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Legal Director Alice Kinder has been named as one of the UK's four Diversity Champions at the Women and Diversity in Law Awards in London.
Judges described how the efforts of Ms Kinder - an employment lawyer who has been with Bexley Beaumont for the past three years - to improve social mobility in the legal industry were "truly bettering things".
The national award is the latest personal recognition for Midlands-based Ms Kinder, who served a 12-month term as the Birmingham Law Society's youngest ever President in 2023.
Bexley Beaumont, co-founder and Chief Executive, Karen Bexley, said that the award was "rich reward" for Ms Kinder's long-standing contribution to social mobility.
"Alice has been an energetic champion of the social mobility cause even before she joined us, both within her casework and her campaigning activities.
"Indeed, one of the reasons why she came to Bexley Beaumont was because the way in which we work afforded her greater control and autonomy to pursue those efforts than she might have had at more traditional law firms.
"It is wonderful that all her hard work has been recognised - firstly, in Birmingham and now on a national stage. "It is wonderful that all her hard work has been recognised - firstly, in Birmingham and now on a national stage.
"She is a real asset to our firm and to all those on whose behalf she works and campaigns."
Ms Kinder's arrival at Bexley Beaumont was itself evidence of the firm's unique structure and approach.
Unlike other fee share practices, Bexley Beaumont has fee share associates and fee share legal directors supporting partners across the numerous individual disciplines in which it works.
In December 2022, Ms Kinder became only the second fee share Associate recruited and was subsequently promoted to Legal Director 18 months later.
Organisers for the Women and Diversity in Law Awards have stated how they received 350 "exceptional" entries for prizes in 31 separate categories.
Ms Kinder was one of eight finalists in the Diversity Champion of the Year - Private Practice Lawyer section and received her prize in a ceremony at London Marriott Hotel Grosvenor Square.
In paying tribute to Ms Kinder's achievement, competition judges outlined how her efforts had been "shaped by the challenges of her own working-class upbringing".
As well as noting her time leading the Birmingham Law Society, they also recognised her founding of the city Society's social mobility subcommittee and her role as a social mobility ambassador for the Law Society of England and Wales.
Ms Kinder's triumph comes just months after an announcement that Bexley Beaumont's investment of time and resources in becoming a more sustainable business had paid off.
In January, it became one of only 38 law firms nationwide to attain the status of B-Corp, the prestigious international standard for sustainability and governance.
The news followed a rigorous two-year assessment, during which Bexley Beaumont recorded one of the highest scores of any qualifying legal practice in England and Wales in the process.
