The Yorkshire Legal Awards will open for submissions soon
The Yorkshire Legal Awards is open to individuals and teams in private practice and in-house, at law firms and companies who are based in Yorkshire or provide services in Yorkshire.
Key Dates for Your Diary
All the dates you need for the Yorkshire Legal Awards 2025
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Entry deadline 27 June 2025
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Shortlist July 2025
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Awards ceremony 9 October 2025
Submissions for Yorkshire Legal Awards 2025 will open soon!
The Yorkshire Legal Awards brings together the region’s legal community to recognise and celebrate its many achievements.
The Yorkshire Legal Awards were launched in 2000 and celebrated their 25th anniversary in 2024, with headline sponsor LexisNexis Enterprise Solutions. This key date in the calendar is the chance to come together for a memorable evening of networking, socialising, and celebrating.
Categories cover everyone from the biggest corporate firms to leading barristers, senior partners to rising stars. The awards are judged by a prestigious independent panel of experts from across Yorkshire’s legal community.
The awards culminate in a black-tie ceremony and dinner, held at the FirstDirect Arena in Leeds.
How to enter
Entries for the Yorkshire Legal Awards will open soon. Entries must be submitted by 27 June 2025.
- Register
- Pick your categories
- Choose the form of your submission
- Submit via the form
- Attach your logo
- Attach nominee’s photo
- Sit back and wait for news
How to win
It’s all about being memorable and compelling:
- Start early. Give yourself plenty of time to carefully evaluate the criteria for the categories you’re entering and provide a well-produced submission before the entry deadline.
- Check the criteria. Each category has its own criteria, and each submission should be unique.
- Provide evidence. Include as many results and evidence of success as you can, including testimonials. Judges are there to be swayed, so sway them.
- Keep it simple. Write or speak clearly and concisely so the judges can quickly understand the points you’re making.
- Consult with the relevant team. Collaborate on your submission as you do your work, and ensure that your whole team contributes.
- Be enthusiastic, transparent, and honest. Inspire the judges by sharing your organisation’s ethos and passion for your work without trying to pull the wool over their eyes. Honesty is the best policy.
- Redraft and revise. Once your submission is ready, start again and interrogate every fact and figure. Are they correct? Question every claim. Is that true? Weigh your language. Is that a helpful term or an empty buzzword?
General rules and requirements
- Entrants must be based in Yorkshire or provide services in Yorkshire
- Entrants can enter as many categories as they wish
- Submissions must be unique and tailored to meet the criteria of each category
- Self-nomination is required
- Written and video submissions are accepted – both must follow the criteria format
- Submissions can be made until 11.59pm on entry deadline day (27 June 2025)
- Entrants are expected to send at least one representative to attend the in-person ceremony
- The Yorkshire Legal Awards reserves the right to remove any entries which do not meet the above criteria
Have a question…
For information on your entry, contact Lily Middleton
lily.middleton@barkerbrooks.co.uk
0113 867 2191