Legal Benchmarking Group
provides law firms with market-leading benchmarking and business intelligence solutions, enabling them to amplify their success and win new business.
We are the leading practice-area research and rankings, insights, and awards provider for global law firms. Our focus on Financial & Corporate, Litigation, Intellectual Property, and Tax, provides differentiation and intelligence for practitioners who depend on highly specialised, cross-border, collaboration between law firms and corporate counsel.
Our research
Our products, and the rigourous research processes that produce them, are deeply embedded within our customers' business development workflows. Legal Benchmarking Group’s global team of researchers assess law firm capabilities using firm submissions, partner interviews, client feedback, and by tracking key talent moves. We focus on firms’ practice area specialism, with an emphasis on novel and innovative approaches to deals and cases that achieve positive outcomes for clients.
Our Practice Area Brands
We serve customers across four key brands, representing our commitment to practice-area specialisation in markets where securing external and co-counsel requires highly credentialled firms with deep expertise in complex legal matters.
News
The most recent Legal Benchmarking Group announcements, launches and events
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IFLR+ Talent Tracker Annual Review: US law firms dominated UK lateral hires in 2024
Paul Hastings, Holland & Knight and Kirkland & Ellis topped the finance and M&A recruitment drive in the US while Simmons & Simmons, Sidley Austin and Paul Weiss dominated in the UK -
How law firms maximise value from referrals
Six partners at law and tax firms explain how they keep tabs on referrals and why reciprocity is important to generating new business -
Talent Tracker reveals busy year for lateral moves
Data uncovers partner hiring trends and the factors causing financial, tax and IP partners to jump ship in the US and beyond
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Benchmark Litigation
Litigation Rankings
Benchmark Litigation is the definitive guide to the leading litigation firms and lawyers across North America and the Asia Pacific region.
We provide law firm and lawyer rankings based on extensive interviews with litigators, dispute resolution specialists and their clients as well as analysis of the market’s most important cases and firm developments.
IFLR
Financial & Corporate Rankings and Insights
First published in 1982, IFLR is the industry’s source on corporate finance trends and strategies, as well as regulatory developments, with informed viewpoints from our network of global editors, journalists and contributors from leading law firms and corporate counsel, focused on the business of law.
Launched in 1990, IFLR1000 provides customers with firm and lawyer benchmarking across 75 practice areas within the Financial & Corporate legal market. Annually it ranks more 5000 law firms and over 23,000 lawyers across 250 jurisdictions.
ITR
Tax Rankings and Insights
ITR is a global news and analysis service that provides leading business intelligence on all things corporate tax. Our market intelligence, exclusive client insight reports, marketing resources and intuitive tools, are all designed to help promote your firm and drive business growth.
ITR World Tax stands as the most comprehensive guide to the world's leading tax firms and ranks over 2,000 firms and nearly 6,000 practitioners in more than 140 jurisdictions.
Managing IP
Intellectual Property Rankings and Insights
Managing IP is the premier business of law news and analysis service catering to intellectual property professionals worldwide. Our market intelligence, exclusive client insight reports, marketing resources and intuitive tools, are all designed to help promote your firm and drive business growth.
Managing IP's sister brand, IP Stars was established in 1994 and ranks approximately 2,000 law firms and more than 10,000 lawyers in more than 80 jurisdictions every year.