LCN Training & Recruitment Awards 2019: nominees announced

We are delighted to bring you details of those firms and individuals nominated for the 16th annual LawCareers.Net Training & Recruitment Awards. The winners will be announced at the awards ceremony at Grace Hall in London on 16 May 2019.

The awards are based on an extensive survey of trainees and newly qualified solicitors, with respondents asked to frankly assess their own experiences and score their firm on criteria related to the recruitment, training, work placement scheme and training principal. The nominated firms represent employers who are excelling in their support of trainees and junior lawyers.

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

We will be tweeting the results live using #LCNawards19, so be sure to follow @LawCareersNetUK.

Here is the full list of nominees:

Best Recruiter – Large City Firm

• CMS
• Hogan Lovells
• Macfarlanes LLP
• Reed Smith
• Simmons & Simmons LLP
• Slaughter and May
• Taylor Wessing

Best Trainer – Large City Firm

• Ashurst LLP
• Baker McKenzie
• Bird & Bird
• Charles Russell Speechlys
• Dentons
• Norton Rose Fulbright
• Travers Smith LLP

Best Recruiter – Medium City Firm

• Boodle Hatfield LLP
• Farrer & Co LLP
• Goodman Derrick LLP
• Mayer Brown International LLP
• RPC
• Stephenson Harwood LLP
• Wedlake Bell LLP

Best Trainer – Medium City Firm

• Bristows LLP
• Collyer Bristow LLP
• Devonshires Solicitors
• Forsters LLP
• Kingsley Napley LLP
• Mishcon de Reya LLP
• Withers LLP

Best Recruiter – US Firm in the City

• Cooley (UK) LLP
• Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher UK LLP
• Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
• Vinson & Elkins RLLP
• Weil, Gotshal & Manges (London) LLP
• White & Case LLP

Best Trainer – US Firm in the City

• Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
• Covington & Burling LLP
• Kirkland & Ellis International LLP
• Latham & Watkins
• Milbank LLP
• Morrison & Foerster (UK) LLP

Best Recruiter – National/Large Regional Firm

• Addleshaw Goddard
• BLM
• Burges Salmon LLP
• DWF LLP
• Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP
• Shoosmiths
• Womble Bond Dickinson

Best Trainer – National/Large Regional Firm

• DLA Piper UK LLP
• Gateley PLC
• Gowling WLG (UK) LLP
• Hill Dickinson LLP
• Mills & Reeve LLP
• Osborne Clarke LLP
• Squire Patton Boggs (UK) LLP

Best Recruiter – Medium Regional Firm

• Birkett Long LLP
• Capital Law
• Gordons LLP
• Michelmores LLP
• Muckle LLP
• Mundays LLP
• VWV (Veale Wasbrough Vizards)

Best Trainer – Medium Regional Firm

• Clarion Solicitors
• Sills & Betteridge LLP
• Steele Raymond LLP
• Taylor Walton LLP
• Tees
• Thomson Snell & Passmore LLP
• Trethowans LLP

Best Recruiter – Small Firm

• Acuity Legal
• Curzon Green Solicitors
• FBC Manby Bowdler LLP
• Lanyon Bowdler Solicitors LLP
• Wrigleys Solicitors LLP

Best Trainer – Small Firm

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

Best Work Placement Scheme – City Firm

• Dechert LLP
• Farrer & Co LLP
• Morrison & Foerster (UK) LLP
• RPC
• Weil, Gotshal & Manges (London) LLP
• Withers LLP

Best Work Placement Scheme – Regional Firm

• Burges Salmon LLP
• DWF LLP
• Michelmores LLP
• Mills & Reeve LLP
• VWV (Veale Wasbrough Vizards)
• Ward Hadaway

Best Training Principal (Large trainee intake)

• Richard Capper – Hill Dickinson LLP
• Susan Cooper – Accutrainee
• Sarah Dowd – Weightmans LLP
• Garry Elliott – Addleshaw Goddard
• Sean Lavin – Macfarlanes LLP
• Gwen Morgan-Evans – Hugh James

Best Training Principal (Small trainee intake)

• Tom Canning – Milbank LLP
• Vernon Dennis – Howard Kennedy
• Sue Greaves – Wrigleys Solicitors LLP
• Fiona Kellow – Thrings
• Ian Masser – Beale & Company Solicitors LLP
• David Strong – Marriott Harrison LLP