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 27 categories, the ceremony will celebrate the very best of the legal industry over the past year.
In 2022, Eversheds Sutherland won the top prize for Law firm of the year, while other key awards went to Addleshaw Goddard for City firm of the year, and to 3 Verulam Buildings for Chambers of the year.
The Lawyer Awards 2023 shortlist: in full
Law firm of the year
To be revealed at a later date.
Barrister of the year
Jenni Richards KC, 39 Essex Chambers
Kate Grange KC, 39 Essex Chambers
Tim Otty KC, Blackstone Chambers
Adam Lewis KC, Blackstone Chambers
Tom Little KC, Deka Chambers
Jonathan Selby KC, Keating Chambers
Andrew Short KC, Outer Temple Chambers
Felicity Toube KC, South Square
Best client service innovation
DAC Beachcroft and Aviva
DLA Piper
DWF Law
Eversheds Sutherland
Gowling WLG
Mills & Reeve
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe
Osborne Clarke Solutions and Taylor Wimpey (joint submission)
Pinsent Masons
Best talent and inclusion initiative
Bird & Bird
Burgess Mee Family Law
Flex Legal
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Keoghs
O Shaped Lawyer
Osborne Clarke
Pinsent Masons
Weil Gotshal & Manges
Best technology product
Avvoka
Disco
Legl
Luminance Technologies
Relativity
Shieldpay
Black Lawyers Matter (by The Stephen James Partnership)
Trialview
Boutique firm of the year
Davitt Jones Bould
Fragomen
GQ|Littler
Mantle Law
Northridge Law
Postlethwaite Solicitors
Preston Turnbull
Tapestry Compliance
The Dental Law Partnership
Chambers of the year
3 Verulam Buildings
39 Essex Chambers
42 Bedford Row Barristers
Brick Court Chambers
Essex Court Chambers
Monckton Chambers
Old Square Chambers
Radcliffe Chambers
Twenty Essex
City firm of the year, sponsored by Saunderson House
Latham & Watkins
Macfarlanes
Morgan Lewis & Bockius
Paul Hastings
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan
Competition and regulatory team of the year
Addleshaw Goddard
Baker McKenzie
Dentons and BEIS/ESNZ (joint submission)
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Morgan Lewis & Bockius
TLT and Linklaters (joint submission)
Willkie Farr & Gallagher
Corporate team of the year
Allen & Overy
Clifford Chance
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Herbert Smith Freehills
Mayer Brown
Pinsent Masons
Slaughter and May
Taylor Wessing
Energy and infrastructure team of the year
Ashurst
Covington & Burling
Dentons and BEIS/ESNZ (joint submission)
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Herbert Smith Freehills
Shakespeare Martineau
Slaughter and May
Stephenson Harwood
Womble Bond Dickinson
Finance team of the year
Ashurst
Baker McKenzie
Cahill Gordon & Reindel
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Herbert Smith Freehills
Latham & Watkins
McDermott Will & Emery
Paul Hastings
Proskauer Rose
Funds team of the year
Ashurst
Burges Salmon
CMS
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Proskauer Rose
Stephenson Harwood
Travers Smith
General counsel of the year
Sapan Gupta, group general counsel, ArcelorMittal
Spencer Collins, chief legal officer, Arm
Solomon Osagie, general counsel, Cashplus Bank
Amanda Gerrity, general counsel, Octopus Energy
James Ford, group general counsel, GSK
John O’Reilly, group general counsel, company secretary and group compliance officer, Kodak Alaris
Nadia Hoosen-Webber, chief legal officer and group company secretary, OneWeb
Maryam Ziarati McLoughlin, general counsel, Paddle
In-house banking and financial services team of the year
AXA UK
Carlyle
Cashplus
Funding Circle
Liberis
London Stock Exchange
RSA Insurance Group
The Financial Ombudsman Service
WTW
In-house commerce and industry team of the year
Britvic
Octopus Energy
Dura-Line
GSK
Marshalls
Mercedes-Benz
BioNTech SE
Unilever
Vodafone
Consumers’ Association (Which?)
In-house technology, media and sport team of the year
AEG
Arm
Birmingham Organising Committee for the 2022 Commonwealth Games
FIFA
Informa
ITV
OneWeb
TravelPerk
Virgin Media O2
Law company of the year
Aria Grace Law
Bexley Beaumont
Deloitte Legal
Excello Law
Factor
Howlett Brown
LegalVision
LOD
Law firm of the year: The Independents
Boodle Hatfield
Brandsmiths
Clarion
Lee & Thompson
Lester Aldridge
Lodders Solicitors
Nelsons
Sharpe Pritchard
Stevens & Bolton
Legal operations team of the year
Chanel
Santander UK and Konexo (joint submission)
EY Legal Function Consulting
Health and Social Care Public Inquiry Team, Government Legal DepartmentVodafone
Litigation boutique firm of the year
Candey
Charles Lyndon
Keller Postman UK
Milberg London
Pogust Goodhead
Tenet
Zaiwalla & Co
Litigation team of the year, sponsored by Arthur J Gallagher
Addleshaw Goddard
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner
CMS
Forsters
Greenberg Traurig
Hogan Lovells
Macfarlanes
Simmons & Simmons
Taylor Wessing
Most innovative use of technology
Addleshaw Goddard
Bird & Bird
Clyde & Co
Deloitte Legal
DWF Law
Fragomen
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Macfarlanes
Vodafone
Private equity team of the year
CMS
Eversheds Sutherland
Hill Dickinson
Latham & Watkins
McDermott Will & Emery
Proskauer Rose
Pro bono initiative of the year
Joint Submission: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld; Allen & Overy; Ashurst, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, Clyde & Co, Debevoise & Plimpton, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Eversheds Sutherland, Hogan Lovells International, Mayer Brown International, Orrick, Reed Smith, Ropes & Gray, and Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom (UK)
Ashurst
Covington & Burling
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Joint submission: Travers Smith, Reed Smith, Hogan Lovells, Latham & Watkins, Slaughter and May, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Debevoise & Plimpton, DLA Piper and Eversheds Sutherland
Joint Submission: Latham & Watkins, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, Charles Russell Speechlys, Debevoise & Plimpton, Dechert, Linklaters, Taylor Wessing and White & Case
Mishcon de Reya
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan
Therium Capital Management
Real estate team of the year
Ashurst
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner
Charles Russell Speechlys
CMS
Eversheds Sutherland
Farrer & Co and Lewis Silkin (joint submission)
Herbert Smith Freehills
Macfarlanes
Taylor Wessing
Restructuring team of the year
Allen & Overy
Burges Salmon
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Greenberg Traurig
Joseph Hage Aaronson
Kirkland & Ellis
Pinsent Masons
Weil Gotshal & Manges
Sustainability Initiative
Burges Salmon
Brabners
DLA Piper
Fieldfisher
Funding Circle
Norton Rose Fulbright
TLT
Vodafone
