CAMBRIDGESHIRE LAW SOCIETY LEGAL EXCELLENCE AWARDS 2023

★ In-House Team of the Year

• With reference to a specific project, explain how your team has made a significant contribution to your business.

• How has your team demonstrated technical legal excellence?

• How has your team provided excellent client service in everything you do?

• How has your team achieved profitable growth?

• How have you demonstrated excellence in the past year?

★ Litigation Team of the Year

• This category is open to any litigation or dispute resolution teams, whether they undertake general commercial litigation work, for example, or undertake specialist work. For example, this may include (but is not limited to), injury litigation, commercial litigation, construction, contentious trusts and probate, public sector and regulatory work.

• With reference to a specific client matter, explain how your team has made a significant contribution to your firm.

• How has your team demonstrated technical legal excellence?

• How has your team provided excellent client service in everything you do?

• How has your team achieved profitable growth?

★ Intellectual Property / IT Law Team of the Year*

• With reference to a specific client matter, explain how your team has made a significant contribution to your business.

• How has your team demonstrated technical legal excellence?

• How has your team provided excellent client service in everything you do?

• How has your team achieved profitable growth?

• How have you demonstrated excellence in the past year?

*Intellectual Property / IT (Legal) teams include specialist trade mark and/or patent attorney teams at individual firms, or as part of a larger firm. This also extends to intellectual property teams that may cover contentious and/or transactional work standalone or crossdivision in their firms. IT specifically relates to IT contract work (including disputes) and is not intended to mean internal IT support.

★ Criminal Law Team of the Year

• With reference to a specific client matter, explain how your team has made a significant contribution (to your firm where appropriate).

• How has your team demonstrated technical legal excellence?

• How has your team provided excellent client service in everything you do?

• How has your team achieve profitable growth (where relevant)?

• How have you demonstrated excellent in the past year?

Firm Awards

★ Firm of the Year#

• What has set your firm apart from competitors as an excellent legal business? Have you taken any particular steps or implemented any strategies that have enabled your firm to thrive in the period post-Covid?

• Explain how your firm has achieved sustainable profitable growth.

• Identify the most important factor in your firm’s success

• How has your firm promoted or encouraged equality, diversity and inclusion? This should be more than implementing a top-level EDI policy. Have you introduced any measures to address matters which can assist in reducing or preventing difficulties individuals may experience, that contributes to the importance of EDI in your firm?

• How has your firm committed to and recognised the value of its employees, including any measures/actions to ensure employee wellbeing and support across all divisions (whether they are fee earning staff or not)?

# “Firm” is defined as including: barristers’ chambers, firm of costs lawyers, firm of legal executives, firm of patent and/or trade mark attorneys, or solicitors’ firm.

ANNUAL LEGAL EXCELLENCE AWARDS 2023

RULES & PROCESS

Entries Now Open

Entries to the Annual Legal Excellence Awards are now open.

We will email entry forms to all members of CLS, which are available on request from: admin@cambslaw.com.

For individual and team awards, your entry must not exceed 600 words. For firm awards, your entry must not exceed 600 words.

The deadline for entries is 5pm on Friday 17th February 2023. Please submit your entry by email to: admin@cambslaw.com

Who can apply?

Entries are open to all lawyers including Solicitors, Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys, Barristers, Legal Executives, Licensed Conveyancers, Paralegals, and trainees as well as teams located in an office within Cambridgeshire. You may nominate yourself, a colleague, or a team. For the Lifetime Achievement Award, please nominate a senior lawyer deserving of this accolade.

Awards Criteria

The criteria for each award are set out against each award, but please note that for team and firm awards the judging panel will take account of the relative sizes of the entrants in determining the winner. Please note that the awards relate to work conducted within the area covered by the Cambridgeshire Law Society.

Qualifying Period

All entries must relate to the period from 1st January 2022 to 31st December 2022.

Judging Process

A panel of judges made up of professionals and business leaders will assess all the entries.

Winners

The winners of each Award will be announced at the Legal Excellence Award ceremony on Friday 21st April 2023.

Good luck to all entrants!