United Kingdom (The Bar) Submissions
Each ranking edition page serves as a dedicated gateway for firms preparing submissions for the upcoming guide research. Firms can explore the practice areas under review, understand the scope of research for that market, and access the templates and guidelines required for participation. Key deadlines for editorial submissions and client referees are clearly outlined, alongside links to the submissions portal and supporting materials.
Whether your firm operates in a single jurisdiction or across multiple markets, these pages set out the practice areas included in the research scope for the markets covered.
The launch date and guidelines for Legal 500 United Kingdom (Bar) edition are now below.
London Bar deadline: Submissions and referees: 17 April 2026
Regional Bar deadline: Submissions and referees: 18 February 2026
Scottish Bar deadline: Submissions and referees: 18 February 2026
Launch date: Thursday 1st October 2026
Details of researchers for the London Bar are now available.
We will soon be starting research for the 2027 edition of
Legal 500 UK, and invite you to provide us with editorial
submissions according to the attached guidelines.
Referees and editorial submissions for the Regional Bar and
Scottish Bar must reach us no later than Thursday 12 February
2026. No referee will be accepted after this date.
Referees and editorial submissions for the London Bar should
reach us no later than Friday 17 April 2026.
The following guidelines will help you to prepare a submission.
Chambers appear in the editorial sections of Legal 500 free
of charge. Any queries regarding directory listings (ie paid-for
advertising entries) should be addressed to Alexander Owen (email
[email protected]).
If you have any queries, please contact us via legal500.com/faqs, although you may first wish to check the Frequently Asked Questions PDF
Submissions should be concise and focus on what makes your practice stand out.
Providing referees isn’t required, but client and peer feedback is important to our research because it offers independent, third-party validation of your work.
Submissions template
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Referee spreadsheet
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Arbitrators template
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FAQs and supporting info
Practice areas included in the research scope:
Practice areas and definitions
- Administrative law and human rights
- Agriculture
- Art and cultural property
- Aviation and travel
- Banking and finance (including consumer credit)
- Business crime
- Charities
- Clinical negligence
- Commercial litigation (scope changed to include civil fraud)
- Commodities
- Company
- Competition
- Construction
- Costs and litigation funding
- Court of Protection: health and welfare
- Crime
- Crypto and blockchain assets
- Data protection
- Defamation and privacy
- Education
- Elections
- Employment
- Energy
- European Union relations
- Extradition
- Family: children and domestic abuse
- Family: divorce and financial remedy
- Family: private FDR judges and arbitrators
- Financial services and fintech regulation
- Fraud and white-collar crime (renamed and scope amended):
- Group litigation
- Health and safety
- Immigration (scope clarified regarding interaction with
administrative law and human rights) - Inquests and inquiries
- Insolvency
- Insurance and reinsurance
- Intellectual property
- International arbitration: arbitrators
- International arbitration: counsel
- International human rights and criminal law
- IT and telecoms: projects and services
- Licensing
- Media and entertainment (excluding defamation)
- Partnership
- Pensions
- Personal injury (scope now includes credit hire)
- Planning
- Police law: claimant
- Police law: forces and constables
- Private wealth and probate
- Proceeds of crime (POCA) and asset forfeiture
- Product liability
- Professional disciplinary and regulatory law
- Professional negligence
- Property litigation
- Public international law
- Public procurement
- Rating and valuation
- Sanctions
- Shipping
- Social housing
- Sport
- Tax: corporate
- Tax: personal
- Tax: VAT and excise
- Telecoms regulation
- Administrative law and human rights
- Agriculture
- Business and regulatory crime (including health and safety)
- Clinical negligence
- Commercial litigation
- Company and insolvency
- Costs and litigation funding
- Court of Protection: health and welfare
- Crime (general and fraud)
- Employment
- Family: children and domestic abuse
- Family: divorce and financial remedy
- Immigration
- Inquests and inquiries
- Intellectual property
- IT, telecoms and data protection
- Licensing
- Media, entertainment and defamation
- Personal injury
- Planning
- Private wealth, probate and tax
- Professional disciplinary law
- Professional negligence
- Property and construction
- Social housing
- Sport
- Commercial disputes
- Crime, regulatory and inquiries
- Employment
- Family and private client
- Medical negligence and personal injury
- Property, construction and planning
- Public law
We’re excited to launch our new, streamlined Legal 500 submission portal, designed to make the entire process clearer, faster and easier to navigate.
To send your submissions to us, please visit submissions.legal500.com and follow the onscreen prompts to send us new documents.
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