LCN Awards 2018: law firm and training principal nominees announced

We are delighted to bring you details of those firms and individuals nominated for the 15th annual LawCareers.Net Training & Recruitment Awards. The awards will be presented at a glamorous event at IET Savoy Place in London on 17 May 2018.

Within the core awards for training and recruitment by firm (large and small, city and regional), we see nominations for many previous winners, including Burges Salmon, Farrer & Co, Kirkland & Ellis, Norton Rose Fulbright, Shoosmiths and Travers Smith. In the Best Training Principal categories we also see repeat nominations for, among others, Letitia Glaister of Tees Law, Mark Beeley of Vinson & Elkins RLLP, and Ceri Vokes of Withers LLP.

The coveted Commendation for Diversity will be announced on the night.

We will be tweeting the results live using #LCNawards18, so be sure to follow @LawCareersNetUK.

Here is the full list of nominees:

Best Recruiter – Large City Firm

• Allen & Overy LLP
• Dentons
• Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
• Hogan Lovells
• Reed Smith
• Slaughter and May
• Travers Smith LLP

Best Trainer – Large City Firm

• Baker McKenzie
• Charles Russell Speechlys LLP
• Clyde & Co LLP
• CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP
• Macfarlanes LLP
• Norton Rose Fulbright
• Taylor Wessing

Best Recruiter – Medium City Firm

• Boodle Hatfield LLP
• Bristows LLP
• Farrer & Co LLP
• Forsters LLP
• Goodman Derrick LLP
• Hodge Jones & Allen LLP
• RPC

Best Trainer – Medium City Firm

• Bircham Dyson Bell LLP
• Devonshires Solicitors
• Farrer & Co LLP
• Kingsley Napley LLP
• Leigh Day
• Wedlake Bell LLP
• Withers LLP

Best Recruiter – US Firm in the City

• Cooley (UK) LLP
• Kirkland & Ellis International LLP
• Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe (UK) LLP
• Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
• Vinson & Elkins RLLP
• Winston & Strawn London LLP

Best Trainer – US Firm in the City

• Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
• K&L Gates LLP
• Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy
• Morrison & Foerster (UK) LLP
• Weil, Gotshal & Manges (London) LLP
• White & Case LLP

Best Recruiter – National/Large Regional Firm

• Burges Salmon LLP
• DWF LLP
• Freeths LLP
• Osborne Clarke LLP
• Shoosmiths
• Walker Morris LLP
• Womble Bond Dickinson

Best Trainer – National/Large Regional Firm

• BLM
• Browne Jacobson LLP
• Mills & Reeve LLP
• Pinsent Masons LLP
• Shakespeare Martineau LLP
• Squire Patton Boggs (UK) LLP
• TLT LLP

Best Recruiter – Medium Regional Firm

• Bevan Brittan LLP
• Hugh James
• Michelmores LLP
• Muckle LLP
• Royds Withy King
• Trethowans LLP
• VWV (Veale Wasbrough Vizards)

Best Trainer – Medium Regional Firm

• Blaser Mills
• EMW Law LLP
• Foot Anstey LLP
• Mundays LLP
• Steele Raymond
• Tees
• Thomson Snell & Passmore LLP

Best Recruiter – Small Firm

• Atherton Godfrey
• Beale & Company Solicitors LLP
• Helix Law
• Kesar & Co Solicitors
• Thackray Williams LLP

Best Trainer – Small Firm

• Atkins Hope
• Birchall Blackburn Law
• Curzon Green Solicitors
• Lanyon Bowdler Solicitors LLP
• Thackray Williams LLP

Best Work Placement Scheme – City Firm

• Charles Russell Speechlys LLP
• Fieldfisher
• Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
• HFW
• Hogan Lovells
• Kennedys
• Watson Farley & Williams LLP

Best Work Placement Scheme – Regional Firm

• Addleshaw Goddard
• Blake Morgan LLP
• Burges Salmon LLP
• DWF LLP
• Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP
• Osborne Clarke LLP
• Ward Hadaway

Best Training Principal (Large trainee intake)

• Ian Gascoigne – Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP
• Sean Lavin – Macfarlanes LLP
• Caroline Dean – Mills & Reeve LLP
• Catherine Wolfenden – Osborne Clarke
• Kevin Devanny – Pinsent Masons LLP
• Ceri Vokes – Withers LLP

Best Training Principal (Small trainee intake)

• Minesh Thakrar – Blaser Mills
• Peter Todd – Hodge Jones & Allen LLP
• Stephen Morris – Mundays LLP
• Ben Perry – Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
• Letitia Glaister – Tees
• Mark Beeley – Vinson & Elkins RLLP