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Three ways for a firm to engage. Two are free and always will be. The third is advertising, and the rules below set out exactly what it can and cannot reach — because a directory that sells to the firms it ranks has one asset, and that asset is the belief that the two are separate.
Legal directories still run on a rhythm set decades ago: a submission window, a fee, a researcher interview, a tier, an awards dinner, a printed volume, and reprints sold back to the firm that was ranked. Firms take part because not taking part is conspicuous — the cost of absence, not the value of presence, is what is being sold.
The reader that model was designed for was a general counsel with a directory on the shelf. That reader now asks an AI assistant which firms handle cross-border disputes in Seoul, and takes the answer that comes back with sources attached.
An answer engine cannot cite a tier it cannot read. It cannot weigh a band whose calculation was never published. It cannot attribute a result locked in a members-only PDF. Everything on this site is published the other way round: every listing carries the source it came from, every ranking carries the arithmetic behind it, and the whole directory is emitted as structured data any model can read and quote.
That is the entire pitch to a firm. Not a tier to buy, not a table to appear in, not a dinner. A profile that is accurate, sourced, and legible to the systems your clients now ask first.
Free, always
Verify that you control the firm and take editorial ownership of the entity record: correct the founding year, add offices, practice areas, and the partners who lead them.
Free, always
Send matters, deals and referees for the research cycle. Submissions are counted only where an independent trace exists — a filing, a registry entry, or a referee who responds.
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Reach in-house counsel and the legal press across the news feed and jurisdiction pages. Every placement is labelled, and none of it touches the ranking.
Verification and submissions carry no charge at any volume. A firm that pays nothing can reach the top of a table; a firm that pays cannot buy its way up one.
These rules bind us. They are published here so that an advertiser knows what they are not buying, and a reader knows what a placement cannot mean.
Commercial spend is not an input to any signal, and the scorer has no access to advertiser records. This is enforceable, not aspirational: the ranking is computed from the evidence tables alone and the calculation is published.
No pre-publication access, no embargoed preview, no opportunity to respond before a run goes live. A firm that buys advertising learns its placement from the website.
Sponsored placements carry a visible label, are excluded from editorial feeds, and are never styled to resemble a ranking, an award, or a news item.
A firm's own ranking table and profile carry no commercial placements, from that firm or its competitors. The appearance of influence is as damaging as influence.
Verification and submissions are free and always will be. A firm that pays nothing can reach the top of a table; a firm that pays cannot buy its way up one.
Each edition states what share of revenue came from firms that appear in that edition's rankings. Readers can judge the exposure for themselves.
The methodology sets out the four weighted signals and the exclusions that apply to every score. Advertising appears in neither, by construction.
Read the methodology