- 1000+ attendees
- 64% are senior and C-suite level
- 6 hours of networking time
The Yorkshire Legal Awards brings together the region’s legal community to recognise and celebrate its many achievements. In 2025, the Yorkshire Legal Awards will celebrate its 26th anniversary!
The award categories cover everyone from the biggest corporate firms to leading barristers, from senior partners to rising stars, and the event itself is a glittering black-tie affair, and always sells out.
The awards are judged by a prestigious independent panel made up of experts from across the Yorkshire legal community.
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After practicing in Leeds as a commercial property solicitor for more than forty years David is now retired from practice.
In addition to his involvement with Leeds Law Society being a Director and a Past President, David is a Law Society Council Member representing Yorkshire, Immediate Past President of the Yorkshire Union of Law Societies, Chair of the Access to Justice Foundation Yorkshire and Honorary President of the Yorkshire Pro Bono Committee.
David is also the Under Sheriff of West Yorkshire and a Trustee of the Royal Yorkshire Regiment.
Eleanor serves as the Chair of the NECCBA and the Co-Chair of the Yorkshire Pro Bono Committee. Additionally, she regularly sits as a Recorder for both the North Eastern and Northern Circuits and as a Deputy District Judge on the North Eastern Circuit.
Emma Pearmaine is managing director of Ridley and Hall Solicitors, with 4 offices across West and South Yorkshire.
Emma is a winner of the Yorkshire Legal Awards Managing Partner of the Year Award 2020.
Emma is also vice president of the Yorkshire Union of Law Societies, past president of Leeds Law Society and member of their executive committee.
Emma is married and is the very proud mother of 2 ‘grown up’ sons. In her spare time, she loves to be with her family and friends, she cooks up a storm in the kitchen, enjoys walking the dog in the countryside and loves curling up with a good book.
The Yorkshire Legal Awards brings together the region’s legal community to recognise and celebrate its many achievements.
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