Our Awards

Winckworth Sherwood awarded prestigious Lexcel accreditation

Winckworth Sherwood LLP is delighted to announce that we have been awarded Lexcel accreditation, which is the Law Society's practice management quality standard for law firms.

Lexcel is a prestigious achievement involving rigorous independent assessment to show that a firm is not only meeting but excelling practice management standards, covering areas such as client care, case management, financial management and risk assessment.

Senior partner Keith Jenkins commented "We are delighted to have so successfully embodied the Lexcel requirements into our quality systems. It represents an enormous positive engagement from everyone in the firm to drive forward improvement. Achieving Lexcel accreditation is a tribute to the commitment and dedication of all members of our staff."

Winckworth Sherwood wins award as finalist in "Best practice" awards programme

Winckworth Sherwood received a finalist award at the recent SNW Autumn 2010 awards sponsored by Computerworld and the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA). The event identifies and acknowledges excellence among IT user-organisations in its “Best practice” awards programme.

Infrastructure Manager, Ashvin Patel, accepted the award on behalf of Winckworth Sherwood at the SNW's Best Practices Awards Program in Texas, a Computerworld & Storage Networking Industry Association sponsored event.

The finalists were honoured during the SNW Autumn conference in Dallas, Texas, on 13 October 2010. Winckworth Sherwood was nominated for its implementation of a data recovery platform that supports remote disaster recovery and application failover/failback at both remote and local sites, an integral part of Winckworth Sherwood’s business continuity strategy.

Winckworth Sherwood partner wins Sainsbury's Lawyer of the Year 2009

Robert Botkai, head of Property & Licensing was named Sainsbury's Legal Community Lawyer of the Year at their Legal Community Conference held on 22nd May 2009 for the supermarket giant's panel of legal advisers.

The award, which was announced by Sainsbury's Head of Legal Services Nick Grant, was in recognition of Robert's role in leading the specialist team at Winckworth Sherwood, undertaking all Sainsbury's alcohol and late night refreshment licensing requirements in England and Wales.

Winckworth Sherwood has acted for Sainsbury's since 2000, undertaking an increasing range of the company's licence applications in England and Wales and this relationship was formalised by tender in 2008. The firm also handles some of Sainsbury's licensing requirements in Scotland.

Winckworth Sherwood has a significant involvement in the licensed trade, acting for leading retailers, garage forecourt operators, restaurants, bars, nightclubs, cinemas and some of London's most prestigious hotels, as well as working for other law firms on the licensing aspects of commercial transactions.

Winckworth Sherwood won "Most Client-Focused Law Firm" at the Legal Technology Awards 2008

Winckworth Sherwood's IT team reaped the prestigious award for the "Most Client Focused Law Firm" at the Legal Technology Awards ceremony held on 31 January 2008 at the Marriot hotel, Grosvenor Square.

The award was won for a project that created an extranet solution which allows our client to manage its huge property portfolio of over 18,000 owned properties.

The extranet solution is a valuable property management tool. The multi-functional features and powerful search and export facility provide immediate access to information pertaining to a single property or batch of properties. All users can see at a glance whether a current legal instruction applies to a property or properties, property type, value, tenancy type, title number, lender and charge details (where applicable).

The product is invaluable to the client and Winckworth Sherwood as it has helped to improve business relationships as a result of the close collaborative working that this extranet supports.