Best community engagement – 2016

2016 winner A&L Goodbody As part of their Step Up community involvement programme, A&L Goodbody are focusing on a long term project to improve declining levels of literacy among young people in local disadvantaged communities. Since 2013, the firm has worked...

Exceptional achievement by a firm – 2016

2016 winner Irwin Mitchell The Irwin Mitchell Group counts among the UK’s leading legal services providers. It has been at the vanguard of the legal profession in taking advantage of deregulation, holding eight Alternative Business Structure licences – more than any...

Exceptional achievement by an individual – 2016

2016 winner Ian Powell (PwC) This year’s award has gone to a person who has been prepared to act in accordance with the strong values they have set, in particular around always taking personal responsibility. Ian Powell understands how important it is to get the...

Best strategic leadership – 2016

2016 winner RPC “If you keep your people happy, then your clients will be happy too”. Led by a Managing Partner, who has no office, and the same desk as everyone else who works in this open plan office, RPC achieved outstanding financial results in 2015, and has...

Mould-breaking firm – 2016

2016 winner LOD (Lawyers On Demand) Lawyers on Demand has long been a mould-breaker, a now much-copied example of a City law firm disrupting its own business model to pioneer a new way to serve existing clients and attract new ones. What impressed the judges, however,...