Martyn Gowar, a consultant at Lawrence Graham, and John Rhodes, a senior adviser at Macfarlanes, were both given lifetime achievement awards last week at the Society of Trusts and Estate Practitioners (STEP) private client awards for 2006. Macfarlanes also won London legal team of the year, while Mills & Reeve was awarded regional legal team of the year. London firm Bircham Dyson Bell was named charity team of the year. Other legal winners included Withers' head of private client John Riches and Emma Chamberlain QC, who won the outstanding achievement award for their work on mitigating the government's proposed changes to the taxation of trusts.