Hill Dickinson achieves Top Tier ranking in The Legal 500 UK 2023

Commercial law firm Hill Dickinson has achieved excellent results in the 2023 edition of industry-wide legal directory The Legal 500 UK, issued on Wednesday 28 September 2022.

The firm achieves recognition in a total of 47 practice areas, of which 13 are ranked as Top Tier and reflects the addition this year of Employment: Pensions (North West) to its most highly regarded areas of expertise.

Hill Dickinson is recommended (though not yet formally ranked) for an additional 34 practice areas.

The Legal 500 also gives individual recognition to lawyers across a wide range of practice areas, with 115 of the firm’s lawyers mentioned by name in the commentary for their standout contribution to their respective practices.

Of these, four senior partners are given personal recognition in the 2023 Hall of Fame, which is reserved for practitioners who have reached the pinnacle of their profession. They are Tony Allen (Yachts), Kiran Bhogal (Health Advisory), Jonathan Brown (Corporate) and Jeff Isaacs (Commodities).

Top Tier practice areas (arranged by business group)

Business Services

• Corporate and Commercial (Liverpool)

• Dispute Resolution: Commercial Litigation (Liverpool)

• Dispute Resolution: Debt Recovery (North West)

• Employment (North West)

• Employment: Pensions (North West)

• Private Client: Personal Tax, Trusts and Probate (North West)

• Real Estate: Property Litigation (North West)

Marine and Trade

• Dispute resolution – Commodities Disputes (London)

• Transport (North West)

Health

• Public sector - Healthcare: (London)

• Insurance: Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence – Defendant (North West)

• Public Sector: Health (North West) Public Sector: Health (Yorkshire and the Humber)

Commending his team on the firm’s results, Hill Dickinson CEO Peter Jackson said: “We’re tremendously pleased that the strength of our practice teams and the calibre of individual lawyers within those teams continues to be recognised and highly regarded in The Legal 500 rankings.

“That continuity is reflected in the high level of service we provide to our clients and in the fact that we have grown and further expanded the depth and breadth of our offering to new and different regions of the UK.

“I am particularly pleased to see personal recognition for so many of our people who not only act as excellent ambassadors for the legal profession when dealing with clients but are role models for the next generation of graduates, legal apprentices, trainees and junior lawyers we recruit into our business here at Hill Dickinson. They are learning from some of the very the best.”

The Legal 500 rankings for 2023 highlight the practice area teams that are providing the most cutting edge and innovative advice to corporate counsel, collated during the period January to June 2022 and are based on interviews and feedback from more than 300,000 buyers of legal services globally each year.

Hill Dickinson’s full results can be viewed here.