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Deadlines

For all information regarding the timetables of our Legal 500 editions, please visit our Submission information page. Here you will find guidelines, deadlines and research guides for each edition.

Upcoming submissions deadlines:

  • 10 August 2020 (EMEA)

Can I have an extension?

Our deadlines are fixed in order to allow our research team to devote as much time as possible to analysing your submissions and obtaining as much feedback as possible from supplied referees.

While we will do what we can to examine all material sent to us, late submissions may not be reviewed in detail by our research team, and some or all referees supplied after our deadlines may not be contacted for feedback.

Firms are strongly encouraged to stick to the deadlines provided via the submissions site.

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Questions relating to barristers' chambers profiles and microsites

This section is for any submission-related issues you may be having

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To find all timetables for The Legal 500 publications, please visit our Get involved page.

Our deadlines are fixed in order to allow our research team to devote as much time as possible to analysing your submissions and obtaining as much feedback as possible from supplied referees.

While we will do what we can to examine all material sent to us, late submissions may not be reviewed in detail by our research team, and some or all referees supplied after our deadlines may not be contacted for feedback.

Firms are strongly encouraged to stick to the deadlines provided.

The submissions template can be found on the homepage of submissions.legal500.com or you can find it on our Get involved page. You can also find the them on the homepage of our submissions homepage.

Yes, we require you to use the Legal 500 template.

When you submit via the submissions portal and upload your submission, it will only recognise the format of the Legal 500 document. If you do not use our template, we reserve the right to not review your submission(s).

Please go to our Get involved page to find our ‘submissions template breakdown’ document.

Please contact the researchers directly to arrange a partner interview. The researchers will be announced at the start of the research period. You will be able to find all this information at our Get involved page.

Once here, select your edition. From here you will find a downloadable pdf file which will contain a list of all researchers and their practice areas for that edition.

On our submission form we offer 10 publishable and 10 confidential matters. We would always encourage firms to add more as the more information you provide, the more our research team have to work with. Instructions for how to add an additional matter box can be found on the submission form.

Yes, this is acceptable.

Yes, there will always be instances where a matter straddles two (sometimes three) practice areas.

If there are new/updated practice areas for your chosen edition, these will be highlighted when the guidelines are released. To find more information regarding the submission process, visit Get involved page and click on your chosen edition.

Panel appointments are a group of law firms chosen for regular instructions by a business or organisation after a pitch/beauty parade for specific practice areas, generally to the exclusion of any other law firms. If your jurisdiction doesn’t have panel appointments, leave the entire section blank.

In the event you need to make any updates to your referees, we ask you to download the referee form link to send directly to your client.

How does it work?

Step 1 – Log in to the Submissions Site

Step 2 – Locate the receipt for the practice area you wish to update referees for and select details

Step 3 – Download the Referee Survey Links spreadsheet

Firms are encouraged to provide as many referees as possible per team, per practice area, as this widens the net and increases the amount of positive feedback we are likely to receive. A good minimum guideline is 20 per practice area.

Please note that all referees must give their consent.

No, as long as the individual has worked with the firm in the past 18 months and can comment on your firm’s strengths and qualities.

In-house counsel, Direct access clients, Corporate clients, Barristers (leaders, juniors, opposition), Other/referring law firms and judges.

Yes, we will contact firms to let them know when we intend to contact referees.

Yes, this is acceptable.

Only one, but if they have been put forward by multiple firms and/or for multiple practice areas, the email will include multiple links.

No we cannot. The referee process is confidential.

Because there is no limit to the number of referees you can provide, we would encourage you to provide both/all potentially useful contacts.

We are very excited to announce a new edition to our Submissions Site. This brand new platform allows you to generate survey links and contact referees directly.

How does it work?

Step 1 – Log in to the Submissions Site
Step 2 – Select Add new.
Step 3 – Complete steps 1 and 2 and add your spreadsheet for step 3 as usual. If you are sending referees without a submission, select the skip submission upload option for step 2..
Step 4 – Tick the box for the option I would like to download the survey URLs and contact my referees directly.
Step 5 – Once you are happy with everything, click complete submission. One your confirmation page, you will find the option to download your referee URL links.

Please note, if you have altered the referee template in any way, it may affect your survey links being created.

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If your query relates to any of the above, please email us at content@legal500.com.

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Lawyer biographies are made in their own separate portal here: http://www.legal500.com/client. If you don’t know your lawyer logins please request them in the form below.

Changes to Lawyer profiles can take up to 3 working days to appear on the website. If you changes have not appeared within this time frame, please fill in the form below.

Please fill in the form below, informing us of the nature of your problem with your Firm profile page.

This most likely means two of your profiles have the same office ticked and it is showing the information for both. One of these profiles will need to be un-ticked to solve this issue. Sometimes this is accurate if you have booked the same office for both regional and international profiles. Please fill in the form below if this does not rectify the issue within 72 hours.

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Any updates to your lawyer/partner profiles will take 72 hours to appear on the website. If it has been longer than this, please fill in the form below.

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If you are waiting for your articles to appear online, please note it can take up to 72 hours for them to be published on our website. If they are still not appearing online, please fill in the form below, informing us of the PR/Legal articles that are not appearing.

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Changes to Barrister profiles can take up to 3 working days to appear on the website. If you changes have not appeared within this time frame, please fill in the form below.

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Please make sure there are no spaces at the beginning/end of your username/password when entering them.

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Any updates to your Barrister profiles will take 72 hours to appear on the website. If it has been longer than this, please fill in the form below.

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Have you checked that the spelling of the name of your Barrister(s) in the Contacts tab are consistent with the lawyer profile? If the spelling is consistent, please fill in the form below letting us know which lawyers are not linking correctly.

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If you are waiting for your articles to appear online, please note it can take up to 72 hours for them to be published on our website. If they are still not appearing online, please fill in the form below, informing us of the PR/Legal articles that are not appearing.

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Yes you can. Please visit our Historical data website for more information.

The ConvertNow tool is optional. It has been designed to assist you with your submissions process, but you are not obligated to use it.

The ConvertNow tool is located within the submissions portal, located at submissions.legal500.com. Once you have logged in, You will see and option for ConvertNow in the left toolbar.

The licence of ConvertNow is restricted to firms that place a commercial profile in the country that the submission is produced for. If you do not have a profile for the country you are looking to use the tool for, please contact your account manager to unlock access.

The Chambers template and The Legal 500 template are similar, but not exactly the same. There are some differences between the Chambers form and ours – we don’t need some of the information Chambers ask for, and vice versa.

One of the reasons that a document doesn’t convert correctly is dependent on the Chambers document being in the correct format. If you have altered the structure of the Chambers form when completing the submission, this can impact the effectiveness of the data transfer or it may break it all together.

If you would like further assistance, please fill in the form below and upload your Chambers document. A member of our team will take a look at the document and respond to your query.

If you have a query that does not match the criteria above, please fill in the form below.

Please note: If you’re query does relate to any of the above fields and you send your query via the miscellaneous option, it will take longer for our team to process your query.

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