Three ways for a firm to engage. Claiming a profile and submitting evidence are free and always will be. Advertising and subscriptions buy tools and reach, under the rules set out below; none of them buys a placement.
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 placement rule in force, the five planned signals and the exclusions that apply to every score. Advertising appears in neither, by construction.
Read the methodologyBar associations, in-house counsel bodies and arbitral institutions, by market · 86
Japan Federation of Bar Associations
Japan In-house Lawyers Association
All China Lawyers Association
Law Society of Hong KongHong Kong Corporate Counsel Association
Taiwan Bar AssociationLaw Society of SingaporeSingapore Corporate Counsel AssociationBar Council of IndiaIndian Corporate Counsel AssociationLaw Society of England and WalesBar Council of England and WalesAmerican Bar AssociationAssociation of Corporate Counsel
Canadian Bar AssociationCanadian Corporate Counsel Association
Law Council of Australia
BundesrechtsanwaltskammerBundesverband der UnternehmensjuristenBUJ
Conseil national des barreaux
Association Française des Juristes d'EntrepriseOrdem dos Advogados do BrasilOAB
Law Society of South Africa
Nigerian Bar Association
Istanbul Bar AssociationIsrael Bar Associationלשכת עורכי הדיןKorean Commercial Arbitration Board대한상사중재원Japan Commercial Arbitration Association日本商事仲裁協会
China International Economic and Trade Arbitration CommissionHong Kong International Arbitration Centre香港國際仲裁中心Singapore International Arbitration Centre
Asian International Arbitration CentreThai Arbitration Instituteสถาบันอนุญาโตตุลาการ
Vietnam International Arbitration Centre
Indonesian National Board of Arbitration
Philippine Dispute Resolution Center
Mumbai Centre for International Arbitration
Chinese Arbitration Association, TaipeiLondon Court of International Arbitration
ICC International Court of ArbitrationGerman Arbitration InstituteDeutsche Institution für Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit
Swiss Arbitration Centre
Netherlands Arbitration Institute
Milan Chamber of ArbitrationMadrid International Arbitration CenterCentro Internacional de Arbitraje de Madrid
Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of CommerceIstanbul Arbitration Centreİstanbul Tahkim Merkezi
Dubai International Arbitration Centre
Saudi Center for Commercial ArbitrationIsraeli Institute of Commercial Arbitrationהמוסד הישראלי לבוררות עסקיתLagos Court of Arbitration
Arbitration Foundation of Southern Africa
American Arbitration Association, ICDRADR Institute of CanadaInstitut d'arbitrage et de médiation du Canada
Centro de Arbitraje de MéxicoCAM-CCBCCentro de Arbitragem e Mediação da Câmara de Comércio Brasil-Canadá
Australian Centre for International Commercial ArbitrationInternational Centre for Settlement of Investment DisputesPermanent Court of ArbitrationCour permanente d'arbitrageIntegrated Bar of the PhilippinesMalaysian BarMajlis Peguam Malaysia
Lawyers Council of ThailandVietnam Bar FederationLiên đoàn Luật sư Việt Nam
Indonesian Advocates AssociationMacau Lawyers Association澳門律師公會Law Society of IrelandDlí-Chumann na hÉireannGerman Bar AssociationDeutscher Anwaltverein
Paris BarConsiglio Nazionale ForenseConsejo General de la Abogacía Española
Netherlands BarSwiss Bar AssociationSchweizerischer Anwaltsverband
Swedish Bar AssociationUnion of Turkish Bar AssociationsTürkiye Barolar Birliği
Federal Chamber of Lawyers of the Russian Federation
Dubai Legal Affairs DepartmentSaudi Bar Associationالهيئة السعودية للمحامينLegal Practice Council of South Africa
Barra Mexicana, Colegio de AbogadosColegio Público de la Abogacía de la Capital Federal
International Bar Association
LAWASIA
Union Internationale des Avocats
Inter-Pacific Bar Association