A Bermuda law firm has won a top award for expertise in employment law.

Canterbury Law — founded by Julianna Snelling and Paul Harshaw three years ago — won the accolade as best employment law firm in Bermuda from UK-based Corporate INTL magazine.

Ms Snelling said: “We are ecstatic to have received this recognition from such an international organisation in our third year of business.

“We believe this is testament to our constant drive to produce high quality advice in an efficient, personal and affordable way.”

She added: “Winning this award in the field of employment law is also especially rewarding, given that employment and labour is my particular niche area of law that I very much enjoy practising.”

Ms Snelling, a former Rhodes scholar, added that the firm now employs a total of seven people, including recent hires associate attorney Alsha Wilson and law graduate and legal researcher Husayn Symonds.

The firm also recently moved to bigger offices in the Swan Building on Victoria Street in Hamilton.

Ms Snelling added that — while the firm is boutique-style — it was also the exclusive Bermuda member of the International Employment Law Alliance, which offered access to to employment law experts in 135 countries, including all the US states and Canadian provinces.

Ms Snelling added that the firm also gave back to the community, including offering free legal advice at the Centre for Legal Advice on Angle Street in North Hamilton.

And Canterbury celebrated its award by donating $1,000 each to the Hands of Love Ministry’s back to school uniform drive for children in need and anti-domestic abuse charity Centre Against Abuse, to help them reopen its emergency shelter, which was forced to close last week due to funding problems.