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About the Chambers UK Legal Guide 2025
Welcome to the Chambers UK Guide 2025. Search the legal market's best law firms and lawyers using the search functionality above.
Search for the top ranked lawyers and law firms in the UK and read analysis that you can trust. Our rankings are the most thoroughly researched and independent on the market. Each one is assessed by our dedicated team of experienced researchers using our unrivalled research methodology, which includes tens of thousands of one-to-one interviews every year.
If you are buying legal services in the UK and need reliable recommendations on the best law firms and solicitors, our rankings, editorial and analysis will provide you with the information you need to make the most well-informed decision when it matters.
Chambers UK 2026 Submissions
Submissions for the Chambers UK 2026 guide are open, you can view the full schedule here.
Keep up to date with all of your relevant submission deadlines throughout the year and get personalised submission reminders in your calendar here.
Chambers UK 2025 Guide Insights
The Chambers UK guide’s legal market coverage and analysis for 2025 covers 85 broad areas of UK law, such as tax, banking and finance, employment, personal injury and family/matrimonial. It is grouped by regions, such as South West, Midlands and London, so you can easily compare firms across a geographic area to find the best talent for your needs, wherever it exists.
We also cover specialist areas of law on a UK-wide basis, such as asset finance, energy, defamation, and product liability.
To learn about how we conduct our unrivalled research and how you can take part, please visit our methodology page.
Chambers UK 2025 Guide: Summary
Chambers UK 2025 is now available online, covering dozens of regions throughout England, as well as Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Channel Islands. London, being the UK’s largest legal market, has the most in-depth legal coverage and insights.
5,680
Ranked Departments – an increase of 231
13,518
Individual Rankings – an increase of 6.5%
1,211
Associates ranked – 32 added this year
806
Up-and-coming Individuals Ranked
370
Women added to the rankings
Chambers UK Guide 2025: Highlights
Chambers and Partners has been the leading source of independent legal market intelligence for over 30 years. The UK team alone has more than 70 experienced, dedicated researchers ranking the best law firms and solicitors. Chambers as a whole has around 200 dedicated researchers. This contributes to a wealth of local knowledge and market insight that you can trust to base your legal-buying decisions on.
New UK legal ranking tables for 2025
SME-focused Firms
This new table is specifically designed for firms whose primary focus is on representing SME clients. Most will provide corporate advice, however many of these firms can also help with property, commercial contracts, employment law and dispute resolution. A firm can only be included in this section if it has three or fewer department rankings throughout the rest of Chambers UK (with the exception of some consumer sections, such as Family or Personal Injury). Firms that cater predominantly to larger clients are not included here.
Dispute Resolution Specialist Firms
This new section exclusively recognises firms specialising in dispute resolution and covers the full range of disputes. This is including, but not limited to, commercial litigation, banking litigation, fraud and international arbitration. It seeks to highlight firms of varying sizes with broad-based yet specialised expertise in this field. The only firms that can be included in this table are those that focus on dispute resolution to the exclusion of other practice areas. Full service firms with comprehensive corporate departments, for example, cannot be included here.
Professional Negligence: Mainly Claimant in London
This new table highlights lawyers putting forward claims on behalf of individuals.
IT & Outsourcing: Disputes Specialists
This new table makes it easier for clients to quickly identify Chambers-ranked experts in litigation arising from contract disputes between vendors and purchasers of IT products.
Healthcare
Our healthcare coverage now includes separate tables for Private Sector and for Public and Third Sector.
Projects: Domestic
There is no longer a PPP/PFI table in the guide. This has been placed by Projects: Domestic, which focused on all kinds of projects work pertaining to the UK.
Projects: International
This new table mirrors the Domestic table, but focuses on work overseas.
Reconfigured UK legal ranking tables for 2025
Aviation
We have discontinued Aviation: Commercial, but continue to recognise firms with strength in aviation in four different tables: Regulatory, Dispute Resolution, Insurance and Claimant.
Energy & Natural Resources
Power, Renewables and Alternative Energy are now considered in a single table.
