Submission Criteria
Submission Criteria
The 2025 Legal Business Awards will comprise 26 categories and are open to everyone, including large international firms operating in multiple jurisdictions, boutique law firms, alternative legal services providers, in-house teams, chambers or a regional/offshore practice in the UK.
For the practice area awards, please only submit matters that were handled by UK-based lawyers – either offshore or onshore – during 2023.
Find details of the criteria for each category here, as well as descriptions of previous winners and shortlisted firms. You can view the full list of last year’s winners here.
Please ensure submissions include:
- Partner contact and email address
- Press contact and email address
- Body text (max 600 words) explaining how you have met the specific criteria of the chosen award category
- Client testimony where appropriate
- We will assume that all information supplied to us may be published unless you indicate clearly otherwise.
Please feel free to submit in as many categories as you wish. Entries can be made here.
Entries open Monday 27 January 2025.
The closing date for nominations is Friday 14 March 2025.
A large and hugely experienced editorial team handles the shortlisting process, headed up by our Editorial Director Georgina Stanley.
Shortlisted firms will be personally notified in May and the full shortlist will be published a month prior to the event. The winners will be selected from the shortlists by our own judging panel, comprising the Legal Business editorial team, plus leading general counsel and industry consultants.
For general enquiries relating to the submission process, please contact Georgina Stanley, Georgina.Stanley@legal500.com.
Download a PDF version of the 2025 guidelines here.
Enter
Please submit your entry using our awards platform. It will only take a maximum of five minutes to submit.
Using the awards platform will allow you to:
- Login as many times as you’d like and edit your entry up until the submission deadline on Friday 14 March 2025.
- Enter more than once in each category, as long as the work submitted meets the criteria.
- Attach documents, links to videos and input testimonials