SPONSORS
We’re pre-employment screening experts. Entrepreneurial and agile. Passionate about service.
Accurate has arrived in the UK via the acquisition of Vero Screening on 19 July 2022. Since Vero’s inception in 2006, our fundamental desire has been to support our clients and their candidates. We’re committed to excellent technology and the integrity of our data and systems, while our experienced team focus on our partnerships.
Since we’ve become Accurate, we’ve kept that ethos. But now, we’re global. We work as one. Better able to serve your needs and support you with an outstanding screening experience: to make every hire the start of a success story.
Talk to us about:
- Pre-Employment Screening
- Pay-As-You-Go Screening
- International Employee Screening
- Criminal Record Checks
- Social Media Searches
- SMCR & Employment Screening
And much more.
Get in touch with our experts for a free, tailored discussion about your individual requirements at ukenquiries@accurate.com, or call us on +44 (0) 1273 203 090.
Find out more about our screening services at https://www.accurate.com/uk/.
Sponsors of: HR Team of the Year
Benifex’s mission is to build remarkable experiences that employees love. Today Benifex supports more than five million employees in over 3,000 organisations across more than 100 countries.
Benifex has won over 120 awards. Change-makers like Baker Hughes, Bank of America, Boston Consulting Group, BT, Diageo, EDF, Exxon, IKEA, Lloyds Banking Group, Medtronic, Microsoft, Salesforce, Sony and Volvo choose Benifex to help them create remarkable experiences that are as individual as the people they employ.
Sponsors of: Best CSR Initiative
Blackbridge Communications is an employer branding and engagement agency that operates internationally from London.
Our client list includes Amazon, Aviva, BAE Systems, Direct Line Group, Entain, HSBC, Microsoft, The TJX Group and Vodafone. We’re highly experienced at delivering employer brands, early talent campaigns, engagement initiatives, social media content, careers websites and recruitment campaigns. Our work is high quality and has resulted in more than 70 award nominations over the last four years alone.
We offer a full agency service, employing nearly 50 specialists across the fields of Consulting, Creative and Channels. We are employee-owned, which greatly empowers our own recruitment and engagement, and in turn enhances our client service and product quality.
Find out more about Blackbridge at blackbridge.co.uk.
Sponsors of: Grand Prix
Culture Decoder
Culture Decoder is a pioneering values-based culture intelligence platform built to help legal firms and other professional services organisations measure, understand, and manage workplace culture with unprecedented precision.
Developed by Brands with Values, the platform offers rapid, evidence-based diagnostics that go beyond traditional engagement surveys—providing deep insights into Psychological Safety, Belonging, Burnout, and Alignment to Organisational Values. It empowers leaders to make data-driven decisions that improve performance, well-being, and risk culture, in alignment with evolving expectations from clients, regulators, and talent alike.
Culture Decoder has been deployed across leading law firms and regulated businesses to support transformation, M&A integration, leadership onboarding, and firm-wide culture change. Through our certified practitioner model, we equip internal HR, DEI and Risk professionals—as well as external consultants—with tools to decode culture and drive measurable impact.
As proud sponsors of this year’s awards, we are committed to celebrating the legal industry’s progress in building inclusive, resilient, and values-led workplaces.
Sponsors of: Excellence in Learning & Development
Chambers and Partners rankings and insights enable decision makers, from General Counsel at global blue-chip firms, through to local influencers, to secure the talent that’s right for them, for when it matters.
Our rankings are completely independent, can't be bought or influenced. We conduct over 285,000 interviews and surveys annually, which is analysed by 250+ dedicated research analysts, covering over 200 jurisdictions to differentiate the best legal service providers.
Our research also gives us an unparalleled depth of understanding of the trends across the legal market. Our products and services help firms promote their expertise to clients coming to chambers.com, discover their position in the market and how they measure up to their competitors and stay on the pulse of trends that can inform their business strategies.
In recent years, Chambers have partnered with Lamp House Strategy, on Leading Teams and Responsible Business, acquiring Lamp House in June 2024. Talent and CSR professionals in law firms can take advantage of bespoke insights and the first legal talent benchmark on the market. This information is invaluable to help firms attract, retain and motivate high-performing talent and make sure they are hitting their sustainability targets and learn best practice from their peers.
