LexisNexis Legal Awards 2025 shortlist announced

The shortlist for the LexisNexis Legal Awards 2025 has been announced.

The LexisNexis Legal Awards will be held at the Park Plaza Riverbank on 13 March 2025. You can book your table here.

The shortlist is:

International Team of the Year

IMD Solicitors

Mountfitchet Group

Persionio

Spencer West

Tapestry Compliance

Zodia Custody

Business Development Award

5 Essex Chambers

Devereux Chambers

HAB Law

Pepperells Solicitors

RPC

Spencer West

Unit Chambers

Weightmans

Pro Bono Award

Duncan Lewis Solicitors

End-To-End Housing Clinic (Clifford Chance, Cooley, and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom)

HAB Law 

Impact 100

Not Beyond Redemption

Osborne Clarke

Travers Smith

Working Families

Legal Supplier Innovation Award

BigHand

Courtney Legal

Justice for Sisters, Dr Naheed Ghauri

Luminance

ParentAssess

The Carvalho Consultancy (TCC)

Legal Services Innovation Award

Acuity Law
BCG

Culver Law

HAB Law

Lenovo

Maternity Action

Personio Legal Team

The Divorce Surgery

Diversity and Inclusion Award

7BR

Bates Wells

Christina Warner, 33 Bedford Row

HAB Law

IMD Solicitors

John Dove, Speed Mooting and Charterhouse Chambers

Mani Sigh Basi, 4pb

Womble Bond Dickinson

Wellbeing Award

Birkett Long

Covington and Burling

Glaisyers ETL

IMD Solicitors

RPC

Setfords

Stephens Scown

Unit Chambers

Deal of the Year

Morrison Foerster, Investment in Wayve Technologies

RPC, MOH Nippon

RPC, Womens Professional Leagues (WPLL)

Sidley Austin, Sunac China Holdings

Legal Personality of the Year

Jason Beer KC, 5 Essex Chambers

Annmarie Carvalho, The Carvalho Consultancy

Bilal Farooq, Greystone Solicitors

Basharat Hussain, Hussain Solicitors

Stephen Kinsella, Law for Change

Ollie Persey, Garden Court Chambers

John Schorah, Weightmans

Christina Warner, 33 Bedford Row

Lifetime Contribution Award

To be announced on the night

In-House Team of the Year

Capgemini UK

EIR

KONE

KX Legal

Lenovo

PepsiCo UK

UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA)

The Halsbury Award for Rule of Law

English-Ukrainian Rule of Law Dictionary (Birmingham Law School)

Essex Law Clinic (University of Essex)

Face Equality International (Reed Smith, Bank of America & Amazon)

Gaza Hostages Advocacy (Adam Wagner, Doughty Street Chambers & Adam Rose, Mishcon de Reya)

LGBTQ+ Law Clinic CIC

School Inclusion Project (Garden Court Chambers, Communities Empowerment Network, Coram Children’s Legal Centre & Law centres Network)

Therium

Law Firm of the Year

Cripps

Hägen Wolf

Hussain Solicitors

IMD Solicitors

Keystone Law

Olliers Solicitors

Pepperells Solicitors

Stephens Scown

Chambers of the Year

4 New Square Chambers

5 Essex Chambers

7BR

11KBW

Atkin Chambers

Crown Chambers

New Park Court Chambers

Quadrant Chambers

Knowledge Management Award

Carpmaels & Ransford

Penningtons Manches Cooper

RPC

Stewarts

White & Case

Sustainability Award

Bates Wells

RPC

Sharpe Pritchard

Stephens Scown

Weightmans

Employment Law Team of the Year

7BR

11KBW

Devereux Chambers

Foot Anstey

Leigh Day

Protect

Spencer Shaw Solicitors

Winckworth Sherwood

Dispute Resolution Award

Devonshires Solicitors

Hägen Wolf

RLK Solicitors

Thomas Mansfield Solicitors

Case of the Year

11KBW, 39 Essex Chambers, 4 Pump Court, Anthony Gold Solicitors, Bar Council, Capsticks, Devereux Chambers, Five Paper, Landmark Chambers, Law Society of England and Wales, McDermott Smith Law, Stewarts, Williams Powell, Quadrant Chambers, Ropewalk Chambers, Unity Street Chambers (Churchill v Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council (Law Society intervening) [2023] EWCA Civ 1416)

11KBW, Blackstone Chambers, Duncan Lewis Solicitors, Matrix Chambers (R (on the application of A (Syria) and others) (Cross) v Secretary of State [2023] UKSC 42)

11KBW, Government Legal Department, Harrison Grant Ring, Lewis Silkin, Old Square Chambers (R (on the application of Independent Workers Union of Great Britain) v Central Arbitration Committee (Roofoods Ltd t/a Deliveroo, interested party) [2023] UKSC 43)

Cornerstone Barristers, Garden Court Chambers and Leigh Day Solicitors (Finch v Surrey County Council [2024] UKSC 20)

Devereux Chambers and Irwin Mitchell Solicitors (TUI UK Ltd v Griffiths [2023] UKSC 48)

Fountain Court Chambers, Government Legal Department, Three New Square, Williams Powell (Thaler v Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks [2023] UKSC 49)

Queen Elizabeth Building, Fourteen, Keystone Law and Mishcon de Reya (Re A and B (schedule 1: arbitral award: appeal [2024] EWHC 778 (Fam))

Costs Law Team of the Year

Bolt Burdon Kemp

Clarion

DWF Costs

Eversheds Sutherland

Gatehouse Chambers

Glaisyers ETL

Horwich Farrelly

Keoghs