SPONSORS
We’re pre-employment screening experts. Entrepreneurial and agile. Passionate about service.
Accurate has arrived in the UK via the acquisition of Vero Screening on 19 July 2022. Since Vero’s inception in 2006, our fundamental desire has been to support our clients and their candidates. We’re committed to excellent technology and the integrity of our data and systems, while our experienced team focus on our partnerships.
Since we’ve become Accurate, we’ve kept that ethos. But now, we’re global. We work as one. Better able to serve your needs and support you with an outstanding screening experience: to make every hire the start of a success story.
Talk to us about:
- Pre-Employment Screening
- Pay-As-You-Go Screening
- International Employee Screening
- Criminal Record Checks
- Social Media Searches
- SMCR & Employment Screening
And much more.
Get in touch with our experts for a free, tailored discussion about your individual requirements at ukenquiries@accurate.com, or call us on +44 (0) 1273 203 090.
Find out more about our screening services at https://www.accurate.com/uk/.
Sponsors of: HR Team of the Year
Blackbridge Communications is an employer branding and engagement agency that operates internationally from London.
Our client list includes Amazon, Aviva, BAE Systems, Barclays, CMS, Clifford Chance, Dentons, Entain, Microsoft, Siemens and The TJX Group. We’re highly experienced at delivering employer brands, early talent campaigns, engagement initiatives, social media content, careers websites and recruitment campaigns. Our work is high quality and has resulted in more than 95 award nominations over the last four years alone.
We offer a full agency service, employing nearly 40 specialists across the fields of Consulting, Creative and Channels. We are employee-owned, which greatly empowers our own recruitment and engagement, and in turn enhances our client service and product quality.
Find out more about Blackbridge at blackbridge.co.uk.
Sponsors of: Grand Prix
Clyde & Co’s employment team are dedicated to advising clients on all the ‘people’ issues that they face. With a focus on the professional services sector, they deal with all partner and employment issues, including hiring, assisting in change programmes, managing and resolving disputes when they arise (including partner disputes), and much more.
We are part of Clyde & Co’s Professional Practices group which brings our employment and partnership lawyers together with our leading professional liability and regulatory lawyers, and our corporate and commercial lawyers. We can assist with any issues your law firm faces.
Clyde & Co’s employment team are recognised in Legal 500: ‘Excellent technical knowledge, responsive, pragmatic and has a great ability to provide simple and clear advice to tricky matters.’
Sponsors of: Excellence in ED&I
Cyan Partners is a specialist Legal Search and Recruitment company with deep expertise across Private Practice, Law Firm Risk & Compliance, and In-House. Our approach is defined by strong values, trusted relationships, and a commitment to delivery. We offer tailored solutions in the following areas:
• Law Firm Partners
• Law Firm Senior Risk & Compliance Professionals
• In-House Counsel (particularly in the renewables, clean and climate tech sectors)
Cyan Partners is proud to be a Certified B Corp. We are committed to B Corp aims and doing business in a way that reflects who we are. We support charities close to our hearts, including contributing 2% of our turnover to charities working for a fairer and sustainable future.
To find out more about who we are, and why we are trusted advisors to clients and candidates alike, meet our dedicated Cyan Partners Team.
Sponsors of: Best Social Mobility Initiative
Making retirement a positive experience
Futurum Group works with professional services firms to help make retirement a more positive experience for both them and the individuals approaching retirement.
What we do:
- Help to design a retirement policy that delivers effective succession planning, a smooth transition and protects goodwill
- Deliver workshops and webinars on how to plan and prepare for retirement and design a fulfilling Encore stage
- Help alleviate apprehension and support senior leaders to be good leavers through 1-1 Encore Coaching™
Founders Graeme Menzies and Sarah Harrison have been working with firms since 2020. Graeme’s retirement coaching reflects his experience of retiring after 30 years as a partner with a major law firm.
Firms are recognising the importance of getting retirement right.
