Legal 500 - The North West's Top Table 2009

For the 22nd year publisher Legalease has produced its UK Legal 500 – a publication that, as the name suggests, identifies the country’s top 500 law firms. It then subdivides these into regions (identifying the best all-rounders as ”Regional Heavyweights”) and specialisations – further dividing them into tiers according to their expertise and market strength within each of those specialities.

The last two years have seen major shifts in the legal world, with the traditionally sexy areas of corporate and commercial experiencing a massive drop-off business – with ensuing redundancies – while employment lawyers and restructuring specialists have never been so busy.

Here we present a précis of the Legal 500’s findings for a range of specialisations of likely interest to entrepreneurs in the North West. Firms are split into tiers and, within each of these, listed in alphabetical order.

Click on the links at the bottom of this page to see how the region’s firms line up in various disciplines.

Regional Heavyweights