Thrilled to be named National Law Firm of the Year in The Lawyer Awards 2019! Plus a commendation for our sports offering, Elite Advisory, in Best Client Innovation and a nomination for Best Collaborative Initiative. Read more now at:
#LawyerAwards
If you caught the BBC News at 6pm yesterday, you'd have seen Shoosmiths partner and co-head of the
#Birmingham
office, Alex Bishop talk about
#workingfromhome
, after the announcement today by the prime minister.
To watch the segment, follow:
To celebrate our 175-year anniversary, we have teamed up with
@WoodlandTrust
to create one hectare of woodland in the Young People's Forest at Mead.
That's a total of 2,275 trees - 175 for each of our 13 UK locations! 🌳
Read more:
We're relocating our Birmingham office to
@103ColmoreRow
after agreeing a 15-year lease on the 11th, 12th and 20th floors 🏢
103 Colmore Row comprises 223,631 sq ft of BREEAM ‘Excellent’ Grade A office space.
Read more:
To mark International Women’s Day 2019, senior leaders from Shoosmiths will be sharing their quotes of commitment to help build a more gender-balanced world. Starting with our board of directors
#BalanceForBetter
#IWD2019
#Shoosmiths
Shoosmiths’ Easter bunny has visited each of our 12 locations with a little thank you for everyone from our leadership team. Happy Easter everyone!
#inmyshoos
#thankyou
#easterbunny
We are proud to introduce, CJ Ntsiu, recently featured by the BBC about how race has impacted his life growing up. Join us in our commitment to stand for change. Listening to the experiences of others is how we learn - watch the video at .
#inclusion
Fantastic news for our strong Real Estate team on our win! We have a broad spread of Real Estate expertise across the UK and our lawyers are working on some incredible deals that are changing the skyline of our UK cities and beyond!
#EGAwards18
We’ve announced our new Chief Executive - our UK head of real estate Simon Boss will assume the role from Claire Rowe - who has been our chief executive for 10 years - on 1 January
A HUGE congratulations to our partner Hayley Saunders who completed yesterday's
#LondonMarathon
and smashed her £5,000 target for
@AmbitiousAutism
. A brilliant effort for a great charity. You can still donate at
Great to see so many
#Birmingham
office colleagues taking part in our 'It's A Knockout' charity event yesterday, raising £19,000 so far this year for an amazing charity, Little Hearts Matter, supporting anyone affected by the diagnosis of a single ventricle heart condition.
#CSR
Introducing the People of Shoosmiths. Over the next month, you'll read about our journey, our commitments, and personal experiences from our colleagues. We want Shoosmiths to be a place where you can be yourself and do your best work.
#diversity
#nationalinclusionweek
#inmyshoos
We're proud to be the first law firm to get involved in the One Planet Pledge. Our 2019/2020 carbon footprint is 23% lower than the previous year and we aim to be carbon neutral by 2025. Find out about the pledge campaign here:
#Sustainability
#news
#Law
🦸♀ | Alexandra Bishop has a picture of Wonder Woman on her study wall, an apt role model for a lawyer who has two day jobs: head of commercial litigation and co-head of
@Shoosmiths
’ Birmingham office.
#TheLawyerHot100
Clients love working with Shoosmiths people because of the way we work and the results we consistently deliver for them. You don't have to take our word for it, many of our clients are happy to talk on our behalf.
#L500UK2021
@thelegal500
#thenewhow
We are thrilled to be nominated for FIVE Law Society Excellence Awards! They are: Diversity and Inclusion; Excellence in Client Service; Law Firm of Year (Large); Learning and Development and Solicitor of the Year
See shortlist here:
#LawSocAwards
Congratulations to our ‘Lawyer of the Year’, Sanjeev Sharma, partner who received this amazing accolade at the Thames Valley Deals Awards 2019 last night, and to our award finalists: Young Dealmaker, Kiran Dhesi and our team as Law Firm of the Year:
We're delighted to announce that Rebecca Mauleverer, partner has been shortlisted as a Legal Advisor of the Year finalist at the Women in Finance Awards, Europe’s largest diversity initiative:
@womenfinanceuk
#womeninfinance
Congratulations to our inspirational partner Paula Swain, a Woman of the Year - Non-Creditor finalist at the Women in Credit Awards, with team members last night in London. The awards are part of
#CreditWeek
, Europe's largest credit industry gathering.
