The Lawyer Awards are the leading awards initiative within the legal calendar and are unquestionably the largest celebration of legal excellence in Europe. Bringing together over 1,200 private practice lawyers and senior corporate counsel, the Awards reward best practice and celebrate excellence across the whole industry.
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Recent years have seen a tremendous shift in almost all aspects of the UK legal services sector, but few have been more tangible than the transformation of senior marketing roles. What was once seen, somewhat disparagingly, as a ‘back office’ position is now taking its place shoulder to shoulder with the leading firms’ most senior rainmakers.
Law firms are finally waking up to the fact that marketing makes money. Not all, however, have quite yet cottoned on to precisely how. Most firms now recognise that as they and their clients grapple with the realities of digital transformation, the specialists leading this thinking are unlikely to be lawyers.
On 25 September 2018, The Lawyer and more than 120 managing partners, CEOs and top-level business services leaders will gather at the Business Leadership Summit to spend a day focusing on defining your law firm strategy in a tech driven future. Interested in joining your peers at the top table as the future of the market is decided?
The Lawyer’s In-house Counsel as Business Partner conference is an event where in-house lawyers can enhance their ability to meet the wider demands of their organisation, support their professional development needs and benchmark with their peers.
From keeping abreast of potential risks, to discussing prevention and compliance tactics as well as tackling the latest dispute resolution challenges, the event delivers an unrivalled platform for education and networking.
The Lawyer European Awards was the first initiative of its kind to reward and celebrate excellence across the European legal market. The awards scheme attracts entries form over 120 independent law firms headquartered in Europe and global firm across the Continent.
Shaping up to be the Financial Sector’s must-attend event, this 1-day conference is the perfect opportunity for in-house lawyers and compliance professionals to share their challenges in implementing the latest regulatory change, to understand how companies and industries are affected in practice by the new regulation and to benchmark with 90 of their peers.
UnitedLex’s CEO Dan Reed talks to The Lawyer about the impact of New Law arrivals on Big Law firms ahead of his session at the General Counsel Strategy Summit.
Our latest 60 second interview features EY partner and UK law leader for Financial Services Matthew Kellett, who talks to The Lawyer about innovation as a buzzword and technology myths and truths, ahead of his session at this year’s In-house Financial Services conference. Is innovation really just a buzzword? What does it mean to be […]
MarketInvoice head of legal and compliance Eoin O’Reilly talks to The Lawyer ahead of his session at the In-house Financial Services conference. What can be done to fortify the UK’s position as the global leader of fintech? I actually think we’re doing a lot of things right in the UK to create an environment where […]
Brewin Dolphin’s head of legal Alissa Foale talks to The Lawyer about her function’s biggest challenges and how she thinks financial services will transform in the coming years.
Ahead of this year’s In-house Financial Services conference, The Lawyer talks to Simon Coles, general counsel at Capital on Tap, about the challenge of managing his time as sole counsel, how he collaborates with the wider business and what he’s most excited about in the fintech space. What are the greatest challenges facing your in-house function? […]
In our latest 60 second interview, LV= general counsel Chris Griffin talks to The Lawyer about his function’s contribution to delivering transformational change, their biggest ongoing challenge and the role his panel firms play in helping his team keep up with technological change ahead of his session at this year’s In-house Financial Services conference. What […]
The full shortlist for The Lawyer Awards 2019, in association with Travelers, has been released, celebrating the best of private practice, in-house and the Bar. This year, over 60 judges from across the industry debated entries from law firms, companies and barristers chambers. Our judging panel includes BT general counsel Sabine Chalmers, Rosenblatt CEO Nicola […]
Creating a discernible and identifiable culture is no mean feat; creating one worthy of Law Firm of the Year is even harder. At a breakfast roundtable in the heart of the City, The Lawyer and Travelers spoke to those shortlisted for the top prize about how they cultivate, maintain and progress something so intangible. A […]
The firms in the running to win independent regional firm of the year at The Lawyer Awards.
There are eight firms in the running for this year’s Funds Team of the Year prize at The Lawyer Awards. Here are the deals that merited them a place on the shortlist.
The Lawyer’s two-day, VIP Summit brings together over 100 global, European and UK in-house general counsel and chief compliance officers to share best practice, trends and trouble-shooting tips across different sectors and geographies, focused on how lawyers can demonstrate value within increasingly risk conscious businesses.
These are the main messages that came out of The Lawyer’s 2018 Managing Risk and Litigation conference (MRL) last month.
In our latest video interview, Jake McQuitty partner at Eversheds Sutherland talks to The Lawyer about the key issues organisations should focus on following a cyber-attack and best practice for communicating with regulators.
In this video interview with The Lawyer, Nina Bryant, director at FTI Consulting, discusses the benefits of GDPR and the difficulty of balancing the rights of individuals with the need for innovation.
Gowling WLG’s commercial head Michael Luckman speaks to The Lawyer at this month’s In-house Counsel as Business Partner conference, in association with EY.
In this video interview, EY partner and UK law leader for financial services, Matthew Kellett tells The Lawyer what he thinks is holding legal departments back from exploring new technologies, how the law department of the future will operate and the skills that will be valued most.
In this video interview with Ralph Baxter, a member of Intapp’s Board of Directors and former chairman and CEO of Orrick, we discuss the new market dynamics law firms are facing today and the obstacles they need overcome in order to succeed in today’s environment and beyond.
Join this webinar to learn how to effectively take inventory of and categorise the data you hold, and the steps you should take to limit your exposure to a breach.
Pinsent Masons won the top prize at The Lawyer Awards 2018 last night, scooping the Law Firm of the Year award, sponsored by Travelers. This year’s judges – comprised of in-house general counsel, Hot 100 alumni and managing partners of major international firms – recognised that this was Pinsent Masons’ year. The firm has grown […]
Midlands law firm Wright Hassall, a multi-disciplinary practice representing businesses and individuals locally and nationally, has won The Lawyer Awards Regional Firm of the Year 2017 for its ambitious growth strategy and cultural goal to put the customer at the heart of everything it does. About Wright Hassall Wright Hassall is one of the largest law […]
