Who won what: revealed 🏆
Last night, the legal community gathered to honour the achievements of the nation’s top trainee-rated firms and chambers at the annual Legal Cheek Awards ceremony.
This year’s Legal Cheek Awards, sponsored by BARBRI and BPP University Law School, was held at the Battlebridge Suite of Kings Place London.
More than 250 guests from the UK’s premier law firms and barristers’ chambers attended the much-anticipated ceremony, alongside social media influencers and prominent industry figures.
After enjoying some fizz and canapés, Victoria Cromwell, BARBRI’s Head of New Business, and Caroline Lister, Director of Client Partnerships at BPP, delivered welcome addresses.
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Legal Cheek‘s Sophie Dillon and Saad Khalil, the hosts of this year’s awards, were joined by award sponsors, as well as Legal Cheek student campus ambassadors and staff, to reveal the winners across the 25 categories featured in this year’s ceremony.
The winners were determined by the results of our annual trainee and junior lawyer and barrister surveys, which included responses from over 2,000 lawyers across the country.
So who won what? Read on to find out…
Best law firm for training 2024: Mayer Brown
Highly commended: Accutrainee, Addleshaw Goddard, BCLP, Forsters, Herbert Smith Freehills, Macfarlanes, Pinsent Masons, Slaughter and May, Travers Smith
Best law firm for quality of work 2024: Hogan Lovells
Highly commended: Akin, Bates Wells, Cooley, Forsters, Goodwin Procter, Jones Day, Latham & Watkins, Osborne Clarke, Ropes & Gray, Willkie Farr & Gallagher
Best law firm for peer support 2024: Shoosmiths
Highly commended: Fieldfisher, Gibson Dunn, Hill Dickinson, Lewis Silkin, Osborne Clarke, RPC, Stephenson Harwood, Taylor Wessing, Withers
Best law firm for partner approachability 2024: Kennedys
Highly commended: Brabners, Bristows, Dentons, Eversheds Sutherland, Howard Kennedy, Katten Muchin Rosenman, Shoosmiths, Squire Patton Boggs, Trowers & Hamlins
Best law firm for work/life balance 2024: Clyde & Co
Highly commended: Ashfords, Cripps, Gateley, Mills & Reeve, RWK Goodman, Russell-Cooke, Wedlake Bell, Weightmans, Winckworth Sherwood
Best law firm for legal tech 2024: Addleshaw Goddard
Highly commended: Allen & Overy, Ashurst, Burges Salmon, CMS, Dentons, Fletchers Solicitors, Penningtons Manches Cooper, TLT, Travers Smith
Best law firm for perks 2024: Weil Gotshal & Manges
Highly commended: Clifford Chance, Cooley, Kirkland & Ellis, Milbank, Morrison Foerster, Sidley Austin, White & Case, Willkie Farr & Gallagher
Best law firm office 2024: Lewis Silkin
Highly commended: Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, Cooley, Gowling WLG, Greenberg Traurig, K&L Gates, Kingsley Napley, Mishcon de Reya, Morrison Foerster, Paul Hastings, Vinson & Elkins
Best law firm for WFH 2024: TLT
Highly commended: Addleshaw Goddard, Akin, Allen & Overy, Bevan Brittan, Michelmores, Osborne Clarke, Shakespeare Martineau, Walker Morris, Willkie Farr & Gallagher
Best law firm for eco-friendliness 2024: Bates Wells
Highly commended: Burges Salmon, Charles Russell Speechlys, Forsters, Lewis Silkin, Michelmores, Orrick, Osborne Clarke, TLT, Travers Smith
Best law firm for international secondments 2024: White & Case
Highly commended: Allen & Overy, Clifford Chance, HFW, Norton Rose Fulbright, Watson Farley & Williams
Best law firm for client secondments 2024: DWF
Highly commended: Bird & Bird, CMS, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Linklaters, Taylor Wessing.
Most admired law firm 2024: Latham & Watkins
Highly commended: Addleshaw Goddard, Allen & Overy, Bird & Bird, Burges Salmon, Clifford Chance, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Herbert Smith Freehills, Kirkland & Ellis, Osborne Clarke, Slaughter and May
The Legal Cheek firm of the year 2024: Osborne Clarke
Highly commended: Burges Salmon, Cooley, Farrer & Co, Forsters, Howard Kennedy, Lewis Silkin, Shoosmiths, TLT, Willkie Farr & Gallagher
Best use of social media 2024: Mary-Grace Olu (TikTok)
Highly commended: Founder of ‘It’s All Hearsay’, Megan Hulme (Instagram); Mia Siddique aka ‘Legally Possible’, (Instagram); Henry Nelson-Case, ‘that corporate lawyer’ (TikTok); The CMS accounts for graduates, (Instagram and TikTok); Ali Obeid (TikTok); Harry ter Haar aka “James Somerset” (TikTok)
The winner of this category was decided by an independent judging panel, made up of Robbie Mullett (Made in Chelsea star and future trainee City solicitor), Jordan Sanga (Big Brother winner for 2023 and former lawyer), and Aishah Hussain (editor at Law Middle East and former Legal Cheek features editor).
