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Shortlist 2026

Best Internal Support Network of the Year

A&O Shearman
E.ON UK
Fletchers Solicitors
Freeths
Shoosmiths
Womble Bond Dickinson

Best Law Firm Advisory Team: Business and Human Rights

Debevoise & Plimpton
Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer
Norton Rose Fulbright
Olaniwun Ajayi UK
Slaughter and May
White & Case

Best Law Firm Advisory Team: Clean Energy

A&O Shearman
Clifford Chance
CMS
Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer
Linklaters
Norton Rose Fulbright
Orrick
Pinsent Masons
TLT
Watson Farley & Williams

Best Law Firm Advisory Team: Environmental Protection

A&O Shearman
Leigh Day
Norton Rose Fulbright
Pogust Goodhead

Best Law Firm Advisory Team: ESG Regulatory and Compliance

A&O Shearman
Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer
Hogan Lovells
Linklaters
Norton Rose Fulbright
RPC
Travers Smith
Weil Gotshal & Manges
White & Case

Best Law Firm Advisory Team: Sustainable Finance

A&O Shearman
DLA Piper
Olaniwun Ajayi UK
Paul Hastings
Proskauer Rose
Womble Bond Dickinson

DE&I: Law Firm Initiative of the Year

Dentons
Freeths
Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer
Leigh Day
Meritas
Pinsent Masons
Womble Bond Dickinson

DE&I: Private Practice Champion of the Year

Richard Fisk, Addleshaw Goddard
Robert Andrews, Mewburn Ellis
Beth Marshall, Murgitroyd
Jane Freeman, Womble Bond Dickinson

DE&I: Rising Star of the Year

Matthew York, A&O Shearman
Shaheen Mamun, Black Antelope Law
Alexandra Isenegger, Linkilaw Solicitors
Nazmin Akthar, Womble Bond Dickinson

Disability/Neurodiversity: Best Initiative of the Year

The Bar Council
BCLP
The Family Justice Council
Family Law in Partnership
Martin Searle Solicitors
Stephenson Harwood

Disability/Neurodiversity: Champion of the Year

Lindsay Devey, E.ON UK
Emma Hamnett, Fletchers Solicitors
Reena Parmar, Freshfields
Emma Dennis, Gowling WLG

Environmental/Sustainability: Best Initiative of the Year

DLA Piper
E.ON UK
Gowling WLG
HFW
KPMG Law
Legal Charter 1.5
RPC
Taylor Wessing
Travers Smith

Environmental/Sustainability: Champion of the Year

Amanda Carpenter, Achill Legal
Dan Cooper, BCLP
John Court, HFW
Eleanor Maciver, Mewburn Ellis
Max Finney, Shoosmiths
Claire Rainsford, Taylor Wessing
Paul Mullis, Travers Smith
Diana Lupa, Trowers & Hamlins
Maria O’Loan, Tughans

ESG: Bar Champion of the Year

Barbara Mills KC, 4PB
Creanna Dodson, Church Court Chambers
Rachel Crasnow KC, Cloisters
Philip Ahlquist, Fountain Court

ESG: Bar Initiative of the Year

36 Family
Fountain Court
Garden Court Chambers

ESG: Client Partner of the Year

Laura Houët, CMS
Helen Bowdren, Dentons
Sam Eastwood, Mayer Brown
Stuart Neely, Norton Rose Fulbright
Ciara Cullen, RPC
Sarah Ellington, Watson Farley & Williams

ESG: Client Service Firm of the Year

Clifford Chance
DLA Piper
Eversheds Sutherland
Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer
Latham & Watkins
Mayer Brown
Norton Rose Fulbright
Reed Smith

ESG: In-house Champion of the Year

Kirin Kalsi, E.ON UK
Sujata Kukreja, Expereo
Rebecca Danby, Haleon
Melanie Martin, Kita
Alexandra Hansmeyer, LiveMore Mortgages
Allison Sandle, Low Carbon Contracts
Stephanie Pagni, Monzo
Kendall Langford, Patron Capital

ESG: In-house Initiative of the Year

Centrica
E.ON UK
Expereo
Haleon
PepsiCo
The Ocean Cleanup
Vodafone

ESG: Law Firm Initiative of the Year

CMS
Foot Anstey
Hartley Law
Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer
London Law Collective
Maples Teesdale
RPC
Shoosmiths
Womble Bond Dickinson

ESG: Private Practice Champion of the Year

Daniel Burnand, BCLP
Silke Goldberg, Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer
Adrian Walker, Hogan Lovells
Rachel Barrett, Linklaters
Kelly Thomson, RPC
Chris Pritchett, Shoosmiths
Moira Thompson Oliver, Slaughter and May
Sally Dallow, Womble Bond Dickinson

Ethnicity: Best Initiative of the Year

Legal Core
Olaniwun Ajayi UK
Shoosmiths
Stuart Miller Solicitors

Green Ambassador of the Year

David Hunter, Bates Wells
Ross Fairley, Burges Salmon
Andreas Gunst, DLA Piper
Natasha Luther-Jones, DLA Piper
Ben Stansfield, Gowling WLG
Silke Goldberg, Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer
Rita Hunter, Hogan Lovells
Chris Staples, Linklaters
Rachel Richardson, Macfarlanes
Caroline May, Norton Rose Fulbright
Maria Connolly, TLT
John Buttanshaw, Travers Smith

LGBTQ+: Champion of the Year

Alastair Livesey and Josh Little, A&O Shearman
Jude Copeland, Cleaver Fulton Rankin
Reece Hobson-Adams, Fletchers Solicitors
Oscar Davies, Garden Court Chambers
Jacqui Rhule-Dagher, Hogan Lovells
Clare Fielding, Town Legal

Mental Health & Wellbeing Initiative of the Year

Fieldfisher
Fletchers Solicitors
General Counsel Wellbeing Network
Kennedys

Pro bono Initiative of the Year

3VB
Cleary Gottlieb
Clyde & Co, Dechert, Eversheds Sutherland and Squire Patton Boggs
Freshfields
Mayer Brown and Matthew Parfitt, Erskine Chambers
Ropes & Gray

Social Mobility: Initiative of the Year

A&O Shearman
Addleshaw Goddard
BCLP
Birketts
In-House Legal Solutions
KPMG Law
Michelmores
Trowers & Hamlins

Women in Law: Best Initiative of the Year

Fletchers Solicitors
Martin Searle Solicitors
Mishcon de Reya
SteelRose Legal

Women in Law: Champion of the Year

Mary Prior KC, 36 Crime
Wei Ling Wong-Morrow, Cantor Fitzgerald
Katy Thorne KC, Doughty Street Chambers
Lorna Bailey, Fletchers Solicitors
Leigh-Ann Mulcahy KC, Fountain Court Chambers
Fran Salisbury, Mewburn Ellis
Lisa Ardley-Price, NatWest
Sonia Tolaney KC, One Essex Court