Legal 500 US Elite
What is Legal 500 US Elite?
Legal 500 US Elite aims to highlight key lawyers operating at regional players across business centres in the United States.
Notably, US Elite seeks to recognize key US lawyers outside global firms, opting to focus on those at regional powerhouses that may not receive comparable recognition in other rankings. US Elite emphasizes lawyers who are handling work at the top of the legal market in their respective cities, states, or regions. The ranking is distinct from the main Legal 500 US guide, with lawyers ranked by tier as individuals rather than as teams.
How are lawyers selected for US Elite?
Our research includes interviews with top practitioners, peer feedback, and evidence of key matters worked on by the ranked attorneys during the past year. An initial shortlist of attorneys is produced by the research team using internal and external data sets, with submissions from firms also welcomed independently of the shortlist process.
All interested lawyers are invited to participate in an interview with our researchers, and also have the option of making a written submission. During the interview, we also solicit extensive peer feedback regarding other lawyers operating in their respective legal sectors.
Law firms are welcome to proactively submit attorneys for consideration.
The research schedule and guidelines for Legal 500 United States City Elite edition are now below.
Interview deadline: April 24th 2026
Submission deadline/research: May 8th 2026
Submissions should be concise and focus on what makes your practice stand out.
Submission template
NB: This template is in .docx format. Do not resave it in any other format as it may not be compatible with our system.
Practice areas included in the research scope
- Corporate and M&A
- Commercial disputes
- Energy litigation
- Energy: transactional
- Intellectual property
- White-collar crime
- Real estate
- Tax
- Corporate and M&A
- Product liability and mass torts
- Commercial disputes
- Energy litigation
- Energy: transactional
- Intellectual property
- Tax
- White-collar crime
- Construction
- Real Estate
- Finance and restructuring
- Corporate and M&A
- Commercial disputes
- Energy litigation
- Energy: transactional
- Finance and restructuring
- Intellectual property
- White-collar crime
- Tax
- Real Estate
- Corporate and M&A
- Commercial disputes
- Energy
- Real estate
- Corporate and M&A
- Commercial disputes
- Energy and natural resources
- Corporate and M&A
- Commercial disputes
- Energy
- Corporate and M&A
- Commercial disputes
- Insurance
- Corporate and M&A
- Commercial disputes
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.
If you do not have login details or have problems accessing submissions.legal500.com, please get in touch to request details via Submit a request – Legal 500, filing a request under the “Login details – portal” category.
Please ensure you send your submissions in by the deadline. The timetable for the research will be adhered to rigorously.