Sponsors of: Best Internal Engagement
Clyde & Co’s employment team are dedicated to advising clients on all the ‘people’ issues that they face. With a focus on the professional services sector, they deal with all partner and employment issues, including hiring, assisting in change programmes, managing and resolving disputes when they arise (including partner disputes), and much more.
We are part of Clyde & Co’s Professional Practices group which brings our employment and partnership lawyers together with our leading professional liability and regulatory lawyers, and our corporate and commercial lawyers. We can assist with any issues your law firm faces.
Clyde & Co’s employment team are recognised in Legal 500: ‘Excellent technical knowledge, responsive, pragmatic and has a great ability to provide simple and clear advice to tricky matters.’
Sponsors of: Excellence in ED&I
People are your organisation’s greatest asset.
As employees across all geographies, industries and employer types navigate the ever-changing world, organisations must critically evaluate their people experience — finding unique ways to engage teams, establish authentic connections and support employee wellbeing, overall. Making an intentional connection between your people’s wellbeing and your organisation’s performance is imperative for optimal results. When your people are all in, your business can attract top talent, motivate employees and shift the organisational culture — helping employees to feel differently about their work. As a result, organisations can reduce burnout and increase productivity among their people, and business performance can soar. This is why your people are at the centre of what we do.
Gallagher offers a comprehensive approach for strategically investing in benefits, compensation, retirement and employee communication so you can support the health, financial security and career growth of your people at the right cost structures. From evaluating the demographics of your workforce, to surveying and analysing competitor trends, Gallagher offers you data driven insights — allowing you to make the most of your investment in talent, deliver a better people experience and reduce organisational risk. Even in times of uncertainty, we’re here to help you optimise your profitability with a strategy rooted in the wellbeing of your people.
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. (NYSE: AJG), an international insurance brokerage and risk management services firm, is headquartered in Rolling Meadows, Illinois; has over 1,200 offices globally; and offers client-service capabilities in more than 130 countries around the world through a network of correspondent brokers and consultants.
Sponsors of: Best People Professional
Our mission is to pioneer student futures.
• We support students with self-discovery, career guidance, skills and finding roles.
• We help employers reach and hire in the UK and Europe across all early careers programmes and level.
• We enable educators to deliver world-class careers and student services.
We do this through an extensive and growing suite of brands, products, services and partnerships, to help employers at every stage of the hiring process. This includes talent intelligence and student research via Cibyl, attraction and branding, sourcing, assessment and candidate management, onboarding, and beyond.
Additional sub-brands such as targetjobs, targetconnect, gradireland and GradBay, reach millions of students and our platforms integrate with over 90 universities, whilst supporting over 25,000 employers with UK, Ireland and global hiring.
Our presence in the legal sector is significant and continuing to grow, with well over 50 of the UK’s top legal firms working with GTI at some or all steps in hiring trainees.
Our ‘Festival of Law’, includes an array of virtual and in-person programmes to engage directly with legal career-enthused students from a range of diverse backgrounds including Black heritage, neurodivergent, lower-socioeconomic and LGTBQ+.
To find out more about how we can help you with your hiring needs, contact our Legal Sector Lead, Roko: roko.kostan@groupgti.com
Sponsors of: Best Early Talent Recruitment Campaign
Specialist Employee Benefits Solutions for the Legal Sector
Howden Employee Benefits is a leading provider of specialised employee benefits solutions tailored exclusively to the legal sector. With over 750 law firms trusting our expertise, we are the partner of choice for delivering tailored advice that helps legal practices enhance their employee benefits strategies.
We have won many industry awards for our work and are widely recognised for our innovative and creative people-first approach to benefits design.
Industry-leading research
We’re proud to partner with People In Law and as an employee-owned business, we have the freedom to think bigger, go further, and act faster for our clients. We’re committed to supporting you day-in, day-out. This year, we are continuing our partnership with People in Law to conduct in-depth research into the current employee benefits landscape within the legal sector. Stay tuned for our valuable insights, helping HR professionals in the sector tackle key priorities and future challenges.
Let us support your firm’s success
At Howden, we are committed to helping law firms build an engaging and supportive environments for their employees. Our teams offer deep, specialist advice and expertise, whilst scanning the horizon for the solutions of the future. Ultimately, this means we deliver benefits programmes that support business ambitions, reflect company culture, and drive value by engaging your most valuable asset – your people.
To learn more about how we can assist you, your team, and your firm, get in touch with us today.
Speak to James Clowser, Client Director, today to find out how we can help you, your employees and your firm.