Half the firms we surveyed have experienced ‘challenging’ retirements. Sudden departures led to a loss of experience and goodwill, inadequate succession arrangements and contentious discussions requiring lengthy management input and hefty compensation pay-outs.
Download our White Paper here: https://www.futurumgroup.co.uk/a-new-beginning
To arrange a free of charge, no-obligation, 30 minute consultation contact:
Sarah Harrison
07581148550
Graeme Menzies
07771564520
Sponsors of: Excellence in Employer Branding
Pioneering student futures.
Powering the next generation of solicitors. The route into law is changing fast, from training contracts to solicitor apprenticeships and SQE-led qualification. At the same time, firms face growing pressure to improve access, increase diversity, and deliver a seamless candidate experience at scale. We help law firms meet that challenge head-on.
Working with 70+ UK law firms, we design and deliver high-impact early careers strategies; attracting, engaging and hiring top talent across trainee, apprenticeship and work experience programmes.
Critically, we don’t stop at attraction.
We bring deep operational expertise in managing the recruitment process end-to-end, from application through to assessment, selection and onboarding. Whether as a fully outsourced solution or an extension of your in-house team, we streamline hiring, reduce administrative burden, and improve speed, consistency and quality of hire. Our early careers TA technology stack and insight enable fair, data-driven decision making at scale, while delivering a best-in-class candidate experience aligned to your brand.
Through our integrated ecosystem, we connect you with diverse, high potential ‘future lawyer’ talent.
We are also committed to widening participation and diversity, helping firms build inclusive pipelines that reflect the society they serve, from outreach through to hire.
The future of law depends not just on who you attract, but how effectively you hire.
To find out more, contact roko.kostan@groupgti.com
Sponsors of: Best Early Talent Recruitment Campaign
Hemisphere is the multi-award-winning brain-training platform from Rare Technology that helps disrupt bias, build awareness of people from different backgrounds and change behaviour.
Developed with experts in the fields of neuroscience, psychology and sociology, Hemisphere distils Rare’s twenty years of expertise on ethnicity and social mobility into easily digested insights, providing practical tips on how to combat bias in the workplace.
During testing with interviewers, senior leaders and HR professionals, more than 80% of participants found the training useful and 80% had their biases identified and disrupted.
Sponsors of: Excellence in Learning & Development
Specialist Employee Benefits Solutions for the Legal Sector
Howden provides specialist, insight led employee benefits advice to the legal sector. Over 20% of the top 100 firms and hundreds more regional UK law firms trust us to help them design benefits strategies that support their people, manage risk, and strengthen business performance. Our award-winning team combines deep sector knowledge with practical, commercial thinking. We focus on what works, delivering tailored, people first benefits programmes that help firms attract and retain talent while keeping a clear line of sight on value and outcomes.
Legal Sector Insight That Drives Action
In partnership with People in Law, we delivered the Employee Benefits in the Legal Sector 2025/26 research, highlighting how firms are responding to rising cost pressures, changing workforce expectations, and growing wellbeing needs. We continue to share these insights across our legal sector activity, helping HR and Reward leaders benchmark their approach, sense check priorities, and take confident, informed action.
A Partner to Your Firm
We work alongside law firms as a long-term partner, not just a provider, bringing specialist expertise, market insight, and future focused thinking. The result is benefits strategy that reflects your culture, supports your people, and delivers measurable impact.
To find out how we can support your firm, your employees, and your future, book a meeting with us:
E: employeebenefits@howdengroup.com
W: www.howdengroup.com/uk-en/employee-benefits-for-the-legal-sector
Sponsors of: Excellence in People Experience: Wellbeing & Reward
LinkedIn connects the world’s professionals to make them more productive and successful and transforms how companies hire, learn, market and sell. Our vision is to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce through the ongoing development of the world’s first Economic Graph. LinkedIn has over 1.3 billion members and has offices around the globe. www.linkedin.com
Sponsors of: Excellence in AI for People & Talent
We believe businesses thrive when their people do.Our People Solutions team helps organisations design tailored, cost effective employee benefits programmes that attract and retain top talent, promote wellbeing and offer your people choice.
