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12 February 2026
Categories: Legal News , Profession
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Vote for Legal Personality of the Year 2026

Your vote is needed! NLJ readers are invited to help choose the winner of the LexisNexis Legal Awards 2026 Legal Personality of the Year

A shortlist of candidates has been drawn up by NLJ’s editorial team, based on who has made an outstanding contribution in the legal sphere in the past two years.  Now you can have your say here. You must cast your vote by 5pm on 4 March. The winner will be announced at the awards ceremony, taking place on 16 April.

Choose between seven high-achieving nominees, including the founder of public interest legal project Law For Change, the pioneering campaigner behind Ruby’s Law, and a former National Chair of Resolution.

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Harneys—Maggie Kwok & George Weston

Harneys—Maggie Kwok & George Weston

Harneys senior leadership appointments

Freeths—Keith Browne & Jim Jordan

Freeths—Keith Browne & Jim Jordan

Freeths strengthens London Construction and Engineering practice with two strategic senior hires

Anthony Collins—Laura Moss

Anthony Collins—Laura Moss

Anthony Collins announces strategic hire to deepen skills base in the social business sector

NEWS
Existing defamation law can respond to AI ‘hallucinations’, but allocating responsibility will prove harder where outputs reach users without human intervention
The High Court has upheld a rare successful serious-irregularity challenge after an arbitrator relied on an implied term neither party had advanced
Thirty years after The Future of Law shook a profession still using fax machines, its central forecast looks increasingly less like prophecy and more like description
More than 100 teams from the legal and financial services sectors competed in five sports at the 51st Law Society RFC Festival of Sport earlier this month
Part-time status need only be an effective cause of less favourable treatment, rather than the sole cause, the Supreme Court has held in Augustine v Data Cars
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