Corrections, Removals and Complaints

If you are listed in the directory and do not want to be, write to inquiry@legalinternationals.com with “Removal request” in the subject, your name as it appears on the site, your firm, and the link to the entry if you have it. You do not have to give a reason.

So that nobody can have someone else removed, we may ask you to confirm the request from your firm email address, or a colleague at the firm may write for you. Once confirmed, the person is taken out of the find-a-lawyer search, the firm’s page and the publishers’ rankings of individuals that we report, and is placed on a standing removal list that every rebuild of the directory applies, so the entry does not come back when the firm’s site is read again. We keep only the name, the firm and the date of the request, for as long as the removal must be enforced.

A removal from the directory does not remove news reporting about a person: a story about a lateral hire or a case is journalism and is handled as a correction or complaint below.

If something on the site is wrong (a name, a title, a practice area, an office, a figure, a fact in a story), write to inquiry@legalinternationals.com with the page, what is wrong and, if you can, the source that shows the right version. Every entry carries the source it was read from, and we answer from it. A correction to a story is made in the story and noted there; a correction to the directory is made at the next rebuild.

A firm that disputes a placement or how it is described may write to us. We answer from the evidence trail, and where the firm is right we change the record; where we disagree we say why and, on request, publish the firm’s reply with the same prominence as the point it answers. Subscribing or advertising makes no difference to how a reply is handled. See For law firms and the Methodology.

If you think a story is inaccurate, unfair, intrudes on privacy or infringes your rights, write to inquiry@legalinternationals.com with “Complaint” in the subject and the link to the page. An editor reviews every complaint, and we tell you what we decided and why. Where the complaint concerns personal data, you may also go to a data protection authority, as set out in the Privacy notice.

A firm that prefers its logo, or the picture of its homepage, not to appear on its entry may ask us to remove it, and we will.