Awards & accreditations

Many Russell-Cooke teams and people are leaders in their fields, winning peer-group accolades in areas as diverse as commercial property, regulation, crime and childcare law.

Russell-Cooke is a Lexcel accredited law firm:

Lexcel is the Law Society's practice management standard. The Lexcel practice management standard is only awarded to solicitors who meet the high management and customer care standards. Lexcel accredited practices undergo rigorous independent assessment every year to ensure they meet required standards of excellence in areas such as client care, case management and risk management.

Rankings

The Times Best Law Firms 2025

The 2025 edition ranked us in three of the report’s key categories—Business Law, Public Law and Private Client—and in a further five specialist areas Charities, Crime, Family, Inheritance and Succession Planning/Private Client and Landlord and Tenant.

This annual law firm ranking is based on research amongst solicitors in England and Wales who are asked which practice they would instruct in each area of work.

The firm has been listed every year since the report was launched in 2019. From the list, only 16 firms, including Russell-Cooke, have commendations in all three of the main categories of Business Law, Public Law and Private Client.

ePrivate Client 2024

Russell-Cooke has been listed by eprivateclient for over a decade as among the best private client legal teams in the UK. We are also recognised by ePrivateClient as a Top Family Law Firm.

Directories

Chambers and Legal 500 are the leading legal directories in the UK. Both are based on references from research with clients, referrers, co-professionals and peers as well as submissions provided by the firm itself.

Chambers UK 2025

In the latest edition 54 Russell-Cooke lawyers are ranked across 15 categories, including four Band 1 team rankings. Chambers listed Russell-Cooke as in the top 10 firms with the highest proportion of women ranked.

Chambers High Net Worth 2024

20 of the firm’s experts are ranked across five categories: Family/Matrimonial: Finance: High Net Worth, Private Wealth Law, Private Wealth Disputes, Real Estate: High Value Residential and Defamation/Reputation Management: High Net Worth. The family team is ranked at Band 1 for the fourth year.

The Legal 500 2025

The directory ranked 36 lawyers across 28 practice areas. Five lawyers are listed in the Hall of Fame, 12 are recognised as Leading Partners, ten as Next Generation Partners and seven as Leading Associates.