Legal 500 Editorial Guidelines

It is impossible for our editorial to live up to the aspirations of every company, and we know that there will always be companies that feel that their skills have not been properly recognized. Yes. But if the deadline for submission has passed, it may be too late for the editorial staff to take this into account. No. However, the size of the team, as well as its strength and depth, are among the factors that the editorial researcher will take into account when evaluating a practice against its competitors. Others include the quality of the work handled, the caliber of the clients, the feedback of the arbitrators, and the reputation of the individual practitioners. But a small section can still be recommended in The Legal 500. We encourage companies and groups to use the recommended logos on their websites, electronic signatures and marketing materials and, where possible, cite www.legal500.com as a source. The logos may only be used by companies, groups and individuals recommended as part of our independent research in the editorial sections of The Legal 500.

This general information (which includes confidential and non-confidential information) is an important part of our editorial and filing process. Interviews are based on a standard questionnaire. However, follow-up questions and more comprehensive conversations about specific law firms and key issues that influence the purchase of legal services are indeed the norm. This is partly due to the fact that the interviews are conducted by experienced journalists and researchers with a high level of market knowledge. Not all interviews are assignable. Throughout the year, we also receive many unsolicited comments and recommendations from customers. The first step is to provide us with a written editorial brief from law firms. You can download it from us via the Legal 500 portal. To use the portal, you must register – apply here.

You must also send us a list of customer testimonials that we may contact (to request their confidential feedback). Some companies pay for profiles, but are not recommended in the editorial. Others are recommended but choose not to create profiles. Our editorial research and rankings are based in part on audience information and market knowledge. However, we also rely on submissions from law firms in which they provide detailed background information about their firm`s strengths (e.g. the work the firm has been involved in; Branches; , experience of partners and other collaborators). Some of them will be strictly confidential. The success of The Legal 500 is based on the companies` knowledge that they can count on us to maintain this confidentiality.

We are also the only ones to publish their web statistics. We have about 18.5 million page views per year. We believe this is much more than any competitor or any comparable legal website. We believe our traffic is 2.3 times that of the Chambers & Partners website (source: semrush.com; ahrefs.com; similarweb.com) To send us your submissions, please visit submissions.legal500.com and follow the on-screen instructions to send us new documents. The search calendar and guidelines for the 2023 edition of The Legal 500 EMEA are now available below. We welcome constructive criticism and critical feedback. If you think we`re wrong, contact us (and state why you think we`re wrong). However, we do not match our rankings and editorial comments. Yes. Editorial researchers do not see profiles provided by companies (editorial research is independent of the sales process).

The editorial team expects you to file a law firm and provide a list of client references (for each area of activity in which you think you should be recommended). Client research conducted for The Legal 500 consists of two main components and includes qualitative and quantitative analyses. Each year, we write to companies asking them to provide information about their areas of expertise, asking for specific details about the work done in the previous year (some of which is confidential and not publicly available). This approach gives us a consistent level and standardized data quality, allowing us to compare legal service providers with greater accuracy and security. All historical data showing the firm and some editorials from the last 5-13 years are available as part of a set of firm profiles on our historical data website (data varies by region; data includes all firm ranking tables; individual recommended lawyers are included in the text but not included in the tables). The Legal 500 and Chambers have different editorial structures and schedules. They also have different editorial categories, fields of activity and specializations. No, we are not committed to talking to all companies. In practice, our editorial team relies mainly on the information contained in the written submissions of the law firm and clients who have been contacted via the client reference list. If you want a more in-depth analysis of your submission, editorial ranking, and market position, we have a number of reports that can be ordered before or after rankings are published. Please contact Tim Verbrugge for more information. Please refer to the editorial submission guidelines for guidance on the information we request.

For each area of activity you wish to be considered for, there should be a separate list of law firm filings and client references. Law firm submissions are an important part of our editorial research process. If you do not provide us with general information, we will only have to rely on publicly available data. In practice, this means that a law firm that does not send us a lawyer`s file is unlikely to be as well represented in our editorial and rankings. Customer references: Customer reference lists submitted after the deadline are always subject to change, but we cannot guarantee when they will be processed. And keep in mind that customer responses may come too late to be taken into account by our editorial team. Note that if you submit a client after the deadline and this reference has already been designated by another law firm, it will be too late for us to contact that client (if the client has already been notified by email, we will no longer send them an email).

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