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Legal Personality of the Year: LexisNexis Legal Awards 2022

24 January 2022
Issue: 7964 / Categories: Legal News , Profession
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It's time to cast your vote for Legal Personality of the Year!

The award honours an individual who has made an outstanding contribution in the legal sphere in the past year. The winner will be announced at the LexisNexis Legal Awards on 30 March.

They include an author, campaigner and legal adviser to the Windrush Reach project; a High Court judge; a solicitor who helped clear names in England’s largest miscarriage of justice; a devoted champion of fair access to the legal profession; an employment lawyer who helped Uber drivers; and a specialist in cases involving violence against women.

Find out who the nominees are, read their brief profiles and cast your vote―by 5pm on 4 March at the latest―here.

Issue: 7964 / Categories: Legal News , Profession
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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Gibson Dunn—London partner promotions

Gibson Dunn—London partner promotions

Firm grows international bench with expanded UK partner class

Shakespeare Martineau—six appointments

Shakespeare Martineau—six appointments

Firm makes major statement in the capital with strategic growth at The Shard

Myers & Co—Jess Latham

Myers & Co—Jess Latham

Residential conveyancing team expands with solicitor hire

NEWS
One in five in-house lawyers suffer ‘high’ or ‘severe’ work-related stress, according to a report by global legal body, the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC)
The Legal Ombudsman’s (LeO’s) plea for a budget increase has been rejected by the Law Society and accepted only ‘with reluctance’ by conveyancers
Overcrowded prisons, mental health hospitals and immigration centres are failing to meet international and domestic human rights standards, the National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) has warned
Two speedier and more streamlined qualification routes have been launched for probate and conveyancing professionals
Workplace stress was a contributing factor in almost one in eight cases before the employment tribunal last year, indicating its endemic grip on the UK workplace
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