Both websites provide ranked lists of recommended law firms and lawyers, assessed for their legal expertise, using extensive independent editorial research. legal500.com is also able to offer law firm recommendations based on objectively measured Customer Satisfaction scores.
Some observers distinguish between the two services by saying that chambers.com reflects the perceptions of law firms and individual lawyers, whilst legal500.com focuses on the perceptions and real world experience of law firm clients (and in a 2023 survey of client referees, 90% of those who expressed a preference said they preferred to use legal500.com).
legal500.com reports approximately 50% more web traffic thanchambers.com (based on published figures in 2022/23).