Law firm Ward Hadaway has won a national award for the quality of its specialist property team.
The firm has been named UK Regional Law Firm of the Year for Real Estate in the Legal 500 Awards 2017.
Organised by independent legal guide Legal 500, the awards recognise outstanding performance over the past year by law firms in a range of different specialist fields.
They are awarded to elite legal practitioners and based on comprehensive research into the UK legal market, including more than 50,000 interviews with clients, intermediaries and contemporaries.
A leading firm from each region of the country is put forward for each category of the Regional Awards, so each category sees legal practices from around the country compete for the title.
Ward Hadaway fought off stiff competition from practices in Yorkshire, the Midlands, the North West, the South Coast, and East Anglia to win the Real Estate award.
The firm was also nominated in the categories of Public Sector and Projects, Energy & Natural Resources in the Legal 500 Awards.
The property team is one of the largest of its kind in the North legal sector and carries out work for a wide range of clients in the private and public sectors, including developers, housebuilders, commercial operators, large estates, agricultural businesses and major health and local government bodies.
The firm has been shortlisted for the Legal Advisors to Education Institutions award in the national Education Investor Awards, which take place later this month.