OTC are delighted with another stellar set of rankings in the Legal 500 2024 Guide

The Legal 500 2024 rankings were announced on Wednesday 4th October 2023. Outer Temple chambers are delighted with another year of excellent results.

We are proud to announce that we have been recognised as a Top Tier Set in Crypto and blockchain assets, recommended in 9 practice areas and have received 19 Leading Silk, 5 New Silk, 48 Junior and 5 Rising Star rankings.

View this year’s highlights for each of our practice areas below:

Crypto and blockchain assets

In addition to winning the Technology, Data and Crypto Set of the Year award at The Legal 500 2023 Bar Awards, we have been recognised as a Top Tier Set in Crypto and blockchain assets. The awards, along with the promotion of rankings listed below are testament to the teams hard work over the past 12 months.

• Top Tier set
• Andrew Spink KC – ranked tier 1 (previously tier 4)
• Helen Pugh & Justina Stewart – ranked tier 1 (previously unranked in this category)
• Henry Reid – ranked tier 2 (previously unranked in this category)

Clinical Negligence

• Recognised set with 14 members ranked
• Olinga Tahzib – ranked tier 4 (previously rising star)
• James Counsell KC – ranked tier 4 (previously tier 5)
• Sarah Crowther KC – ranked tier 4 (previously tier 5)
• Jonathan Hand KC – ranked tier 3 (previously tier 4)
• Rachel Vickers KC – ranked tier 4 (previously 2021 Silk)
• Will Young – ranked tier 4 (previously tier 5)
• Tom Gibson – tanked tier 3 (previously tier 4)

Employment

• Recommended set with 17 members ranked
• Elizabeth Grace – Rising Star
• Keith Bryant KC – New Silk (previously ranked tier 4)
• Saul Margo – Tier 2 (previously ranked tier 3)
• Gus Baker – Tier 4 (previously rising star)
• Victoria Brown – Tier 4 (previously ranked tier 5)
• Imogen Egan – Tier 5 (previously rising star)

Financial services regulation

• Recognised set in this area
• Henry Reid – Rising Star
• Michael Uberoi – Tier 2 (previously ranked tier 3)

Health & Safety

• Recognised set, with 4 key players in the Health & Safety market
• Oliver Powell – Tier 1 (maintained ranking for past 3 years)
• Paul Roger – Tier 4 (previously unranked in this category)

Pensions

• Recognised set, with 12 ranked members
• Lydia Seymour – Tier 1 (previously tier 2)
• David Grant, Tier 1 (previously 2022 Silk)

Personal Injury, industrial disease, and insurance fraud

• Recognised set, with 14 ranked members
• Carin Hunt – Rising Star
• James Counsell KC – Tier 2 (previously tier 3)
• Eliot Woolf KC – Tier 3 (previously tier 4)
• Sarah Crowther KC – Tier 2 (previously tier 3)
• Dan Clarke – Tier 3 (previously tier 5)
• Ian Denham – Tier 3 (previously tier 4)
• Will Young – Tier 4 (previously tier 5)
• Olinga Tahzib – Tier 5 (previously rising star)

Product Liability

• New ranking as a recognised set, with 3 members ranked
• Gerard Mcdermott KC
• Nathan Tavares
• Robert Dickason

Professional disciplinary and regulatory law

• Recognised set, with 6 members ranked
• James Leonard – New Silk (previously tier 2)
• Matthew McDonagh – Tier 2 (previously tier 3)

Professional negligence

• Recognised set, with 7 members ranked
• Andrew Spink KC – Tier 3 (previously unranked in this category)
• David Grant KC – Tier 1 (previously 2022 silk)
• Helen Pugh – Tier 5 (previously tier 6)

Sport

• Sam Cuthbert – Rising Star
• Louis Weston – Tier 2 (ranking maintained)

Court of protection

• Claire van Overdijk – Tier 1 (previously tier 3)
• Alex Cisneros – Tier 3 (previously tier 4)

Education

• Alex Line – Tier 3 (previously tier 4)

Banking and finance

• Henry Reid – Rising Star
• James Counsell KC – Tier 2 (previously tier 5)
• Justina Stewart – Tier 2 (previously tier 5)
• Stephen Doherty – Tier 3 (previously unranked in this category)

Business regulatory crime

• Oliver Powell – Tier 2 (previously tier 3)
• Alex Haines – Tier 3 (ranking maintained)
• Sophie O’Sullivan – Tier 3 (ranking maintained)

A huge congratulations to all of our members and Practice Managers/Directors within these teams for another year of excellent results.

A particular thank you to all our clients and colleagues for taking the time to provide references.

Find out more

To find out more on the barristers and teams listed above, contact our Practice Managers for a confidential discussion on +44 (0)20 7353 6381.

News 6 Oct, 2023