@PaulaMilestogo
#WiCawards
Our Leeds office, established just over two years ago, has raised more than £10,000 for a local children's hospice. Martin House provides fantastic care and support to families and children with life limiting conditions. Well done to everyone involved!
#Leeds
#CSR
Congratulations to our 13 new partners in 2019 - seven men and six women - across diverse practice areas. In a recent report by Aspirant Analytics, we're one of only two firms to have exceeded the goal of a 30/70 partner gender split. Read more now:
Double award winners! 🏆🏆
We're thrilled to have won Court of Protection Team of the Year and Best Contentious Wills & Probate Team - the latter for the second year running - at The British Wills and Probate Awards 2021.
@TWProbate
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#BWAPAwards2021
We've appointed Vikas Shah MBE (
@MrVikas
) as a non-executive director.
Vikas joins the Board alongside Monica Burch, a non-executive director since 2018, and will provide another expert external view to assist our strategic development 👥
Read more:
Shoosmiths Commercial Recoveries team win – “Legal Team of the Year” CICM British Credit Awards 2018. Contact Partner & National Head of Commercial Recoveries – Karen.Savage
@Shoosmiths
.co.uk
WATCH: Proud to see our trainee solicitor Amy Leech named in the final 10 of
@NatAccHelpline
's nationwide competition to find the country’s brightest Future Legal Mind. Amy explains why she entered at
Our national head of dispute resolution and compliance Alex Bishop will be talking about her role in the legal world
@1000TradesJQ
in Birmingham tonight, for the GirlCode: Women in Power. Tickets and info at
Celebrations are in order! We've very excited to
#welcome
to 26 new trainees and to congratulate our brilliant newly qualified solicitors, 96% of whom remain with us
#congratulations
#welcome
#thenewhow
We're thrilled to be alongside the likes of Ed Sheeran, The Beatles and Vera Lynn as nominees at this year's
@MusicWeek
Awards! Full story from us to follow
#MusicWeekAwards
#MQATakeMeThere
So we are up for three awards tonight - law firm of the year at
#BritishLegalAwards
; as well as litigation team of the year and debt recovery firm of the year at the
#THELAWAWARDS
. Good luck!
Congratulations to our real estate team for scooping Law Firm of the Year at last night's Insider North West Residential Property Awards 2020!
#NWResiAwards
@insidernwest
We're proud to announce 11 new Senior Associates in our latest promotions, following four partner promotions earlier this year 🙌
A huge congratulations to our new Senior Associates ⤵️
Thank you to Law Society Gazette for reviewing this... and Congratulations to Alison Matthews, our director of quality and risk for achieving a 5 star review for her essential toolkit guide on navigating data protection:
#gdpr
#data
@lawsocgazette
An exciting announcement – we will be moving our
#Solent
team to a new cutting edge office at The Forum, Solent Business Park in early September!
#Solentofficemove
Welcome to our new home in the City of London, No.1 Bow Churchyard 📍
The new office is a collaborative space for us to work together driving innovation and ideas, supporting our clients’ businesses.
Proud of our shortlisting for UK law firm of the year at British Legal Awards 2020. Recognition of our pursuit of excellent client service, using new methods of working to bring added-value/tangible benefits to our clients, our people and our communities.
#britishlegalawards
Congratulations to our family team who have been nominated in this year's Lexis Nexis Family Law Awards. They're up for Family Law Firm of the Year 2019: Midlands & Wales.
@LexisNexisUK
#familylawawards
#familylaw
Looking forward to tonight's
#LawyerAwards
where we are up for three - national law firm of the year, best collaboration initiative and best client service innovation. Good luck to all
@TheLawyermag
Our work continues with the
@ScottishFA
to help further develop girls’ and women’s football, inspiring the next generation 🙌
@RobinMLaw
is a volunteer coach with
@BTFC07
, and he was recently joined by
#SWNT
's
@PedroMLosa
to give a coaching session to the club's U18 players.
