This year’s Hot 100 gathers together the best lawyers in the business – the cream of the crop from in-house, private practice and the bar.
The list this year features 49 female lawyers, 10 barristers, and two recently-elected managing partners alongside top class lawyers in litigation, finance, energy, real estate, life sciences, and regulation.
The 30-strong in-house cohort gathers together key general counsel from a variety of businesses, including British American Tobacco’s Jerome Abelman, BT’s Rachel Canham and News UK’s Emma Moloney. Meanwhile the management section includes innovation drivers such as Herbert Smith Freehills’ Libby Jackson and Clifford Chance’s David Bickerton.
The Hot 100 2016 includes lawyers who have truly made a difference in the wider business world – among them Associated British Foods’ Paul Lister, who helped to establish a long-lasting $14m settlement following Primark’s Rana Plaza factory disaster in India, or DWF insurance partner Michael Kingston, who adapted his expertise to advise on key shipping safety regulation in the Arctic.
This year’s raft of barristers have reached new heights. Blackstone Chambers’ Tom de la Mare QC
holds the record of acting on 10 of the 25 major cartel claims to hit the UK, while Brick Court Chambers’ Sarah Lee was awarded silk earlier this year after making a name for herself as one of the most prolific juniors when it comes to FTSE 100 clients battling in court.
Innovation has continued to be at the heart of the Hot 100. Some of the lawyers in this year’s list have transformed their own practice to go above and beyond their fee-earning duties – Bird & Bird’s Felicity Reeve and her push to expand her commercial practice into less conventional sports, or Addleshaw Goddard’s Andrew Rosling, who spearheaded the development of an app for doing business in Africa alongside his fee-earning responsibilities, are just two examples.
All of the 100 lawyers on the list have made an impact not just on the performance of their firms, companies or chambers, but also the wider business community. Hundreds of recommendations from across the industry poured in to support their nominations – find out why they made the list here.
The Hot 100 2016
