Introduction
Legal awards acknowledge the market recognition of a law firm and lawyer’s success, ability, effort and, above all, excellence.
While rankings consider the accumulation of a firm or lawyer’s efforts year-on-year, awards represent the achievements of firms or lawyers during the past 12 months. Awards can be viewed as being more significant than rankings because being shortlisted or winning an award means a firm or lawyer is one of a very select number of parties considered to be “the best”.
Legal Media 360’s Awards Reports consolidate the nominations and winners of the most reputable international and regional awards, showcasing the top performers by jurisdiction.
Methodology
Atomic awards data is categorized, and naming conventions standardized. This highlights which firms, lawyers, cases and deals are receiving the greatest recognition via a nomination/win ratio.
Awards data from the following sources are used in our research:
Asian Legal Business, ALM, asialaw, Benchmark Litigation, China Business Law Journal, Chambers and Partners, China Law and Practice, India Business Law Journal, International Financial Law Review, In-house Community, Legal 500, Managing IP.
The awards period used for our research is January to December 2022.
Legal Media 360’s awards analysis splits firm awards into two distinct categories: Firm awards and Case/deal awards.
Award Categories
Firm Awards
Firm awards include categories such as practice area specific awards, practice management, diversity and inclusion and firm-wide awards (such as firm of the year).
The following data is for Indonesia
Table 1: Top 15 firms by highest number of firm award nominations
Commentary: In 2022, a total of 68 law firms were nominated for firm related awards. 36 of these firms won awards. Hadiputranto Hadinoto & Partners were nominated for and won the greatest number of awards. Of the top 15 firms, Assegaf Hamzah & Partners had the best nomination to win ratio, winning 3 in 5 of their nominations.
Case/Deal Awards
Case/deal awards recognise the firms working on the most significant matters in the past 12 months.
Table 2: Firms by highest number of case/deal award nominations
Commentary: Eleven firms won at least one case/deal award out of the twenty-five nominated firms. Assegaf Hamzah & Partners were nominated for and won the greatest number of awards, which suggests the firm led the most significant matters in Indonesia in 2022. No other firm came close to their number of nominations or wins.
Lawyer Awards
In the 12 publications examined, a total of 53 lawyers in Indonesia were nominated for awards. 32 male lawyers were nominated, compared with 21 female lawyers. The gender ratio of male-female lawyer nominations is 60 to 40 percent.
Seven out of the 53 lawyers won awards. Six were male and only one was female.
Nomination Statistics
Table 3: Firms with the highest number of lawyer award nominations
Table 4: Nominated Lawyers
Winner Statistics
Table 5: Winning firms
Table 6: Winning lawyers
Commentary: 53 lawyers from 28 firms had lawyers nominated for awards in 2022. The seven lawyers that won awards were from five firms. Hadiputranto Hadinoto & Partners and Makes & Partners both won two lawyers awards.
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