About Legal.Powerlist
Everything you need to know about what we do…
Legal.Powerlist is a leading legal directory ranking the best law professionals and distinctive law firms from around the world according to the practice area they operate. Our research team applies specific criteria that filter out the multitude of legal service providers. This way our users can safely rely on our directory when selecting their legal partners, knowing that they are the best for each specific job.
Staying ahead of the competition means being at the edge of developments. That’s why we provide insights and news on special legal developments and transactions. Our users benefit from having valuable information on the deals and the legal professionals who make it all happen, securing the relevant expertise on similar matters.
Our legal directory is closely related to the profiles of law professionals and law firms that we provide. All individual professionals and law firms get the chance to demonstrate their expertise, contact details and a series of other attributes in their dedicated profile. The top-notch design of the profiles delivered by our web development team is coupled with SEO campaigns that let the selected firms and professionals stay on top by maximizing their online presence and exposure to business opportunities.
The depth of knowledge, data and information accumulated by the selected firms and professionals of our directory is made available to the legal industry through our specialized reports and handbooks. We produce practice area guides, law firm analytics reports and benchmarks and other documentation that sheds light in the legal industry, according to the needs of our users, backed by the experience and knowledge of our law professionals who act as contributors.
Our Global Law Handbook is published annually and contains the total of law firms and law professionals that have been included in Legal.Powerlist over the previous year. Our users, spanning from General Counsels, Business Directors and Managers to Governmental Officials, Investors, Private Clients and High-Net Worth Individuals, as well as Law Firms and Lawyers, benefit from a consolidated presentation of the best legal professionals in the market, as acclaimed by our independent research and analysis.
Market Feedback
Our research team contacts business leaders and key market players in order to understand the perception of the market in each jurisdiction regarding a specific area of practice.
According to the feedback from the market, we spot those leading professionals and law firms who play a crucial role in the legal developments in each designated jurisdiction.
Out of the market feedback, we mostly value feedback from existing and previous clients that have a first-hand experience of dealing with specific lawyers and law firms. We crosscheck client feedback with transactional evidence to assure the accuracy of our findings.
We mainly focus on attributes including:
Transactional Evidence
After spotting a leading figure in a specific area of practice or when assessing a law firm put forward through our nomination process, we contact them asking for specific transactional evidence.
We only include the best professionals and law firms in our directory for each specific practice area. Therefore, our research team needs to make sure the actual experience and expertise of the legal service provider under review.
Publicly Available Information
Our proactive research team constantly monitors legal news and developments from leading international and local media to distinguish the professionals and law firms who shape the game in the legal sector.
The market feedback we receive as well as transactional evidence provided directly by legal service providers are crosschecked with publicly available information and media coverage of deals and transactions and vice versa.
Peer Feedback
Those who know the legal market better are the lawyers themselves. This is why our research process takes into account feedback from other lawyers active in practice areas and jurisdictions of interest. We filter out the competitive bias that may exist in such feedback and focus on revealing the real status of the market under review.
Market Feedback
Our research team contacts business leaders and key market players in order to understand the perception of the market in each jurisdiction regarding a specific area of practice.
According to the feedback from the market, we spot those leading professionals and law firms who play a crucial role in the legal developments in each designated jurisdiction.
Out of the market feedback, we mostly value feedback from existing and previous clients that have a first-hand experience of dealing with specific lawyers and law firms. We crosscheck client feedback with transactional evidence to assure the accuracy of our findings.
We mainly focus on attributes including:
Transactional Evidence
After spotting a leading figure in a specific area of practice or when assessing a law firm put forward through our nomination process, we contact them asking for specific transactional evidence.
We only include the best professionals and law firms in our directory for each specific practice area. Therefore, our research team needs to make sure the actual experience and expertise of the legal service provider under review.
Publicly Available Information
Our proactive research team constantly monitors legal news and developments from leading international and local media to distinguish the professionals and law firms who shape the game in the legal sector.
The market feedback we receive as well as transactional evidence provided directly by legal service providers are crosschecked with publicly available information and media coverage of deals and transactions and vice versa.
Peer Feedback
Those who know the legal market better are the lawyers themselves. This is why our research process takes into account feedback from other lawyers active in practice areas and jurisdictions of interest. We filter out the competitive bias that may exist in such feedback and focus on revealing the real status of the market under review.
We want to provide top-notch services.
We are passionate for what we do.
We take business very seriously.
We look beyond the status-quo.