Family/Matrimonial outside of London
Our former city-specific tables have been consolidated into regional tables. For example, Manchester and Liverpool are now included in a single North West table.
Construction: Professional Negligence in London
This new table effectively replaces Professional Negligence: Construction and Technology.
Retail
Retail: Corporate and Competition has been discontinued, but the traditional Retail table remains.
Tax outside of London
The former regional tables (The South, North West etc) have been consolidated into a single table for The Regions, which encompasses all of the UK excluding London and Scotland, which have distinct tables.
The research for Chambers UK 2025 took place between January and July 2024.
Regions in the guide explained
Latest Legal News: Chambers UK
Changes to Projects, Energy and Planning & Environment in UK 2025
Read about the key changes to the Projects, Energy, Planning and Environment sections.
Changes to Projects in Chambers UK 2025
Discover the changes to the Projects coverage in the Chambers UK 2025 guide.
The State of UK Family Law in 2024
The Chambers UK team discusses the developments within family law discovered in the research into the Chamber UK 2025 guide.
Changes to submissions for Projects, Construction, Planning, Environment and Commodities
The Chambers UK team explains submission changes to the real assets research in the upcoming Chambers UK 2026 guide.
Changes to submissions for Inquests, Public Inquiries, Public Procurement and Employment
The Chambers UK team explains submission changes to the administrative, public law and employment research in the 2026 guide.
Changes to submissions for Family, Court of Protection, Travel, Healthcare and Crime
The Chambers UK team explains submission changes to consumer law & health research in the upcoming Chambers UK 2026 guide.
Changes to submissions for Media & Entertainment
The Chambers UK team explains submission changes to the media and entertainment research in the upcoming Chambers UK 2026 guide.
Change to Capital Markets, Financial Services, Pensions, Restructuring/Insolvency and Tax
Learn about the changes to submissions for Capital Markets, Financial Services, Pensions, Restructuring/Insolvency and Tax in the 2026 UK guide.
Meet the Chambers Legal Research Team
Al Marsh
UK Research Director: Commercial Contracts, Competition, Corporate/M&A, Franchising, Hotels & Leisure, Investment Funds, Private Equity, Retail, Sport
Contact AlSteven Preston
Head of UK Solicitors Research: Banking & Finance, Capital Markets, Consumer Finance, Employee Share Schemes & Incentives, Financial Services, Insurance, Offshore, Pensions, Pensions Litigation, Restructuring/Insolvency, Tax
Contact StevenMaisie Watson
Research Manager: Asset Finance, Commodities, Construction, Energy & Natural Resources, Environment, Planning, Projects/Infrastructure, Real Estate, Real Estate Finance, Shipping
Contact MaisieLouise Monty
Research Manager: Banking Litigation, Commercial and Corporate Litigation (London), Financial Crime, Fraud: Civil, Group Litigation, International Arbitration, Litigation (Regions), Mediators, POCA, Professional Discipline, Professional Negligence, Real Estate Litigation
Contact LouiseFrancois Gill
Principal Research Specialist: Aviation, Data Protection, Defamation/Reputation Management, Gaming & Licensing, Information Technology and Outsourcing, Intellectual Property, Life Sciences, Media & Entertainment, Telecommunications, Transport
Contact FrancoisTanya Shaar
Research Manager Administrative and Public Law, Charities, Civil Liberties and Human Rights, Education, Employment, Immigration, Local Government, Parliamentary & Public Affairs, Partnership, Police Law, Public International Law, Public Procurement
Contact TanyaLydia Burt
Principal Research Specialist:
Clinical Negligence, Court of Protection, Crime, Extradition, Family/Matrimonial including Children Law, Health & Safety, Healthcare, Mental Health, Personal Injury, Product Liability, Social Housing, Travel, SME-Focused firms
About our Legal Rankings
Rankings are assessed by our dedicated team of experienced analysts and are updated every year. Every quote you see in our editorial was obtained in the most recent research period.
Our unrivalled research process involves interviewing both lawyers and their clients to obtain a view of each submitting law firm and understanding the level of service and work offered.
To learn about how we conduct research into the guide, please visit our methodology page.
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