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Awards & Accolades

We're grateful to be recognised by many third party organisations for our work, and the kind of firm we are. Here we list some of the awards and accolades that Lewis Silkin has recently received.

2024

  • Shortlisted for ‘Employment Firm of the Year’ at the Legal 500 Northern Powerhouse Awards 2024
  • Carly Mather won ‘Employment Rising Star of the Year’ at the Legal 500 Northern Powerhouse Awards 2024
  • Shortlisted for ESG initiative of the year, Rising Star (Sophie Jamieson) and social mobility firm of the year at the Women, Influence & Power in Law Awards 2024
  • Ranked in The Times Best Law Firms 2024
  • Managing IP’s IPEC firm of the year
  • Managing IP’s UK Copyright firm of the year
  • Managing IP EMEA Awards 2024 - Oliver Fairhurst Shortlisted for Practitioner of the Year, Soft IP (Law Firms)
  • Shortlisted for Future of Legal Service Innovation - Small Size Private Practice and Outstanding Collaboration (with NetDocs) at the Legal Technology Awards 

  • Best Law Firm Office at the Legal Cheek Awards

  • Amy Nevins named by the International Employment Lawyer in its Tomorrow's Leaders 2024  

2023

  • Ranked 4th in Newsweek’s list of Most Loved Workplaces 
  • Anna Bond won the ‘Private Practice Leader of Tomorrow’ category at the International Employment Lawyer Awards 2023
  • Ranked 14th in the Social Mobility Employer Index in 2023
  • Sophie Jamieson won a ‘Highly Commended and Gold Award’ in the Rising Star category at the UK Social Mobility Awards 2023
  • Rachael Andrew shortlisted for a Responsible Business Ambassador award in NI’s Responsible Business Awards 2023
  • Sally Hulston included in The Lawyer’s Hot 100 2023
  • Shortlisted in The Lawyer Awards 2023 for 'Law Firm of the Year' and 'Real Estate Team of the Year'
  • Ranked in The Times Best Law Firms 2023
  • The Interactive Entertainment team won ‘Legal Services Supplier of the year’ at the Independent Game Developers' Association (TIGA) Awards 2023
  • Won ‘Rising Law Firm of the Year’ category at the ALB Hong Kong Law Awards 2023

2022

  • Ranked in The Times Best Law Firms 2022
  • Ranked 6th in Newsweek's list of the UK's Most Loved Workplaces
  • Included in The Times Best Law Firms 2022, where we are also commended as a top three employment practice
  • Winner of Accenture's Outside Counsel Diversity Award
  • Recognised as a Top 20 employer in the Social Mobility Employer Index 2022, improving our rank from 34 to 18.
  • Awarded 'Best Nationwide Advertising & Marketing Law Firm 2022' in the Welsh Enterprise Awards 2022
  • Asian Legal Business for the Law Awards 2022:
    • Immigration Law Firm of the Year - shortlisted
    • Labour and Employment Law Firm of the Year - shortlisted
  • Shortlisted for the Legal Services category in the TIGA Games Industry Awards 2022
2021
  • Ranked in The Times Best Law Firms 2021
  • Recognised as a Top 75 employer in the Social Mobility Employer Index 2021, improving our ranking from 59 to 34
  • Shortlisted for the UK Social Mobility Awards for Community Programme of the Year and for Lucy Lewis as Champion of the Year
2020
  • Recognised as a Top 75 employer in the Social Mobility Employer Index 2020
  • Ian Jeffery won Exceptional Achievement by an Individual at the Managing Partners' Forum Awards 2020
  • Won Best Employee Engagement award at the 2020 Managing Partners’ Forum Awards
  • Won Real Estate Team of the Year 2020 at The Lawyer’s Awards
  • Won Human Resources: Firm of the Year at the Legal 500 UK Awards 2020. We were also shortlisted for Real Estate Team of the Year and Real Estate Retail Specialist Team of the Year
  • Michael Burd, James Davies and Toni Lorenzo were named as elite thought leaders for employment in the United Kingdom in the 2020 edition of WWL: Thought Leaders – Global Elite. Lewis Silkin is the only firm in the world with three ranked employment lawyers
  • Our Hong Kong team won Immigration Firm of the Year 2020 award at the Macallan ALB (Asian Legal Business) Hong Kong Law Awards for the third year running. We were also shortlisted for three other awards:
    • Labour and Employment Law Firm of the Year
    • Rising Law Firm of the Year
    • Catherine Leung is shortlisted for Young Lawyer of the Year
  • Richard Miskella was shortlisted for Male Diversity Champion of the Year and Stephanie Kay was shortlisted for Rising Star – Private Practice Lawyer of the Year at the Women in Law Awards 2020
  • Colin Leckey won Client Choice 2020 award at Lexology’s Client Choice Awards. He was the only employment lawyer in the UK to be recognised with this award
2019
  • Richard Miskella, our joint managing partner, won Lawyer of the Year at the Legal Business Awards 2019
  • Michael Burd, Lewis Silkin’s Chair, won Who’s Who Legal as the Global Labour & Employment Lawyer of the Year for 2019
  • Won Global Labour, Employment and Benefits Law Firm of the Year 2019 at the Who’s Who Legal awards for the second consecutive year
  • Madeleine Jephcott won the PSL/Knowledge award at the Lexis Nexis Legal Awards 2019 for spearheading Lewis Silkin’s Future of Work initiative
  • Karen Baxter was shortlisted for ‘Most inspiring Leader of the Year’ at the This Can Happen Awards 2019, celebrating excellence in workplace mental health
  • Our Hong Kong team were shortlisted for four awards in the Macallan ALB (Asian Legal Business) Hong Kong Law Awards 2019
  • Lewis Silkin’s Worksphere service won the Training Innovation award at Legal Week’s Innovation Awards 2019 for its campaign #aLastingChange and the development of bespoke anti-sexual harassment and bullying training sessions
  • Shortlisted for Employment, Pensions and Incentives Litigation Team of the Year at the Legal Week Commercial Litigation and Arbitration Awards 2019
  • Shortlisted for the Real Estate Team of the Year 2019 at The Lawyer Awards
  • Rockhopper won Best Innovation at the 2018 Working Families Best Practice Awards

 
You can read more about Lewis Silkin in our announcements as they happen in the Press release section.

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