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Time to enter the LexisNexis Legal Awards 2018

03 November 2017
Issue: 7768 / Categories: Legal News , Profession
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Entries are now being accepted for the 2018 LexisNexis Legal Awards. The prestigious awards (formerly known as the Halsbury Legal Awards) celebrate the achievements of lawyers across 16 categories, including new categories this year of ‘customer focus’, ‘wellbeing’, ‘international legal services’ and innovation awards for both legal service providers and suppliers to the legal sector. Nominations can also be made for the Legal Personality of the Year award, with the winner being decided by an online vote of the NLJ readership.

The judges include Joe Egan, the President of the Law Society, Edward Sparrow, Chairman of City of London Law Society, and leading human rights lawyer, Baroness Helena Kennedy QC & NLJ consultant editor David Greene. For more details visit: www.LexisNexis.co.uk/legalawards2018.

Issue: 7768 / Categories: Legal News , Profession
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