

Revealed: The Hot 100 2022

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; […]

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Revealed: The Hot 100 2021

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 […]

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Revealed – The Hot 100 2019

Once again, The Lawyer’s Hot 100, in association with AlixPartners and LexisNexis, gathers together the standout lawyers in the UK over the past year.

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Revealed: The Hot 100 2018

Once again, The Lawyer’s Hot 100 gathers together the standout lawyers in the UK over the past year – the most daring, innovative and creative lawyers from in-house, private practice and the Bar.  

The Lawyer Hot 100 2017

Revealed: The Hot 100 2017

This year’s Hot 100 gathers together the best lawyers in the UK – the most daring, innovative and creative. Find out who made the cut here. The Hot 100 effect: How being in the list changed my career  

Hot 100 2017 – Corporate

Ian Bagshaw Private equity co-head, White & Case   In 2016, White & Case took over Latham & ­Watkins as the largest US firm in London by revenue, after an 18 per cent rise in fee income to $283m. Much of the growth was thanks to the private equity drive led by global practice co-heads […]

Hot 100 2017 – The Bar

Stephen Cragg QC Barrister, Monckton Chambers   Stephen Cragg QC’s busy human rights practice is packed with significant cases. Among the most notable in the last year was a Supreme Court appearance acting for a woman and her mother seeking to gain the right to access NHS-funded abortion services in England for women from Northern […]