Legal directories and awards

Directories uncovered – do you really want to know?

If you could eavesdrop on a conversation that's about you, would you? And would you expect all the comments to be good? With the Chambers & Partners guide to the legal profession now out, firms can opt to pay for a 'Chambers Unpublished' report – a report of anonymised comments made...


Legal directories: just a vanity exercise?

Picture the scene. One of the leading directories - The Legal 500 or Chambers & Partners - is published. Next morning the phone rings, and it's one of your lead clients. "I see you dropped a tier this year - so on reflection, we're thinking finish off your current matters...


Do the directories still matter?

I’m on a panel at the IBA next week discussing how law firms can best spend their marketing budgets and one of the questions we will be discussing is whether the directories still matter. Some of you may remember that a few years ago, the publishers of the Legal 500 booked...