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Best Legal Cheek Journal contribution 2024: Lauren Slade – How election legislation has failed the UK’s visually-impaired voters
Highly commended: Access to justice: how can we do more? by law student Sophia McKenna; Could you be fired by a robot – and would UK anti-discrimination law protect you? by law graduate and future trainee solicitor Puja Patel; Non-fatal strangulation and suffocation: why was this new offence necessary and what has been its impact? by English graduate and aspiring barrister Lucy Sutton; Competition chronicles: Microsoft vs the CMA and FTC by law student and aspiring commercial solicitor Dara Adefemi; Failure to prevent fraud and what it means for businesses by aspiring barrister Shifra Moriarty; Legal Takeaway: Who’s who for Deliveroo? by aspiring solicitor Joshua Masson
The winner of this category was decided by an independent judging panel, made up of The Right Hon Lord Burrows (Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom), I. Stephanie Boyce (former President of the Law Society of England and Wales), and Suzi Ring (Legal Correspondent at the Financial Times).
Legal Cheek Campus Ambassador of the Year 2024: Alexandra Shuck
Highly commended: Shannah McKenna, Sophia McKenna and Manik Sibal, Cardiff University; Vaughan Temiloluwa Oluwafemi, University of Dundee; Mariella Vildoso, Ulster University.
Best chambers for training 2024: Crown Office Chambers
Highly commended: 12 King’s Bench Walk, 2TG, 3VB, 4 Stone Buildings, 5 Stone Buildings, 7KBW, Blackstone Chambers, Falcon Chambers, Fountain Court Chambers, Gatehouse Chambers, Keating Chambers, Littleton Chambers, Pump Court Tax Chambers, Quadrant Chambers, Ten Old Square, XXIV Old Buildings
Best chambers for quality of work 2024: Monckton Chambers
Highly commended: 11KBW, 3 Hare Court, 4 Pump Court, 4 Stone Buildings, 5 Essex Chambers, 5 Stone Buildings, 7KBW, Blackstone Chambers, Brick Court Chambers, Cornerstone Barristers, Crown Office Chambers, Devereux Chambers, Exchange Chambers, Falcon Chambers, Fountain Court Chambers, Keating Chambers, Kings Chambers, Littleton Chambers, New Square Chambers, No5 Chambers, Pump Court Tax Chambers, Quadrant Chambers, Radcliffe Chambers, Serle Court, South Square, Wilberforce Chambers, XXIV Old Buildings
Best chambers for colleague supportiveness 2024: Henderson Chambers
Highly commended: 11KBW, 4 Stone Buildings, 5 Essex Chambers, 7KBW, Blackstone Chambers, Crown Office Chambers, Falcon Chambers, Gatehouse Chambers, Hailsham Chambers, Littleton Chambers, Outer Temple Chambers, Quadrant Chambers, Selborne Chambers, Tanfield Chambers, Ten Old Square, XXIV Old Buildings
Best chambers for facilities 2024: Gatehouse Chambers
Highly commended: 39 Essex Chambers, 4 New Square Chambers, 7BR, Blackstone Chambers, Crown Office Chambers, Fountain Court Chambers, Gray’s Inn Tax Chambers, Keating Chambers
Best chambers for work/life balance 2024: Falcon Chambers
Highly commended: Keating Chambers, Serle Court, Twenty Essex, XXIV Old Buildings
Best chambers for social life 2024: Selborne Chambers
Highly commended: Blackstone Chambers, Crown Office Chambers, Falcon Chambers, Gatehouse Chambers, Gough Square Chambers, Keating Chambers, Quadrant Chambers, Radcliffe Chambers, XXIV Old Buildings
Best chambers for legal tech 2024: 39 Essex Chambers
Highly commended: 3PB, 42BR Barristers, Blackstone Chambers, Crown Office Chambers, Fountain Court Chambers, Gray’s Inn Tax Chambers, Keating Chambers, Monckton Chambers, Pump Court Tax Chambers, Serjeants’ Inn Chambers, Wilberforce Chambers
The Legal Cheek chambers of the year 2024: Keating Chambers
Highly commended: 11KBW, 39 Essex Chambers, Blackstone Chambers, Crown Office Chambers, Falcon Chambers, Fountain Court Chambers, Gatehouse Chambers, Littleton Chambers, XXIV Old Buildings