Question 1

Online Submissions: Do I have to use Online Submissions to submit?

Accepted Answer

No, the new platform is completely optional. We believe those participating in the Chambers research process will love using our new online submissions hub and enjoy the enhanced convenience and clarity in their experience. However, if you don’t feel ready to make a change, you can continue to submit using the traditional Chambers word and excel templates.

Question 2

Online Submissions: Will choosing One Submission method over another have any impact on the rankings?

Accepted Answer

No, your submissions and referees will be processed and used by Chambers in exactly the same way and your choice of submission route won’t impact our research process or our ranking decisions in any way. Any confidential information will also continue to be protected and separated from publishable information in accordance with our existing policies.

Question 3

Online Submissions: Will choosing One Submission method over another have any impact on the rankings?

Accepted Answer

No, your submissions and referees will be processed and used by Chambers in exactly the same way and your choice of submission route won’t impact our research process or our ranking decisions in any way. Any confidential information will also continue to be protected and separated from publishable information in accordance with our existing policies.

Question 4

Online Submissions: How can I access the new Online Submissions platform?

Accepted Answer

We are currently making our new Online Submissions experience available to limited numbers of law firms and barrister sets as part of a Beta program. This to make sure that all users who are interested in submitting in this new way are given the level of support they require to complete their Online Submission securely and confidently,

From 22 May 2023 anyone that wishes to request access to the Beta version of the new Online Submissions hub will be able to do so by signing up via the submissions information page on our website: https://chambers.com/info/submissions

After signing up, you will receive an email from Chambers confirming if you have been admitted onto the Beta scheme, along with access to the new platform and the dedicated help centre. 

If we cannot give you access to Online Submissions at this time, we encourage you to continue to submit using the traditional Chambers word and excel templates.

Question 5

Online Submissions: Will a submission created using the online submissions platform look different to the research team when compared to an old submission template document?

Accepted Answer

Any submission created and submitted through the online submissions hub will be accessible to the research team as a protected PDF document, which is very similar to the existing templates. Confidential and publishable matters continue to be clearly marked and separated, with confidential work highlights colour-coded in red. You can also download your submission into Word format and this document will be exactly the same as the one our research team sees for any submissions created using the online submissions hub.

Question 6

Online Submissions: I already started my submission, should I switch to the new online submissions platform?

Accepted Answer

If you are already part-way through preparing your submissions for an upcoming deadline with Chambers, we recommend that you continue to use the traditional Chambers templates to avoid having to manage two systems at once.

Question 7

Online Submissions: How do users find the new online submissions platform?

Accepted Answer

To access online submissions, you will first need to be granted access to the platform on Chambers MyAccount. To request access, please sign up via our onboarding page:

https://chambers.com/info/onboard-with-chambers

Once enabled, you will be able to access the online submissions hub via your Chambers MyAccount by logging in and clicking on the Submissions Hub link.

Question 8

Online Submissions: How do I create a submission in the online submissions platform?

Accepted Answer

Sign in to your Chambers account
Select Upload and Manage Submission from MyAccount features.
Select either Submissions Upload or Online Submissions
Follow the steps to enter all of your information, using the suggested guidance along the way
Click SUBMIT

Question 9

Online Submissions: What if the department I am submitting for is spread across multiple offices? Which one should I select?

Accepted Answer

If your team is spread across multiple offices (for example, if you are submitting for one of our Nationwide or Global Multi-jurisdictional tables), we recommend selecting the one office which could be regarded as the ‘Head Office’ for the department. You can also tell us about other key office locations for the department in the practice area summary section to give our research team an overview of the other key office locations relevant to your submission.

Question 10

Online Submissions: Do I need to select both a jurisdiction and a region?

Accepted Answer

You will always need to select a jurisdiction for your online submission first. The jurisdiction will normally be the country in which your office is based. For example if you are creating a submission for an office in New York, the jurisdiction will be ‘USA’.

Region is only required for specific tables that relate to a segment of the market within the jurisdiction you have chosen, such as rankings by state, region or city in our USA and UK Guides. For example if you were submitting for our New York State rankings, the jurisdiction would be ‘USA’ and the region would be ‘New York’.

Please note, only jurisdictions and regions for which research is open and we are accepting new submissions will be available for selection. For a full list of guides, jurisdictions, regions and practice areas and when submissions will be open, you can visit our full Research Schedule for more information.

Question 11

Online Submissions: Who should be the contact for arranging interviews on my submission?

Accepted Answer

We recommend providing a contact for arranging interviews. This person should be someone our research team can get in contact with if they would like to speak to some lawyers from the team to gather more information about your department and your team’s feedback on our rankings. You can add this contact person to your submission by entering their name, email and telephone number and then clicking the ‘+’ button.

Question 12

Online Submissions: How do I see the submission deadlines in the online submissions platform?

Accepted Answer

Once you have created a submission for a certain practice area, the submission deadline for each area you have created a submission for is displayed in a column on the right of your screen in the Current Submissions area of the submissions hub.

Question 13

Online Submissions: What is a nominee?

Accepted Answer

A nominee is any person within your organization you would like to reference in your submission or that you would like Chambers to consider for a ranking.

Question 14

Online Submissions: What is a work highlight and why should I provide them?

Accepted Answer

Work highlights allow you to add information about legal matters this department, firm or set has advised on over the review period. Work highlights include a description of the nature of the legal work, the team members from the relevant department(s) involved, and other organisations advising on the matter. The idea of work highlights is to communicate to Chambers what the relevant team did and why it was significant. Work highlights can be submitted as publishable or confidential, and can be a mix of both up to 20 in total.

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