TARAs shortlist revealed

Today we are pleased to bring you details of the firms and individuals who are nominated for the ninth annual LawCareers.Net Training & Recruitment Awards (TARAs). The awards will be presented at a glamorous event at the top of ‘The Gherkin’ later this month. This year sees some innovations with special recognition for individuals; for training principals leading the way at law firms and for inspirational lecturers with the Law Lecturer of the Year award. Within the core awards for training and recruitment by firm (large and small, city and regional), we see nominations for multiple winners such as Baker & McKenzie, Travers Smith, Burges Salmon and Mills & Reeve, whose consistent excellence has been apparent over the years. Furthermore, every category is hard fought, with most decided on a hair's breadth.

Here's the full list of nominees:

Law Lecturer of the Year
Anne Bottomley - University of Kent
Rodney Brazier - University of Manchester
Jeremy Horder - King’s College London
Siobhan McConnell - University of Northumbria
John Spencer - University of Cambridge
Eliza Varney - Keele University

Best Recruiter - Small Firm
Atherton Godfrey
The Compensation Lawyers Ltd
Cozens-Hardy LLP
McHale & Company
Maples Teesdale LLP
Wrigleys Solicitors LLP

Best Trainer - Small Firm
Alan Edwards & Co
Atherton Godfrey
Hanne & Co
Lanyon Bowdler Solicitors LLP
Pothecary Witham Weld

Best Recruiter - Medium Regional Firm
Knights Solicitors LLP
Nockolds LLP
Stephens Scown
Stevens & Bolton LLP
TLT LLP
Trethowans LLP
Wiggin LLP

Best Trainer - Medium Regional Firm
Birkett Long LLP
Cripps Harries Hall LLP
EMW Law LLP
Henmans LLP
Mundays LLP
Thomas Eggar
Thomson Snell & Passmore

Best Recruiter - National/Large Regional Firm
Bond Pearce LLP
Burges Salmon
DLA Piper UK LLP
Mills & Reeve LLP
Osborne Clarke
Pinsent Masons LLP
Wragge & Co LLP

Best Trainer - National/ Large Regional Firm
Blake Lapthorn
Browne Jacobson LLP
Cobbetts LLP
Dickinson Dees LLP
Pannone LLP
Shoosmiths
Weightmans

Best Recruiter - Medium City Firm
Charles Russell LLP
Kennedys
Macfarlanes LLP
Penningtons Solicitors LLP
RPC
Travers Smith LLP

Best Trainer - Medium City Firm
Bristows
Collyer Bristow LLP
Farrer & Co LLP
Goodman Derrick LLP
Hodge Jones & Allen LLP
Ince & Co LLP
K&L Gates LLP
Russell-Cooke LLP

Best Recruiter - US Firm in the City
Covington & Burling LLP
O'Melveny & Myers LLP
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom (UK) LLP
Vinson & Elkins RLLP
Weil, Gotshal & Manges

Best Trainer - US Firm in the City
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
Kirkland & Ellis International LLP
McDermott Will & Emery UK LLP
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe (Europe) LLP
Shearman & Sterling LLP

Best Recruiter - Large City Firm
Allen & Overy LLP
Ashurst LLP
Berwin Leighton Paisner
Clyde & Co LLP
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
Nabarro LLP
SJ Berwin
Slaughter and May

Best Trainer - Large City Firm
Baker & McKenzie
Berwin Leighton Paisner
Bird & Bird
CMS Cameron McKenna LLP
Mayer Brown International LLP
Reed Smith
Taylor Wessing

Best Work Placement Scheme - Regional Firm
Dickinson Dees LLP
Eversheds LLP
Michelmores
Mills & Reeve LLP
Osborne Clarke
Tees Solicitors

Best Work Placement Scheme - City Firm
Edwards Wildman Palmer UK LLP
Ince & Co LLP
Latham & Watkins
Nabarro LLP
Simmons & Simmons LLP
Speechly Bircham LLP

Best Training Principal (small trainee intake)
Graham French - Alan Edwards & Co
Helen Clark - Edwards Wildman Palmer UK LLP
Richard Jones - Knights Solicitors LLP
Nicola Richards - Trethowans LLP
Tabitha Cave - Veale Wasbrough Vizards
Simon Baggs - Wiggin LLP

Best Training Principal (large trainee intake)
Richard Webb - Cobbetts LLP
Edward Miller - Field Fisher Waterhouse
John Hornby - Macfarlanes LLP
Justin Cornelius - Nabarro LLP
Andrea Cohen - Pannone LLP
Iain Scoon - Shearman & Sterling LLP

The awards take place on Thursday 24 May. Check back on LawCareers.Net to find out the winners or follow the announcements live on LawCareers.Net’s twitter feed.