Submission Criteria

The 2020 Legal Business Awards will comprise 25 categories and are open to everyone, including large international firms operating in multiple jurisdictions, boutique law firms, alternative legal services providers, in-house teams, chambers or a regional/offshore practice in the UK.

For the practice area awards, please only submit matters that were handled by UK-based lawyers – either offshore or onshore – during 2019.

Details of the criteria for each category can be found here, as well as descriptions of previous winners and shortlisted firms. For a full list of last year’s winners, click here.

Please ensure submissions include:

Partner contact and email address
Press contact and email address
Body text (max 600 words) explaining how you have met the specific criteria of the chosen award category
Client testimony where appropriate
We will assume that all information supplied to us may be published unless you indicate clearly otherwise.

Please feel free to submit in as many categories as you wish. Entries can be made here.

The closing date for nominations is Friday 1 November 2019

A large and hugely experienced editorial team handles the shortlisting process, headed up by our editor-in-chief Alex Novarese, managing editor Mark McAteer, and chairman of Legal Business, John Pritchard.

Shortlisted firms will be personally notified in December and the full shortlist will not be published anywhere prior to the event. The winners will be selected from the shortlists by our own judging panel, comprising the Legal Business editorial team, plus leading general counsel and industry consultants.

For general enquiries relating to the submission process, please contact Mark McAteer mark.mcateer@legalease.co.uk.

To download a PDF version of the 2020 guidelines click here.