Freeths Bristol wins law firm of the year 2023

By Peter Davison

8 November 2023

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Law firm Freeths has been named Law Firm of the Year at the Bristol Law Society Awards 2023

Law firm Freeths has been named Law Firm of the Year at the Bristol Law Society Awards 2023.

The awards aim to recognise the excellence of the legal profession across the region.

With over 450 people in attendance, Freeths were crowned winners amongst strong competition from well-known firms in Bristol.

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Judges recognised the firm for its incredible growth over the last five years. Launching in 2019, the 50-strong Freeths Bristol office, recently recorded an increase in revenue of 51 per cent on the previous year.

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Commenting on the win, managing partner of Freeths Bristol, Adam Watson, said: “Given that we only opened the office in 2019 this is an incredible result to which each and every one of our team has contributed to.

"I am very proud and privileged to work with such a talent bunch, who make the Bristol office stand out from the competition on so many levels.”

By Peter Davison

Peter Davison is deputy editor of The Business Magazine. He has spent his life in journalism – doing work experience in newsrooms in and around Bristol while still at school, and landing his first job on a local newspaper aged 19. By 28 he was the youngest newspaper editor in the country.

An early advocate of online news, he spent the first years of the 2000s telling his bosses that the internet posed both the biggest opportunity and greatest threat to the newspaper industry and the art of journalism. He was right on both counts.

Since 2006 he has enjoyed a career as a freelance journalist. He lives in rural Wiltshire with one wife, two children, and three cats.