2019 winners
See the winners and those highly commended from previous Excellence Awards.
Team awards
Winner

Paul Hastings LLP
Paul Hastings LLP were recognised for working collaboratively on several projects with children's rights charities include the Youth Justice Legal Centre, UNICEF and Coram. Our judges were impressed with their excellent work, and appreciated their effort working in partnership with others, setting an example to the profession leading to beneficial consequences for children's rights.
Highly commended
Legal Advice Centre (University House)
The Legal Advice Centre impressed the judges with their new webcam platform, enabling the provision of welfare benefits and family law advice that focused on remote areas of Devon and Cornwall.
Latham & Watkins
Latham & Watkins impressed the judges with their work with Amnesty International and Save the children UK to produce detailed research on refugee law, enabling the charities to argue a strong case to change the law in support of vulnerable refugee children.
Winner

Fosters Solicitors LLP
Highly commended
DAC Beachcroft
Duncan Lewis Solicitors
Winner

CFG Law
Highly commended
Bartons Marine Department
Stuart Miller Solicitors
Winner

Sainsbury's Legal Team
Highly commended
Bhatt Murphy
Gowling WLG
Winner

Young People's Legal Service, Warwickshire Legal Services, Warwickshire County Council
Highly commended
Telstra
JDA Software
Winner

The International Family Law Group
Highly commended
Zaiwalla & Co LLP
Expatriate Law
Winner

Rusell-Cooke and Lawyers in Charities
Highly commended
Weightmans LLP
Giles Wilson LLP
Winner

RPC
Highly commended
Harrison Clark Rickerbys LLP
Setfords Solicitors
Winner

Morecrofts Solicitors
Highly commended
Roche Legal
Hugh Jones Solicitors
Winner

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher UK
Highly commended
Arnold & Porter, Covington & Burling, Reed Smith, Ropes & Gray, Shearman & Sterling and Kids in Need of Defense UK (MiCLU hub)
Hogan Lovells International LLP
Winner

Co-op Legal Services
Highly commended
Hall Smith Whittingham LLP
Sky Legal
Winner

Instalaw Solicitors
Highly commended
Collins Solicitors
Wesley Gryk Solicitors LLP
Winner

Family Law Partners
Highly commended
Winner

Dentons
Highly commended
Weightmans LLP
Leigh Day
Individual awards
Winner

Harriet Wistrich, of Birnberg Pierce, and the Centre for Women's Justice
Highly commended
Carol Storer of Legal Action Group
James Brown and Sam Hall of Hall Brown
Winner

Sapna Malik of Leigh Day
Highly commended
Nusrat Uddin of Wilson Solicitors LLP
Jocelyn Cockburn of Hodge Jones & Allen Solicitors
Winner

Jonathan Andrews of Reed Smith
Highly commended
Chrissie Wolfe of Irwin Mitchell
Adam Eagle of Clifford Chance LLP
Winner

Joanne Dalton of MSB Solicitors
Highly commended
Ian Walker of Family Law and Mediation Limited
Linda Hayes of Grayfords
Winner

Chris Fox of Kambi Group PLC
Highly commended
Hazel Randall of NHS Digital
Anne-Louise Ferguson MBE of NWSSP Legal and Risk Services
Winner

Tamsin Allen of Bindmans LLP
Highly commended
Daniel Winterfeldt at Reed Smith
Kayleigh Leonie of Macfarlanes LLP
Winner

Ayesha Nayyar of Nayyars Solicitors
Highly commended
Arun Chauhan of Tenet Compliance & Litigation Ltd
Winner

Alison Lobb of Morecrofts Solicitors
Alison Lobb is a leading lawyer who is fully embedded in the legal profession and wider business community in Liverpool. As a managing partner, she has introduced significant policy changes to support gender equality in the workplace. She stands out for her active promotion of women in the profession, and is a true and worthy ambassador for women, her practice and her city.
Highly commended
Sarah Khan-Bashir MBE of SKB Law
Lesley Gregory of Memery Crystal LLP
Winner

Lucy Scott-Moncrieff of Scott-Moncrieff Associates Ltd
Lucy Scott-Moncrieff’s work is prolific: she is the House of Lords Commissioner for Standards, the Co-Chair of the Legal Aid and Access to Justice Committee of the International Bar Association, and sits as a Tribunal judge, to mention just a few of her appointments.
She has not only built an extremely successful firm from the ground up but has also built her reputation as a mental health and human rights lawyer, and as a promoter and supporter of the profession and its values. She gives a huge amount of her time to the public and the profession.