Prizes, punishments and innovation - the best of Legal Week last week
The best news, interviews and analysis from Legal Week and ALM over the last week
December 06, 2017 at 09:12 AM
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To all of our winners at last Thursday's British Legal Awards, congratulations.
Legal Week's editorial team spent much of last week celebrating among a host of top law firm and in-house lawyers at both our inaugural LegalWeek CONNECT event, and then the British Legal Awards.
CMS UK senior partner Penelope Warne was honoured as the first ever female winner of our coveted Law Firm Leader of the Year award at the BLAs, while Fieldfisher saw off competition from the likes of Clyde & Co and Allen & Overy to secure the Law Firm of the Year award. We set out the reasons for selecting the firms shortlisted for the award here.
The ceremony marked the finale of our new LegalWeek CONNECT event, which brought together big names from law firms, the judiciary, technology and in-house to debate the future of the profession.
With speakers including Baroness Harding of Winscombe, HSF's James Palmer, Dentons chief Elliott Portnoy, BLP's Lisa Mayhew and Fieldfisher's Michael Chissick, a summary of the event can be found here.
The first day also saw Nottingham University law student Queenie Djan and Leigh Day events manager Yolanda Kibuukamusoke crowned the winners of our first ever LegalTalent competition, for a proposal aiming to boost diversity in the legal progression.
The Dragons' Den-style process saw the sisters face a panel of high-profile names from the legal profession, including World Bank general counsel Sandie Okoro, KPMG UK GC Jeremy Barton, ITV GC Andrew Garard and former Anheuser-Busch InBev chief legal officer Sabine Chalmers. They were among 15 finalists pitching their ideas to the dragons.
But, of course, the last week hasn't all been about Legal Week. Popular stories on our site have covered everything from work/life balance efforts, sexual harassment, crime and punishment.
The best of the rest of Legal Week over the last seven days
- Magic circle firms warned over implications of failure to tackle sexual harassment
- Clifford Chance receives £50,000 SDT fine for 'unlawful' conditional fee agreement in Excalibur caseReed Smith weighs up alternative business structure conversion for London office
- First wave of Linklaters associates take up 40-hour per week contracts
- Dealmaker: Fieldfisher's Jill Greenfield on Harvey Weinstein, court antics and rewarding work
- Millennials have different expectations' – HSF's James Palmer on keeping law attractive for future generations
- Clifford Chance re-elects managing partner Layton for new four-year term
- The nine million dollar woman: tobacco GC tops ranking of highest paid US in-house legal heads
- Clifford Chance and Allen & Overy match Cravath's US associate bonuses
- Linklaters LLP accounts detail £20.8m profit share for top management team
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