The Legal 500 FAQs

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Here you’ll find the answers to our most frequently asked questions.

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  • Q. We have additional referees who would like to provide feedback. Can we do this?

  • Q. What is the difference between legal500.com and chambers.com?

  • Q. How can we assess the quality of our submission?

  • Q. How do I get login details to send you a submission?

  • Q. I don’t want to use The Legal 500 Portal – can I email documents direct to you instead?

  • Q. Data Protection: is our confidential information safe?

  • Q. We need help filling in the Word/Excel template

  • Q. We need The Legal 500 submissions (Word/Excel) templates

  • Q. Must we use your pre-formatted Word and Excel templates?

  • Q. We don’t have our log-in details

  • Q. How do we use The Legal 500 Portal?

  • Q. How do we access The Legal 500 Portal (submissions site)?

  • Q. How does The Legal 500 do its research?

  • Q. How do you rank law firms?

  • Q. Can we use The Legal 500 logo in our marketing?

  • Q. Can we access previous years’ rankings?

  • Q. There are broken weblinks in the text

  • Q. The editorial text contains errors

  • Q. What if our specialist practice area is not listed in The Legal 500?

  • Q. We are not happy with our firm’s ranking. How are the rankings calculated?

  • Q. If we don’t provide a Law Firm Submission, will we still be in the rankings?

  • Q. Can we speak to an editorial researcher?

  • Q. How can we be part of The Legal 500?

  • Q. Does a practice (or firm) have to be a certain size before it can be editorially recommended?

  • Q. What is the difference between Editorial and Sales?

  • Q. We think we should be recommended. What do we do?

  • Q. Can we use The Legal 500 logo in our marketing?

  • Q. What readership research is there?

  • Q. How many clients do you survey?

  • Q. How many people use The Legal 500? What are your web stats?

  • Q. Will ConvertNow handle everything in my Chambers submission?

  • Q. How do we get ConvertNow?

  • Q. Do we have to use ConvertNow?

  • Q. What is ConvertNow?

  • Q. We have done a Law Firm Submission for Chambers. Can we send you that instead?

  • Q. Data Protection: is our confidential information safe?

  • Q. Will there be any new practice areas in the upcoming editions?

  • Q. What are panel appointments? What do we insert in that section of the Word template?

  • Q. Do you interview all firms who provide a Law Firm Submission?

  • Q. Can we withdraw a Law Firm Submission?

  • Q. Can we update a Law Firm Submission?

  • Q. If we send you firm and partner profiles, do we also need to send an editorial Law Firm Submission?

  • Q. Can we include one work highlight in submissions for two or more different practice areas?

  • Q. We have a publishable work highlight, but the client’s name is confidential. What do we do?

  • Q. How many work highlights should we include in our Law Firm Submission?

  • Q. How do we send you a Law Firm Submission?

  • Q. Must we use your pre-formatted Word template?

  • Q. Where can we find the Law Firm submissions templates?

  • Q. What is a Law Firm Submission?

  • Q. Data Protection: can we trust you with our clients’ email addresses?

  • Q. We don’t think all our Client Referees have been emailed by The Legal 500. Will you please check?

  • Q. We have uploaded a Client Referee list twice. What should we do?

  • Q. We have duplicated some Client Referees. Will you delete those duplicates?

  • Q. Can we add a name to the Client Referee list we have already sent you?

  • Q. Can we remove a name from the Client Referee list we have already sent you?

  • Q. How do we send you a Client Referee list?

  • Q. How do we put the client details into the Excel spreadsheet?

  • Q. Must we use your pre-formatted Excel template?

  • Q. Where is the Client Referee template?

  • Q. Will we see our Client Referees’ replies?

  • Q. Can you copy us in on emails sent to our Clients Referees?

  • Q. How many emails will our Client Referees receive?

  • Q. Can we include the same client for multiple practice areas?

  • Q. Will we know in advance when our Client Referees will be contacted?

  • Q. Must client referees have been involved in work listed in our Law Firm Submission?

  • Q. How senior should our Client Referees be?

  • Q. How many Client Referees should I submit?

  • Q. What do you ask Client Referees?

  • Q. Can someone who hasn’t been a client be a Client Referee?

  • Q. Who can be a referee?

  • Q. Why don’t you have the same deadlines as Chambers & Partners?

  • Q. Can we get an extension to the submission deadline?

  • Q. What is our submission deadline?