Legal.Powerlist Global Law Awards – 1st Edition
Redefining the meaning of excellence in the legal industry.
For the first time, we move to honor the best of the best in the legal industry by organising the Legal.Powerlist Global Law Awards.
Apart from our standard year-round process of compiling our directory with distinguished Law Firms and Professionals for selected practice areas in each jurisdiction, we established this event not only to celebrate excellence in the global legal industry, but to redefine it by applying innovative criteria to our nomination and judging process.
We are delighted to have been entrusted with nominations from all over the world spanning from top-tier Law Firms in established markets to up-and-coming boutiques in emerging ones. This gives our competition the breadth to achieve inclusivity and holistic approach to the participants.
Why Participate ?
Measuring Success / Benchmarking
Through evaluation, candidates receive feedback on where their services / products / projects are positioned in relation to the market, international standards and evaluators’ expectations.
Feedback / Improvement
All participants that were not successful can receive the evaluators’ feedback – upon request – to gain knowledge of the improvement points suggested by the jury.
Promotion / Publicity
A distinction offers multiple tools and opportunities for wider publicity throughout the year.
Reward / Motivation to teams
The distinction offers significant recognition to the efforts of the individual groups and strengthens the morale of the teams involved.
Sales boost
Research has shown that an award strengthens clients’ perceptions of the quality of a law firm’s services and contributes positively to revenue.
Methodology
The process starts with the nominations period being open. We encourage our users to engage in the nomination process, either by submitting nominations for their own Law Firms or for the Law Firms they work with.
After the nomination period is closed, our awards team collects all nominations received and present them to the judging panel. The judging panel creates a shortlist of the best nominees. The shortlisted firms and individuals are then scrutinised and assessed solely on their merit and in comparison to one another and standard industry benchmarks.
We conduct extensive review and gather any piece of information that may assist our judging panel in making an informed decision about the finalists (e.g. full CV, prior accomplishments and awards, publications, interviews and media coverage, etc.). Finally, the judging panel decides the award winners for each category. All the decisions made by our Judging Panel are backed by the rigorous analysis and the deep market research conducted by our experienced Research and Intelligence team.
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Nomination Process closed. Nominations are now under review.

This is what we do!
We work to distinguish the best law professionals in the market. Our work assists clients in identifying and contacting the best lawyers and provides confidence to reach informed decisions when seeking legal expertise. We pride ourselves for our commitment to the legal industry.
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