Over 1,600 UK law firms trust Lockton’s expertise, giving us unique insights and experiences to help you manage your workforce challenges, risks and opportunities.
Whether you’re a magic circle firm or regional practice, we build solutions around your objectives, culture and long-term outcomes – never forcing you into a model that doesn’t fit. The result? Strategies that evolve with you and benefit packages that are truly valued by your people.
We’d love to talk.
Contact Lucie Gosling-Myers to find out how we can help your firm flourish.
T: +44 7721 327 427 | E: lucie.gosling-myers@lockton.com
Visit: www.global.lockton.com/gb/en/lockton-for-the-legal-sector
Sponsors of: Rising Star
Performance Leader helps professional services firms become firms of the future, building vibrant feedback cultures that unleash the creative, collaborative and entrepreneurial strengths of their people. Trusted by leading UK and international law firms, our platform has been purpose-built over 20 years for the way partnerships actually work.
Rethinking the Remuneration Committee
Nowhere is this work more sensitive, or more consequential, than in the Remuneration Committee room. Our purpose-built RemCom platform equips committee chairs and members with the context, data and confidence to reach fairer compensation decisions in less time, bringing clarity to a process that has too often relied on memory, spreadsheets and hallway conversations, and helping to build partnership cohesion and trust in the outcome.
A complete performance and feedback platform
Alongside RemCom, we offer a full Partner Contribution Management solution and an Employee Performance and Feedback suite: reviews, check-ins, real-time feedback, objectives, shared client and sector plans, team debriefs and training diaries. More than 20 embedded AI tools, trained on the language and workflow of professional services firms, hand time back to busy partners and their teams.
A trusted advisor, not just a vendor
We partner closely with firm leadership and HR teams to keep evolving the feedback culture, drawing on our research, product development and deep sector expertise. Our publications, including 'The Partner Remuneration Handbook', are widely read across the profession. Interested in a conversation?
Come and find us on the night, visit www.performanceleader.com, or email paul.lemon@performanceleader.com
Sponsors of: Excellence in Recruitment
SD Worx UK is a trusted payroll and HR services partner to leading UK law firms, including three of the five Magic Circle firms.
With over 80 years of experience and deep expertise in regulated environments, we help firms deliver secure, accurate and resilient payroll that stands up to regulatory scrutiny and audit demands. Our services are backed by ISO 27001 , ISO 9001 , Cyber Essentials Plus and CIPP accreditation , and recognised by Gartner and NelsonHall for payroll and HR services excellence.
Our solutions support the realities of legal practice; complex pay structures, partnership models, confidentiality requirements, mergers and acquisitions, and the need for uninterrupted service.
Trusted by thousands of organisations across Europe, SD Worx UK enables law firms to operate with certainty, control and peace of mind.
Sponsors of: Best People Professional
Totum Partners is the market leading business services recruitment and executive search firm, offering unparalleled expertise in sourcing, recruiting, and placing exceptional talent for legal and professional services firms.
Working across all business services functions, we help firms structure and resource their teams from scratch, scoping out roles and capabilities. Our extensive network allows us to source the best professional services talent from a range of sectors, helping firms accelerate positive change through their people.
Totum Partners' dedicated HR team is available to support individuals and firms across both generalist and specialist roles in areas like talent development, DEI, reward, employee relations, recruitment, health and wellbeing, responsible business and more. We work at all levels of seniority, from advisor/officer roles up to and including Director and Chief.
We pride ourselves on the enduring relationships we have built across the sector, helping HR teams to grow and develop by applying our market knowledge and expertise to this critical function. Whatever HR skills you need, we are on hand to advise and then deliver.
If you would like to find out more about how we could help you with your HR recruitment needs or simply want to have a chat about the latest market trends, contact our dedicated HR team:
laura.mcnair@totumpartners.com, hannah.leonsoon@totumpartners.com or briony.jenkins@totumpartners.com