T: +44 (0)7717 440782
www.howdengroup.com/uk-en/employee-benefits
Sponsors of: MOST INNOVATIVE PEOPLE INITIATIVE
LinkedIn is proud to support the Best Social Mobility Initiative Award at the People in Law Awards 2025.
We’re committed to creating economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce — including the current and next generation of legal talent. Through data, insight and community, we help build more inclusive pathways to opportunity.
LinkedIn connects the world’s professionals to make them more productive and successful and transforms the way companies hire, learn, market, and sell.
Sponsors of: Best Social Mobility Initiative
At Lockton People Solutions, we believe businesses thrive when their people do. That's why we help firms design tailored employee benefit strategies that attract and retain top talent, manage costs effectively, and promote wellbeing. Over 1,600 UK firms trust our expertise, giving us unique insight into your challenges.
Working closely with you, we develop innovative, bespoke solutions to meet your specific needs. Whether supporting magic circle firms, regional practices, or US-parented firms, we build lasting relationships with our clients. The result? Strategies that enhance wellbeing and grow with your firm, adapting to its evolving needs for long-term success. For more information, visit www.lockton.com
Sponsors of: Rising Star
Performance and feedback software for professional firms
Our market leading performance management platform will change how partners and employees feel about giving and receiving feedback.
In critical moments, from reviews to check-ins to real-time feedback, our AI-powered platform is beside you all the way, making it easier to have meaningful conversations, set great goals and engage and retain talent.
As a trusted advisor to over 90 professional firms, with our built for purpose platform and deep sector expertise you’re in safe hands.
We'll support your firm to:
• Evolve your approach by pairing flexible technology with deep sector know-how
• Make everyone’s life easier with AI-powered tools that enhance quality and create efficiency for partners and leaders to HR teams and RemComs
• Stay at the leading edge, accessing our thought leadership and research as a member of our global community of professional firms in more than 30 countries
Sponsors of: Best Innovation Through Technology
About four years ago, we committed to reduce our footprint as early talent recruiters. The result of that decision was the founding of the Sustainable Recruitment Alliance. We’re beginning to stem the decades of damage that our early talent practices have caused to the environment. Our purpose is to help reduce the carbon footprint of early talent professionals. Our mission is to create and empower a deeply connected ecosystem of stakeholders, including early talent recruiters, universities, and student organisations, who are committed to reducing their collective carbon footprint and embedding sustainability at the heart of their practices.
Sponsors of: Best Environmental, Social and Governance Initiative
Totum Partners is the market leading business services recruitment firm, offering unparalleled expertise in sourcing, recruiting, and placing exceptional talent for legal and professional services firms.
Working across all business services functions, we help firms structure and resource their teams from scratch, scoping out roles and capabilities. Our extensive network allows us to source the best professional services talent from a range of sectors, helping firms accelerate positive change through their people.
Totum Partners' dedicated HR team is available to support individuals and firms across both generalist and specialist roles in areas like talent development, DEI, reward, employee relations, recruitment, health and wellbeing, responsible business and more. We work at all levels of seniority, from advisor/officer roles up to and including Director and Chief.
We pride ourselves on the enduring relationships we have built across the sector, helping HR teams to grow and develop by applying our market knowledge and expertise to this critical function. Whatever HR skills you need, we are on hand to advise and then deliver.
If you would like to find out more about how we could help you with your HR recruitment needs or simply want to have a chat about the latest market trends, contact our dedicated HR team: laura.mcnair@totumpartners.com, hannah.leonsoon@totumpartners.com or briony.jenkins@totumpartners.com
Sponsors of: Best People Leader
Yurtle exists to serve companies who employ people with adult and child caregiving responsibilities. We minimise workplace absence by leveraging our deep, first-hand understanding of the impacts of caregiving to boost employee wellbeing.
Care breakdown prevention is at the core of our solution, spanning child, elder and specialised care. Our novel employee insurance cover immediately protects employees in the event that their care arrangements or health breaks down. These funds can be used to hire a professional caregiver from our vetted network of care providers, allowing employees to return to work as quickly as possible.
Our care management app minimises workplace absence by connecting employees with educational information, curated discounts from care service providers, and tools to help them build a resilient network of support around them.
To reduce care-related absence in your workplace, while boosting employee wellbeing and improving productivity, speak to us today at hello@yurtle.co.uk .