Kennedys achieves strong results in Chambers & Partners UK 2025 guide

Kennedys has once again been recognised in the Chamber & Partners guide to the UK's leading law firms and lawyers.

The firm has been ranked in a total of 23 practice areas in Chambers UK 2025, including 10 rankings in the Band 1 category. In addition, 53 lawyers have been individually recognised within the guide (see full breakdown further down).

These results reach across the spectrum of the firm's expertise and services, including insurance and reinsurance, clinical and professional negligence, personal injury, product liability, life sciences and healthcare, health and safety, travel, transport, aviation and shipping, construction, employment and real estate.

Kennedys has technical knowledge, legal prowess and approachability. The team quickly understands the complex issues at heart.

Chambers UK 2025

The rankings reflect comprehensive analysis undertaken by Chambers & Partners' legal directory research teams. Along with robust assessments of law firm submissions, they also conduct interviews with thousands of clients to establish firms' breadth of expertise and client service, which plays a key role in informing the results.

Chambers UK 2025 follows on from The Legal 500 UK 2025 guide launched earlier this month, in which Kennedys also secured top rankings.

See below for a full breakdown of Kennedys' practice area rankings and lawyer accolades:

Our 2025 practice area rankings are as follows:

UK-wide

Aviation | Band 2
Clinical Negligence: Mainly Defendant | Band 1
Health & Safety | Band 1
Insurance: Contentious Claims & Reinsurance | Band 1
Insurance: Volume Claims | Spotlight
Life Sciences: Product Liability | Band 1
Personal Injury: Mainly Defendant | Band 1
Product Liability: Mainly Defendant | Band 1
Shipping | Band 3
Transport: Logistics | Band 1
Travel: International Personal Injury | Band 1

London

Construction: Contentious | Band 5
Professional Negligence | Band 2
Construction: Professional Negligence | Band 2

Midlands

Professional Negligence: Mainly Defendant | Band 2

North West

Professional Negligence | Band 1

Northern Ireland

Clinical Negligence | Band 3
Personal Injury: Mainly Defendant | Band 2
Professional Negligence | Band 1

Scotland

Insurance | Band 2
Personal Injury: Mainly Defendant | Band 3
Professional Negligence | Band 3

South West

Professional Negligence: Mainly Defendant | Band 3

Our 2025 lawyer rankings are as follows:

UK-wide

Adam Longney | Asset Finance: Aviation Finance | Band 3
Simon Balls | Aviation: Insurance | Band 2
Noelia Mann | Aviation: Insurance | Band 3
Alexandra Rodina | Aviation: Insurance | Band 3
Mark Welbourn | Aviation: Insurance | Band 3
Tom Armstrong | Clinical Negligence | Band 4
Ed Glasgow | Clinical Negligence | Band 2
Christopher Malla | Clinical Negligence | Band 1
Rob Tobin | Clinical Negligence | Band 3
Danny McShee | Health & Safety | Band 1
David Wright | Health & Safety | Band 4
Nathan Buckley | Health & Safety | Band 3
Stephanie Power | Health & Safety | Star Associates
John Bruce | Insurance | Band 3
David Chadwick | Insurance | Band 1
Patrick Foss | Insurance | Band 1
Ingrid Hobbs | Insurance | Band 3
Nick Thomas | Insurance | Senior Statespeople
Nick Williams | Insurance | Senior Statespeople
Chris Zavos | Insurance | Band 2
Trevor Davies | Life Sciences: Product Liability | Senior Statesperson
Samantha Silver | Life Sciences: Product Liability | Band 1
Daniel Freeman | Mental Health: Providers | Band 2
Rob Tobin | Mental Health: Providers | Band 2
Tom Walshaw | Police Law: Mainly Defendant | Band 2
Mark Burton | Personal Injury: Mainly Defendant | Band 1
David Thompson | Personal Injury: Mainly Defendant | Band 4
Richard West | Personal Injury: Mainly Defendant | Band 3
Trevor Davies | Product Liability: Mainly Defendant | Senior Statesperson
Ingrid Hobbs | Product Liability: Mainly Defendant | Band 2
Samantha Silver | Product Liability: Mainly Defendant | Band 1
Christopher Dunn | Shipping | Band 4
Patrick Foss | Shipping | Band 2
Mark Lloyd | Shipping | Band 6
Chris Zavos | Shipping | Band 2
Chris Chatfield | Transport: Logistics | Band 1
Christopher Dunn | Transport: Logistics | Band 2
Justin Collins | Travel: International Personal Injury (Defendant) | Band 2
Claire Mulligan | Travel: International Personal Injury (Defendant) | Band 1
Gareth Thomas | Travel: International Personal Injury (Defendant) | Up & Coming