The annual Client Choice Awards are awarded to corporate counsel based on a survey of more than 2000 clients subscribing to the ILO.

Recipients are recognised for the quality of their legal advice, value for money, commercial awareness, communication skills, billing transparency and structure, response time, sharing of expertise and use of technology.

The recipients were Norton White's Mark Mackrell for Aviation Law, DLA Phillips Fox's Jock McCormack for Corporate Tax Law, Norton Rose's Mitchell Mathas for Insolvency & Restructuring, Davies Collison Cave's David Weber for Intellectual Property, Allens Arthur Robinson's Peter O'Donahoo for Litigation, and Gilbert Tobin's Peter Waters for Telecommunications.