Award Categories 2024

Eligibility: This award is open to any apprentice solicitor working in a firm or in-house based in the North of England. You may only submit one entry per firm or organisation.

Entries must demonstrate evidence of the following:

• Excellent legal skills
• Significant development during apprenticeship
• Consistently good performance in the academic element of the apprenticeship
• Client service skills
• Initiative
• Contribution to the business

Eligibility: This award is open to any trainee Solicitor (including in-house) working in a firm based in the North of England. 

Entries must demonstrate evidence of the following:

•  Excellent legal skills
• Significant development during training (this covers training contract period and any previous paralegal experience)
• Client service skills
• Initiative
• Contribution to the business

Eligibility: This award is open to any lawyer (Solicitor/ Barrister/ Chartered Legal Executive, including in-house lawyers) who is less than 7 years PQE.

Entries must demonstrate evidence of the following:

• Excellent legal skills
• Ability to contribute to the future management and growth of an organisation
• Outstanding career development
• Client service skills
• Initiative
• Significant impact in light of time in practice

Eligibility: This award is open to any lawyer (Solicitor, Barrister or Chartered Legal Executive, including in-house lawyers) practising in the North of England. If you wish to submit more than one entry per firm/Chambers/Organisation, please contact us..

Entries must demonstrate evidence of the following:

• Outstanding legal skills
• Business development skills
• Leadership
• Innovation and enterprise
• Employee development skills
• Client satisfaction

Eligibility:   This award is open to any law teacher working in a higher education institution in the North of England. There is no restriction on the number of teachers that may be nominated by an institution.

Entries must demonstrate evidence of the following:

• Innovative teaching practices
• Ability to enhance student learning experience through scholarly activities
• Effective communication skills
• Student engagement skills
• Interest in student development
• Student satisfaction

Eligibility: This award is open to any law firm based in the North of England with 5 partners (or directors) or less.

Entries must demonstrate evidence of the following (all criteria will be measured in the context of the work sectors within which the firm operates):

•  Excellence in delivery of legal services
• Outstanding business performance in areas such as client service, financial performance, strategy and work winning
• Development of staff
• CSR
• Business progress and improvement over the year

Eligibility: This award is open to any law firm based in the North of England with 6 partners (or directors) or more.

Entries must demonstrate evidence of the following (all criteria will be measured in the context of the work sectors within which the firm operates):

• Excellence in delivery of legal services
• Outstanding business performance in areas such as client service, financial performance, strategy and work winning
• Development of staff
• CSR
• Business progress and improvement over the year

Eligibility: This award is open to any in house legal department based in the North of England.

Entries must demonstrate evidence of the following:

• Legal expertise
• Team working
• Employee development
• Strategic contribution to the business
• Innovative practice

Eligibility: This award is open to anyone working for a legal services provider (law firm, barrister’s chambers or in-house team) in the North of England in the following specialisms: law firm management, marketing, HR, business development, IT, finance, clerking or compliance. Only one entry per firm/ Chambers/ Organisation.

Entries must demonstrate evidence of the following:

• Outstanding  skills in area of specialism
• Contribution to the success of the organisation
• Innovation and enterprise
• Leadership
• Strategic thinking

Eligibility: This award is open to any individual or organisation who can demonstrate delivery of pro bono legal advice or of a community initiative in the North of England.

Entries must demonstrate evidence of the following:

• Free delivery of legal service or promotion of community interest in relation to legal rights
• Promotion of the public interest
• Quality in delivery of pro bono work/ community initiative
• Enterprise and Initiative

This award is open to individuals working in the legal sector in the North of England who have shown significant achievement over many years and made an outstanding contribution to the legal profession or organisation of which they are part.

For this category the judging panel will be looking for demonstrations of superior working in the following areas:

• Significant achievement over many years
• Strategic development
• Leadership
• Innovation and enterprise
• Drive and determination
• Excellence in the delivery of legal service