The British Legal Awards 2011 Sponsors
You need to get the right advice to the client at the right time...usually yesterday...
In urgent, high-impact situations, our small teams of senior professionals improve business performance, execute turnarounds, provide dispute services, carry out corporate investigations and offer world-class interim management.
We're called upon to help solve a wide range of critical issues. Our services for lawyers and your clients include hands-on support with:
• Competition services
• Corporate investigations
• Complex M&A transactions
• E-disclosure and data analytics
• Expert witness and litigation support
• Operational transformation
• Refinancing
• Valuation services
And, in this challenging market we help law firms, too, with their own operational transformation from good to great.
The firm has more than 900 professionals in 15 offices across North America, Europe, and Asia, and is on the web at: www.alixpartners.com
As a leading commercial law firm we listen to our clients' issues and objectives and think hard about their business and markets. Our clients are major UK businesses and public sector organisations who come to us for excellent commercial, corporate, real estate and dispute resolution legal support. Our success has been built on forging strong, long term client relationships, which enable us to deliver effective commercial advice. We're committed to delivering not just results, but an excellent service experience. Our clients have access to more than 600 people nationwide, including 77 partners and over 360 other legal professionals.
www.bondpearce.com
Conveyancing Liability Solutions (CLS) provides best in class residential and commercial title insurance products through our ConveySure® suite of policies. Our expert team of legally qualified underwriters create solutions for a range of property related issues, quickly and cost effectively, online or off.
Online - CLS offers standard title policies for restrictive covenants and absence of easements through to contaminated land.
Offline - Our expert underwriters supply solutions for more complex transactional issues such as rights of light, village greens and judicial review.
For a different approach to insurance solutions contact our expert team of underwriters on 01732 897 530 or visit www.clsl.co.uk.
Trust Innovation Expertise - Think CLS
For over 60 years, Elite has been a leading global provider of integrated financial and practice management systems and consulting services to law firms. Elite is a business within Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI) and is comprised of a team of experts with decades of experience working with some of the largest firms in the world. For more information, visit www.elite.com.
First Advantage Litigation Consulting is a global electronic disclosure and computer forensics provider founded in 2003 to support corporations and law firms involved in litigation, arbitration and internal and external investigations. Safe Harbor certified, the company can deploy its services rapidly and efficiently to clients anywhere in the world from offices and data centres in North America, the UK, Belgium, Germany, India, Hong Kong and Japan.
Key disciplines include:
· e-Disclosure: global data collection, data processing and filtering, hosting of data for legal review, translation and multilingual document review services.
· On-site processing and hosting: First Advantage deploys its processing and hosting technology at client sites across the globe, when data cannot leave a specific location due to privacy laws, corporate confidentiality and/or other jurisdictional concerns.
· Computer forensics: First Advantage employs more than 30 computer forensics experts and consultants worldwide. Specialisms include data theft and computer misuse investigations.
www.fadvlit.com

The team at FWBS Ltd have been enabling the business of law for over a decade. Our significant list of satisfied customers speaks for itself with regards of ease of adoption, solution capabilities and customer experience.
Matter Centre from FWBS provides legal professionals with unified control of their clients, tasks, workloads and all related documents and reference materials, via a single click within Microsoft Office. This central approach supports how professionals actually work by contextually organizing activities and work flow, letting them easily view, share, collaborate, and act on information, fully immersed inside the familiarity of Microsoft Office.
www.mattercentre.net

Mimecast is a leading provider of essential cloud services for Microsoft Exchange. Mimecast delivers enterprise email management services that include security, continuity and archiving. This suite of services provides total end-to-end control of business email, while minimising risk and reducing both cost and complexity. Founded in 2003, Mimecast serves thousands of customers worldwide and has offices in Europe, North America, Africa and the Middle East.
www.mimecast.com

Based in the City of London, Pearl Linguistics has become one of the UK's leading legal translation and interpreting service providers. With over 200 legal firms on its client list (including 70% of the top 100), Pearl holds approved supplier status with two of the Magic Circle; as well as regularly supplying a third.
Pearl's success has been based on an absolute commitment to quality. This attitude permeates the organisation and ensures that work is accurate, timely and reliable.
Pearl's legal translators and interpreters have both academic qualifications and vast experience in all aspects of their specialist areas.
www.pearllinguistics.com

Towry is delighted to be supporting The British Legal Awards Regional Law Firm of the Year Award for 2011.Towry is a growing wealth advice business with Chartered Financial Planner status. We provide independent financial advice and independent investment management services to private clients from 21 offices across the UK.
We have highly qualified advisers delivering professional advice and a transparent fee-based charging structure.
We work closely with legal and accountancy firms, providing financial advice services to their partners, fee earners and clients.
We believe there are three areas that set us apart from most other firms:
• Independence
• Expertise
• Client focus
To find out more about us please visit www.towry.com.
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Interested in sponsoring The British Legal Awards 2011?
To find out more about the benefits of sponsoring The British Legal Awards 2011, download the information pack, call Preya Shah on +44 (0)20 7316 9119 or click here to send an email.
Category Sponsors
Thames Water Property Searches is the official provider of CON29DW
drainage and water enquiries in London and the South East, as well as an
NLIS channel licence partner, providing a wide range of land-based
conveyancer and developer searches throughout England and Wales. Our
reputation is built on the quality of our service and we pride ourselves
on the excellent relationships we hold across the industry.
Our customers appreciate our professionalism and expertise, and we
combine industry-leading technology with dedicated and enthusiastic
people to deliver the best possible service. We believe passionately in
putting our customers at the heart of everything that we do. With quick
turnaround times, quality products and no hidden costs, our online
service is just a click away. Please visit
www.thameswater-propertysearches.co.uk
Related Awards
Hosted by Legal Week and the Corporate Counsel Middle East Group, the Corporate Counsel Middle East Awards 2012, taking place in Dubai on Thursday 17 May at The Westin Dubai Mina Seyahi.
The awards will be a celebration of legal excellence in the Middle East and will be open to in-house legal teams and law firms operating throughout the region. They will take place the day after the annual networking forum for general counsel, Legal Week Corporate Counsel Forum Middle East.
The evening will be hosted by Elias Hayek, president of the Corporate Counsel Middle East Group and vice president, legal, EAME division, Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide. Elias will also chair the judging panel, which will be made up of senior in-house lawyers and other legal and business figures from the region.
Further information on the award categories, entry procedure, venue and table bookings will be made available in due course via email, event website, Legal Week's in-house briefing enewsletter and LinkedIn In-house lawyers group.
N.B. Discounted tables and individual tickets for the awards ceremony will be made available to paid-up members of the Corporate Counsel Middle East Group.
KEY DATES FOR YOUR DIARY:
Entries open: Monday 23 January 2012
Entry deadline: Thursday 15 March 2012
Awards shortlist: Wednesday 21 March 2012
Awards ceremony: Thursday 17 May 2012






