DWF Legal 500 rankings, 2017
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Ireland, 2017
- Insurance: Insurance
London, 2017
- Human resources: Health and safety
- Insurance: Personal injury: defendant
- Dispute resolution: Debt recovery
- Finance: Commodities: physicals
- Human resources: Pensions: dispute resolution
- Insurance: Insurance and reinsurance litigation
- Insurance: Product liability: defendant
- Insurance: Professional negligence
- Public sector: Local government
- Transport: Travel: personal injury
- Human resources: Employment: senior executives
- Real estate: Property finance
- Risk advisory: Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity
- Insurance: Insurance: corporate and regulatory
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms): Brand management
- Human resources: Employment: employers
- Transport: Shipping
- Real estate: Commercial property: general
- Dispute resolution: Commercial litigation
North, 2017
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms): Intellectual property
- Real estate: Commercial property: Newcastle
- Real estate: Social housing
- Corporate and commercial: Corporate and commercial: Newcastle
- Dispute resolution: Commercial litigation: Newcastle
- Private client: Personal tax trusts
and probate - Human resources: Employment
North West, 2017
- Corporate and commercial: EU and competition
- Dispute resolution: Commercial litigation: Liverpool
- Dispute resolution: Commercial litigation: Manchester
- Human resources: Employment
- Human resources: Health and safety
- Human resources: Immigration
- Insurance: Personal injury: defendant
- Private client: Family
- Public sector: Local government
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms): IT and telecoms
- Corporate and commercial: Corporate and commercial: Manchester
- Corporate and commercial: Corporate tax
- Crime, fraud and licensing: Licensing
- Finance: Banking and finance
- Human resources: Pensions
- Insurance: Professional negligence
- Private client: Charities and not-for-profit
- Private client: Contentious trusts and probate
- Private client: Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Projects, energy and natural resources: Energy
- Real estate: Commercial property: Liverpool
- Real estate: Commercial property: Manchester
- Real estate: Property litigation
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms): Intellectual property
- Transport: Transport
- Corporate and commercial: Corporate and commercial: Liverpool
- Crime, fraud and licensing: Crime: fraud
- Dispute resolution: Banking litigation
- Finance: Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Real estate: Construction
Northern Ireland, 2017
- Dispute resolution: Dispute resolution
- Finance: Banking and finance
- Finance: Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Insurance: Personal injury and clinical negligence: defendant
- Real estate: Commercial property
Scotland, 2017
- Real estate: Commercial property: leisure and hospitality
- Real estate: Commercial property: retail occupiers
- Finance: Banking and finance
- Human resources: Pensions
- Insurance: Personal injury: defender
- Insurance: Professional negligence
- Public sector: Local government
- Real estate: Commercial property: Edinburgh and Glasgow
- Real estate: Property litigation
- Corporate and commercial: Corporate and commercial: Edinburgh and Glasgow
- Corporate and commercial: EU and competition
- Dispute resolution: Commercial litigation
- Projects, energy and natural resources: Energy (excluding oil and gas)
- Real estate: Planning
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms): Intellectual property
- Finance: Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Projects, energy and natural resources: Projects
- Transport: Transport
- Human resources: Employment
South East, 2017
- Insurance: Personal injury: defendant
South West, 2017
- Insurance: Personal injury: defendant
- Insurance: Professional negligence
West Midlands, 2017
- Dispute resolution: Commercial litigation: Birmingham
- Insurance: Personal injury: defendant
- Transport: Transport
- Corporate and commercial: Corporate tax
- Insurance: Professional negligence
- Private client: Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Dispute resolution: Debt recovery
- Finance: Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Human resources: Employment
- Human resources: Health and safety
- Public sector: Local government
- Corporate and commercial: Corporate and commercial: Birmingham
- Finance: Banking and finance
- Real estate: Commercial property: Birmingham
- Real estate: Property litigation
Yorkshire and the Humber, 2017
- Corporate and commercial: EU and competition
- Insurance: Personal injury: defendant
- Private client: Charities and not-for-profit
- Public sector: Local government
- Dispute resolution: Debt recovery
- Human resources: Health and safety
- Human resources: Employment: Leeds and West Yorkshire; North Yorkshire
- Real estate: Commercial property: Leeds and West Yorkshire; North Yorkshire
- Corporate and commercial: Corporate tax
- Dispute resolution: Commercial litigation: Leeds and West Yorkshire; North Yorkshire
- Real estate: Construction
- Real estate: Property litigation
- Corporate and commercial: Corporate and commercial: Leeds, West Yorkshire, North Yorkshire
- Finance: Banking and finance
- Finance: Insolvency and corporate recovery