We’re getting ready to welcome clients, friends and colleagues to our Nottingham office to celebrate a fantastic 35 years in this city – and the growth of our office over the years. Looking forward to seeing you there
#shoosmiths
#shooevents
#nottingham
To continue raising the bar for client experience, we’re moving into our own prestigious new building in the City of London 🏢
"The new office reflects our ongoing and sustained commitment to client-focused work and infrastructure." 💬
Read more:
A huge congratulations to our Corporate team members on their amazing wins at the Solent Deals Awards - Steve Porter, head of Corporate for Lawyer of the Year and Emma Livesey for Young Dealmaker of the Year. More on our team here:
@TheBusinessMag
Very proud of our
@UK_Legal500
rankings. Shoosmiths is recommended as a top tier firm across an impressive 29 practice areas and are recommended tiers 2-7 across 75 others.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court has this morning handed down its ruling and substantially allowed the FCA/Policyholder appeals and dismissed the insurers’ appeals. Join us for a webinar this month to find out what this could mean for your business. Register at
We’re very proud to have been awarded the highly prestigious
@IIP
Platinum accreditation 🎉
This elite accolade puts us in the top 2% of the tens of thousands of companies assessed throughout Investors in People’s history.
Read more:
Our team in Birmingham recently visited
@103ColmoreRow
, to take a look at the new office settings 🏢
Currently based at Two Colmore Square, we will be relocating to
@103ColmoreRow
having agreed a 15-year lease on the 11th, 12th and 20th floors.
Those views 😍
We are celebrating our tenth year in
#manchester
. Of course we have a cake! A warm welcome to the guests who have already arrived at our event
#shooevents
Fantastic Friday news after we scooped Property Law Firm of the Year at last night's
@Insidermag
@insiderwestmids
West Midlands Property Awards. Congratulations also to the winner of the Shoosmiths Sustainability Award - Birmingham's Lewis Building
We’ve launched our new coronavirus hub, packed full of advice, guidance and insights for our clients. We’ll be publishing regular insights at
#COVID2019
#coronavirusuk
Congratulations to Alex Bishop, partner and head of litigation who has won this award recognising her exceptional contribution to the business community!
Being famous for our client experience drives our business. Clients tell us that we get the "people bit" right, never take a client for granted, and invest in the relationships which are at the heart of great service.
#L500UK2020
Shoosmiths is listening. Our Chief Executive and Chairman have published a statement on our website outlining what we can do next to push for racial equality
#blacklivesmatter
🏆Wow! We're thrilled at this news at being awarded Law Firm of the Year (Large Firms). Congratulations to all of our colleagues involved! Read more about the awards here: 🏆
🏆 Our second award that we've won today! Thank you so much to
@TheLawSociety
for awarding us the Excellence in Private Client Practice award. 🏆
#law
#PrivateWealth
.
@Shoosmiths
are our Excellence in Private Client Practice Winners – congratulations! They demonstrated a significant contribution to the private client sector
#LawSocAwards
🎉
We're proud to launch the Shoosmiths Foundation, a grant-making body working to help address societal issues, empower sustainable change & improve the lives of the people & the environment in the UK. Read more:
#CSR
#CorporateResponsibility
#SocialMobility
We're celebrating after winning the Law Firm of the Year (Large Firms) category at the first ever Women in Law Awards. Read more now:
#law
#DiversityandInclusion
We’ve won Debt Recovery Team of the Year
@HeraldEvents
#thelawawards
for the third consecutive year - well done to our Litigation and Recoveries team in Scotland!
We're delighted to be shortlisted for two awards at
@LegalWeek
's Legal Innovation Awards! 🎉
➡️ AI Innovation - Internal Excellence
➡️ Future of Legal Services Innovation - Mid-Sized Private Practice
See the full shortlists:
Did you know we've launched a new private client advisory service to manage the affairs of professionals and entrepreneurs in sport, media and entertainment?
#ENGSWE
We're very proud to announce four new partners in our latest promotions round 🙌
A huge congratulations to:
➡️ Ellie Sandbach - real estate
➡️ Lucy Taylor - personal advisory
➡️ Simon Procter - corporate
➡️ Sarah Tedstone - business advisory
Read more:
Partner, and Head of Commercial Recoveries at
#Shoosmiths
Karen Savage, has been selected as a finalist in the Business Leader of the Year - Supplier category, at this year's
#WomenInCreditAwards
. The winner will be announced next month.