Awards and recognition

We’re proud to have been again awarded the Better Health at Work award for “Maintaining Excellence” in 2024, recognising our commitment to creating a healthy workplace environment.

Building on our cumulative success within the framework, this achievement recognises our long-term dedication to Better Health at Work and completion of its Bronze, Silver, Gold and Continuing Excellence awards. 

Hugh Welch, senior partner and head of Muckle's ESG strategy, has been shortlisted. This category acknowledges truly exceptional individual contributions to improving social mobility in private practice and is open to lawyers and non-lawyers. Judges will be looking for evidence of involvement in/leadership of key initiatives to boost representation in law firms or involvement in broader industry-wide initiatives.

This award is for the best project intended to boost social mobility within the organisation/ profession by attracting and retaining talented lawyers from less privileged backgrounds, with an emphasis on initiatives focused on or led from regions outside of London.

We are certified as a B Corporation® (or B Corp™) becoming the first legal firm in the North East and Cumbria to join a growing group of companies reinventing business by pursuing purpose as well as profit. 

This award is given to the member organisations which have made a significant contribution to the development and retention of their female workforce, whilst inspiring the next female generation.

The judges commended us for our consistency in benefiting women in the workplace; we received this accolade for the second year in a row. Our mentoring, benefits package and working parents group were named as stand-out initiatives.

Investment in Additional Lengths by Growth Partner ( PE/VC Deal of the Year), Acquisition of QA Weld Tech by Express Engineering (Deal of the Year sub £10m) and Acquisition of Helston Garages Group by Vertu Motors (Deal of the Year +£10m)

This award is for the regional-based corporate lawyer judged to have been the most successful in advising regional-based businesses during the qualifying period. The judges felt Adam's high level of service, his commercial approach and his specialist reputation in investment transactions, made him the stand-out lawyer this year.

Recognising a business with a focus on developing talent through training, apprenticeships, work experience, diversity and inclusion, career progression and opening opportunities to all. We won the Grand Final after previously winning the Tyneside and Northumberland heat.

This is awarded to a business that has performed exceptionally, either in commercial terms, innovation, impact or customer service. We won the Grand Final after previously winning the Tyneside and Northumberland heat.