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 26 categories, the ceremony will celebrate the very best of the legal industry over the past year.
In 2023, Allen & Overy won the top prize for Law firm of the year, while other key awards went to Macfarlanes for City firm of the year, and to Brick Court for Chambers of the year.
The Lawyer Awards 2024 shortlist
UK firm of the year
Addleshaw Goddard
Brodies
DLA Piper
Freeths
Hill Dickinson
Shoosmiths
Slaughter and May
International firm of the year
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Clifford Chance
Fieldfisher
Hogan Lovells
Latham & Watkins
Paul Hastings
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
Quinn Emanuel
Competition & regulatory team of the year
Bristows
CMS
Covington & Burling
Hogan Lovells
Morgan Lewis & Bockius
Norton Rose Fulbright
Pinsent Masons
Weil Gotshal & Manges
Corporate team of the year
Brown Rudnick
Clifford Chance
Dorsey & Whitney
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Latham & Watkins
Linklaters
Stephenson Harwood
Travers Smith
White & Case
Energy & infrastructure team of the year
Ashurst
CMS
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Latham & Watkins
Mayer Brown
Slaughter and May
Taylor Wessing
TLT
Vinson & Elkins
Finance team of the year
Baker McKenzie
Brown Rudnick
DLA Piper
Herbert Smith Freehills
Milbank
Paul Hastings
Ropes & Gray
Taylor Wessing
Weil Gotshal and Manges
Restructuring team of the year
Allen & Overy
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Greenberg Traurig
Hogan Lovells
Kirkland & Ellis
Pinsent Masons
Shoosmiths
Squire Patton Boggs
Litigation team of the year
Addleshaw Goddard and McDermott Will & Emery (joint entry)
Browne Jacobson and Bevan Brittan (joint entry)
Lewis Silkin
Mayer Brown
Mishcon de Reya
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan
TLT
Travers Smith
Real estate team of the year
Addleshaw Goddard
Ashurst
Asserson Law Offices
Burges Salmon, Tughans and Translink (joint entry)
CMS
Eversheds Sutherland
Gowling WLG
Howard Kennedy
General Counsel of the Year
Alexis Leonidou, Domestic & General
Daniel Winterfeldt MBE KC, Jefferies
Hugh Pugsley, HSBC
Jessica Winter, Wise
Lauren Aste, CWT
Peter Ho, Tyman
Sarah Whiteley, Cabot Credit Management
Simon Zinger, Entain
Yara Owayyed, YouLend
In-house banking & financial services team of the year
Deutsche Bank
Domestic & General
HSBC
Klarna
Metro Bank
Realty Income
RSA Insurance Group
YouLend
Zopa Bank
In-house commerce & industry team of the year
BAE Systems
Cancer Research Horizons
Equinor
GSK
KONE
Lightsource bp
National Grid
Starbucks EMEA
Vodafone
In-house technology, media and sport team of the year
Arm Holdings
Benefex
Condé Nast
Informa
Reach
Salesforce UK
Tottenham Hotspur Football Club
Trustpilot
Wise
Barrister of the year
Allison Clare KC, Red Lion Chambers
Andrew Green KC, Blackstone Chambers
Fenella Morris KC, 39 Essex Chambers
George Spalton KC, 4 New Square Chambers
Ian Winter KC, Cloth Fair Chambers
Jason Beer KC, 5 Essex Chambers
Mark Phillips KC, South Square
Philip Riches KC, Twenty Essex
Chambers of the year
39 Essex Chambers
Littleton Chambers
Monckton Chambers
New Square Chambers
4 New Square
Old Square Chambers
One Essex Court
South Square
Twenty Essex
Wilberforce Chambers
Best client service innovation
Dentons
DWF
Eversheds Sutherland
Mills & Reeve
Osborne Clarke and Medivet
HSBC
Simmons & Simmons
Slaughter and May
Vodafone
Most innovative use of technology
Addleshaw Goddard
Bird & Bird
CMS
Dentons
DWF
Simmons & Simmons
Slaughter and May
TLT and Vodafone
Legal operations team of the year
Bupa
CMS
HSBC, Konexo and Radiant Law (joint entry)
Government Legal Department
Gowling WLG
GSK
Inchcape
KPMG UK
Best technology product
Barbri Global
Opus 2
Juro
Luminance
My Customer Lens
Pocketlaw
Shieldpay
Thomson Reuters
Best talent and inclusion initiative
Browne Jacobson
Burges Salmon
Charles Russell Speechlys
City Century
Flex Legal
Howden Group Holdings
InterLaw Diversity Forum
Macfarlanes
Pro Bono initiative of the year
Ashurst
Baker McKenzie
Fragomen
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Herbert Smith Freehills
Hogan Lovells
Latham & Watkins, Mishcon de Reya, Morrison Foerster and Ropes & Gray (joint entry)
Osborne Clarke
Travers Smith, Justice and Cornerstone Barristers (joint entry)
Sustainability initiative of the year
Anglo American
Dentons
DLA Piper
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Osborne Clarke and Starbucks EMEA
Pinsent Masons
Shoosmiths
Travers Smith
Specialist firm of the year
BDBF
Euclid Law
Fenwick Elliott
Fragomen
Hawkswell Kilvington
HLK
Hughes Fowler Carruthers
Postlethwaite Solicitors
Powell Gilbert
Litigation Boutique firm of the year
CANDEY
Charles Lyndon
Corker Binning
Hausfeld & Co
Milberg London
Pallas Partners
Pogust Goodhead
Zaiwalla & Co
Law company (ALSP) of the year
Bexley Beaumont
Excello Law
Gunnercooke
Lawyers On Demand
LegalVision
Radiant Law
Sprintlaw UK
Tapestry Compliance
Law firm of the year: The Independents
Brabners
Clarion
Cripps
Fenwick Elliott
Flint Bishop
Gillespie Macandrew
Lee & Thompson
Lester Aldridge
Michelmores
