JACKSON LEES GROUP WINS LAW FIRM OF THE YEAR AWARD

Jackson Lees Group has won the Law Firm of the Year award for firms with over 50 employees at the Liverpool Law Society Legal Awards 2024.

The awards celebrate businesses and individuals who have made a significant contribution to Liverpool and the surrounding areas, including by retaining local talent and supporting the community through charitable initiatives and voluntary work.

The winners were announced at the Liverpool Law Society's annual dinner at the Rum Warehouse at the Titanic Hotel in Liverpool.

Jackson Lees Group is a full-service practice working with private and legal aid clients across the North West and beyond, with offices in Liverpool, Wirral and Southport.

It includes the firms of Broudie Jackson Canter, Farrington Law and Jackson Lees.

Broudie Jackson Canter has a long history of helping individuals and groups access justice, and his team's pro bono work was instrumental in getting former Prime Minister Boris Johnson to agree to a statutory public inquiry into the handling of Covid -19. pandemic.

The firm is now supporting Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK during the investigation and has established various communication channels to ensure clients are kept up to date with proceedings and connected to their legal team, including via webinars and regular podcasts.

Broudie Jackson Canter also played a key role in campaigning for Hillsborough Law, which will impose a duty of candor on public authorities to help reduce injustice and ensure parity of representation. This means that officials or organizations that mislead or obstruct investigations could face criminal sanctions.

Elkan Abrahamson, director of the Broudie Jackson Canter and head of the Major Investigations and Investigations team, led a successful pro-bono campaign alongside the bereaved families of the Hillsborough disaster for inquests to be carried out.

Jackson Lees Group has also implemented a series of initiatives across the group to improve customer experience, including testing AI tools and launching a new customer experience platform.

It provides opportunities for personal and professional development through its learning academy and organizes external speakers on topics such as mental health.
Furthermore, the group has a strong policy of recruiting and retaining local talent. It runs recruitment events for local graduates and launches a campaign to promote careers in law to schoolchildren from disadvantaged and black and minority ethnic communities.

The Law Firm of the Year award is the latest honor bestowed upon the group. In early 2024, Jackson Lees Group won a Feefo Gold Trusted Service Award for its excellent customer experience for the second year in a row.

Esther Leach, Managing Director of Jackson Lees Group, said:

We are committed to making a positive difference to our customers, our people and our communities, and we are absolutely delighted to have won this fabulous award.

Our brilliant people are absolutely exceptional at what they do. They constantly go above and beyond to achieve the best for our customers, and so to be publicly recognized in this way is fantastic.

More than 400 people attended the awards dinner. The guest speaker was Baroness Hale of Richmond, former President of the Supreme Court. Other speakers included company president Gaynor Williams and vice president James Mannouch.

Haley Farrell, Deputy Managing Director of Jackson Lees Group, said:

Winning this award is a great honor for all of us within the group and we are extremely proud of our employees.

The legal talent in the Merseyside area is staggering and we have been nominated alongside some other fantastic firms. We congratulate everyone who has won an award and been shortlisted.

Jackson Lees Group is part of the MAPD Group, founded by Brian Cullen and Joanna Kingston-Davies in 2020 to drive the growth of local law firms nationally through acquisitions. The initials stand for Making a Positive Difference.