We are very pleased to announce India’s first directory of law firms, which will describe and rank them by several completely transparent metrics.
The InLegal 50 will be an authoritative database of Indian law firms, with free participation and access for all.
Please watch the short video above that explains some of the thinking behind it.
We recognise that it is very difficult (some would argue impossible) to have a ranking that is completely objective. However, we trust that the data we are collecting and providing will help consumers of legal services to make better and more informed buying decisions, as well as increasing the overall transparency in the legal market.
The directory will include transparent league table data on corporate, private equity and venture capital activity, as well as preliminary data collection in the disputes space, of which we will reveal more shortly.
We also hope to keep adding more practice areas and metrics in future, and will keep you posted on that.
The first edition will launch in October 2018, in our next issue of Legally India in print, which is produced in collaboration with Global Legal Media in London.
Around 34 law firms have already filled in forms providing headcounts and other data. If you have not yet and to confirm your interest in participating, please click here and we will keep you posted about the process going forward.
If you have any questions or feedback, please feel free to leave a comment below, or to email
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1. Because the Indian legal industry has a deep-seated and long-standing distrust of any rankings, is why we intend for this to be completely transparent. I.e., we hope that anyone should be able to reconstruct how a ranking in a specific area was arrived at, and slice and dice it whichever way they want, by ignoring certain parameters or prioritising others.
We are not looking to establish that firm X or firm Y is The Best, because that's generally nonsense. But we want to provide an evolving framework that will help people evaluate different strengths of firms.
2. Contrary to niche (or popular?) opinion, we don't have favourites at LI. And while nearly every firm I can remember has been upset with LI at some point or another in previous years over some coverage or other, we don't hold it against them.
3. All law firms can participate in the rankings for free. That said, if a firm chooses to boycott the rankings or not to participate by supplying no information at all, then yes, it will be more difficult to give an accurate picture of that firm. It is also in our interest for the rankings to include large firms, and I think we will mention if a firm has not participated, so that the data about that firm can be read with the appropriate proviso.
Further, just to rephrase, a large firm will be ranked (most likely higher) than a small/mid-sized firm that merely filled in the form.
We want to start it out slowly, to allow the methodology to improve and incorporate feedback from readers and the market.
Also this directory will be fatter than your top 50 thing. And anyways no one will believe the top 50 like the commentor in comment no1.
I agree that the tone of the comments section can be improved, but mostly people criticise firms, and not individuals, and such debate can be helpful and in many cases does result in interesting insight about a relatively opaque sectors of the market, such as law firms or legal education, and also lets people post negative or critical feedback about LI openly, which is useful to us.
Facebook comments I personally object to on basic privacy grounds. Gmail comments are marginally better from that perspective, but at the end of the day, any troll determined enough can create a fake or alias Gmail account, other than the fact that not 100% of people have Gmail accounts.
At the end of the day, maintaining decorum in any comments section comes down to better moderation rather than any instant technology fix, and we will continue to try doing a better job on that front.
1. CAM
2. AZB
3. SAM
4. Khaitan
5. JSA
6. Luthra
7. S&R
8. Some suspicious wild card firm which doesn't deserve to be here
9. Platinum
10. Nishith Desai
I think this ranking is pointless. Most of these are baniya firms doing well only because they block liberalisation. The "Campa Colas" of the legal world.
Need these parameters to decide who are the top 50 and not how much cash they make:
1. Nepotism
2. Bullying
3. Sexual Harassment
4. Mental Torture
5. Transperent promotions
6. Discrimination on caste, creed, religion, sex, poor, rich, family background.
7. Pscyhopaths
8. Sharks
9. Groupism
10. Body shaming
11. Contribution to society
If you dont consider these parameters to do your top 50 law firms then you are not doing anything new.
Hope you do something refreshing and valuable.
Cheers
LI Reader
And the law school ranking: NLSIU>NALSAR>NUJS>NLUD>NLUJ
So both these rankings will just be a publicity stunt by LI.
Rank 1 = Platinum = 5 Lacs
Rank 2 = Gold = 2 Lacs
Rank 3 = Silver = 1 Lac
-law college professors
-lawyers
I am sure you are aware of many sexual harassment men and what they have done, why not consolidate all incidents and make a huge publication instead of who is top law firm. There are too many publishers already making directories of law firms.
If you do, I am sure a few firms won't make it to top three.
But I think the best defence against allegations or suspicions of bias will lie in a completely transparent methodology and data collection and publishing process, as well as sharing this with readers and opening it up to feedback.
And at the end of the day, it is in our and the ranking's ultimate interest for our methodology to not even have room for "arm-twisting".
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