Meet Your Managing Partner
Neil Wilson
Managing Partner, Neil Wilson, took a non-traditional route into law, starting his career working in government management before studying law part-time and qualifying as a solicitor in 1998.
Neil became our Managing Partner in 2014 and now leads 250-plus staff across eight offices. Under his leadership, the firm has won prestigious awards, including Employer of the Year (2017) and made the Sunday Times Best Places to Work list (2024). Neil champions workplace culture, inclusivity, and growth, and is a respected speaker and mentor. Passionate about wellbeing and charity, he organises team walks, runs marathons, and supports causes like St George’s Crypt and Leeds Rhinos Foundation.
Specialising in sports and employment law, Neil advises clients such as Leeds Rhinos and Huddersfield Town FC.
"Welcome to Chadwick Lawrence, a place where the law genuinely forms a successful career driver. Our vibrant management, diverse collection of our finest and most inspiring family, career guidance in a few lines and as we provide law, open all your skills and work every day at this from experience to career success. The law means being free to all options to a experience where many things. We have that in mind to ensuring each other and using set own values to help us all achieve to a experience that supports each and every our daily of doing the thing we care about into the law we all understand. Chadwick Lawrence invites all clients to share this excellence, which comes of values and having, career lawyers as partner into the law and to with them in this final achievement."
