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Cyber Essentials Certified

Our Cyber Essentials Certified Accreditation is the quality mark for legal experts that shows a law firm has taken steps to protect its systems and data from cyber threats, such as hacking or data breaches.

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Resolution's members follow a Code of Practice that promotes a constructive approach to family issues and considers the needs of the whole family. The adoption of the Code has fundamentally changed the way family law is practised.

Investors in People

Investors in People accreditations are recognised around the world, making them the global benchmark when it comes to people management.

For over 30 years, we’ve worked with a huge range of organisations big and small from Public Sectors to SMEs to Charities to PLCs and anything in between.

So we know we speak your language and that through our three frameworks: We invest in people; We invest in wellbeing; and We invest in apprentices – we can offer the specific kind of support and guidance your organisation needs.

Lexcel - Practice Management Standard

Law firms that have our Lexcel Accreditation must follow rules and guidelines that help raise standards and promote a high-quality approach to practice management and client care. The Lexcel quality mark gives you peace of mind when choosing a provider of legal services.

STEP

STEP is a global professional body for practitioners specialising in inheritance, succession, and estate planning, which sets ethical standards, provides professional education, and influences public policy. Its 23,000+ members, including lawyers and trustees, assist families with wills, trusts, and cross-border tax compliance.

2027 Chambers Top Ranked UK

We conduct over 366,000 research interviews and surveys with in-house counsel every year, and receive 66,000 submissions from 10,000 firms worldwide, giving us unrivalled insight into the legal sector.

This research powers Chambers Rankings - the definitive guide to the best legal talent - and our Intelligence, which delivers the insights helping firms and in-house teams to succeed.

Our independent, rigorous research identifies the exceptional and charts the path to success, enabling legal professionals to see with clarity, decide with confidence, and plan with ambition.

Legal500 Leading Firm UK 2027

Legal 500 was founded by John Pritchard in 1987 as the original clients’ guide to law firms, the first of its kind. It is now a data-driven, AI-optimised research platform which benchmarks, informs and connects providers and users of legal services in over 100 countries worldwide.

Our research and data are trusted and relied upon by corporate clients globally as an essential part of the process, both of instructing law firms with new mandates, and when reviewing existing mandates or panels.

We exist to empower both buyers and sellers in the international legal marketplace to make better decisions and have improved outcomes for their organisations. This is achieved by leveraging a trusted, comprehensive research process with a unique, vast, proprietary and constantly updated set of client-supplied data, unrivalled in the market.

On the supply side of the legal market, every year Legal 500’s team of over 150 researchers, technologists, data analysts, journalists and content specialists collate and review 60,000+ data-submissions from law firms and conduct interviews with thousands of leading law firm partners. On the demand side, Legal 500 analyses confidential data from 300,000+ commercial law firm clients to benchmark law firms and lawyers by practice area; industry; jurisdiction; as well as by proprietary client satisfaction metrics, NPS®, and other qualitative and quantitative criteria.