LC.N Awards 2014 shortlist announced

Today we are pleased to bring you details of the firms and individuals who are nominated for the 11th annual LawCareers.Net Training & Recruitment Awards. The awards will be presented at a glamorous event at Merchant Taylors’ Hall in London on 22 May. We will be tweeting the results live on the night using #LCNAwards, so be sure to follow @LawCareersNetUK.

This year we will again be recognising individuals who make a difference to the lawyers of the future: training principals leading the way at law firms with the Best Training Principal award and inspirational lecturers with the Law Lecturer of the Year award. We will also be honouring one firm with the Commendation for Diversity, judged in association with Rare and the Law Society’s Lawyers with Disabilities Division.

Within the core awards for training and recruitment by firm (large and small, city and regional), we see nominations for multiple winners such as Burges Salmon, EMW Law, Farrer & Co, Nabarro and Shoosmiths, 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:

Best Recruiter - Large City Firm
Ashurst LLP
Berwin Leighton Paisner
Bird & Bird
Clyde & Co LLP
CMS Cameron McKenna LLP
Linklaters LLP
Mayer Brown International LLP
Nabarro LLP

Best Trainer – Large City Firm
Baker & McKenzie
Bird & Bird
Clyde & Co LLP
Norton Rose Fulbright
Reed Smith
Simmons & Simmons LLP
Taylor Wessing

Best Recruiter – National/Large Regional Firm
Blake Lapthorn
Bond Dickinson
Burges Salmon LLP
DLA Piper UK LLP
Mills & Reeve LLP
Osborne Clarke
Walker Morris LLP

Best Trainer – National/ Large Regional Firm
Addleshaw Goddard
Bevan Brittan LLP
DWF LLP
Freeth Cartwright LLP
Hill Dickinson LLP
Irwin Mitchell
Shoosmiths

Best Recruiter – US Firm in the City
Kirkland & Ellis International LLP
Shearman & Sterling (London) LLP
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom (UK) LLP
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
Vinson & Elkins RLLP
Weil, Gotshal & Manges

Best Trainer – US Firm in the City
Bingham McCutchen (London) LLP
Covington & Burling LLP
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
Latham & Watkins
Morrison & Foerster (UK) LLP
O'Melveny & Myers LLP

Best Recruiter – Medium City Firm
Bristows LLP
Collyer Bristow LLP
Edwards Wildman Palmer UK LLP
Forsters LLP
Payne Hicks Beach
RPC
Travers Smith LLP

Best Trainer – Medium City Firm
Devonshires Solicitors
Farrer & Co LLP
Goodman Derrick LLP
K&L Gates LLP
Kennedys
Kingsley Napley LLP
Winckworth Sherwood LLP

Best Recruiter – Medium Regional Firm
EMW Law LLP
Muckle LLP
Nockolds
Stevens & Bolton LLP
Taylor Walton LLP
Tees Law
Withy King

Best Trainer – Medium Regional Firm
Blandy & Blandy LLP
Field Seymour Parkes
Foot Anstey LLP
Mundays LLP
Thomas Eggar
Thomson Snell & Passmore
Wilkin Chapman LLP

Best Recruiter – Small Firm
Atherton Godfrey
Clarkson Wright & Jakes Ltd
Pothecary Witham Weld
Thackray Williams LLP
Wrigleys Solicitors LLP

Best Trainer - Small Firm
Alan Edwards & Co
Maples Teesdale LLP
Short Richardson & Forth LLP
Tim Johnson / Law
Zyda Law

Best Work Placement Scheme – City Firm
Kirkland & Ellis International LLP
Mishcon de Reya
Nabarro LLP
Norton Rose Fulbright
Speechly Bircham LLP
Withers LLP

Best Work Placement Scheme – Regional Firm
Ashfords
Eversheds LLP
Mills & Reeve LLP
Osborne Clarke
TLT LLP
Wragge & Co LLP

Best Training Principal – Large trainee intake
Edward Miller – Field Fisher Waterhouse
Bob Hughes – Freeth Cartwright LLP
Nick Johnson – Osborne Clarke
Lynn Knight – Shoosmiths
Tim Worden – Taylor Wessing
Suzanne Todd – Withers

Best Training Principal – Small trainee intake
Graham French – Alan Edwards & Co
Diane Parker – Atherton Godfrey
Stephen Morris – Mundays LLP
Ben Perry – Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
Letty Glaister – Tees Law
Valerie James – Wrigleys Solicitors LLP

Law Lecturer of the Year
Jane Martin – Anglia Ruskin University
Gwilym Owen – Bangor University
Janet O'Sullivan – University of Cambridge
Kieran Durcan – University of Lincoln
Paul Craig – University of Oxford
Mary Lee – University of Sussex