What is Legal 500 City Leaders?
Legal 500 US City Leaders aims to highlight key lawyers operating at regional players across business centres in the United States. Notably, US City Leaders seeks to recognize key US lawyers outside global elite firms, opting to focus on those at regional powerhouses that may be neglected by other rankings.
City Leaders emphasizes lawyers who are handling work at the top of the legal market in their respective cities. Our research team has identified lawyers carrying out high-quality, market-leading work and has produced rankings that allow clients to discover the best of the best at a regional level.
How are lawyers selected for City Leaders?
Our research includes interviews with top practitioners, referee and peer feedback, and evidence of key matters worked on by the ranked attorneys during the past year. Our selection process begins with researchers creating a list of prospective candidates, which is extensively reviewed by our editors.
All shortlisted lawyers are invited to make a submission and participate in a brief 30-minute interview with our researchers. During the interview, we also solicit extensive peer feedback regarding other lawyers operating in their respective legal sectors. Lawyers are also invited to supply client references to support their inclusion.
Dates
PUBLISHING SOON
Chicago Leaders – Commercial disputes
Chicago Leaders – Corporate & M&A
New York Leaders – Commercial disputes
New York Leaders – Corporate & M&A
Washington DC Leaders – international litigation
CURRENTLY RESEARCHING:
Boston Leaders – Corporate & M&A
Boston Leaders – commercial disputes
Charlotte Leaders – Intellectual property (transactional and litigation)
Charlotte Leaders – commercial disputes
Miami Leaders – international disputes
Miami Leaders – international transactions
Research period: October 14-November 29 2024
Deadline for submissions and referee spreadsheets: November 15 2024
Interview deadline: November 29 2024
Submission
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 via our FAQ page using the ‘Submissions Log In’ tab.
Please ensure you send your submissions in by the deadline. The timetable for the research will be adhered to rigorously.
Contact
Editorial
Deputy Editor – US City Leaders Nathan Oseroff-Spicer ([email protected])
Editor – United States Barnaby Merrill ([email protected])
Business Development/Commercial: Simon Wilton ([email protected])
To learn more about the team behind our research, please visit Meet The Team.