Chambers UK Guide

Chambers UK 2025 guide launch

Discover who has been ranked as the top legal talent in this year’s guide.

Chambers UK 2025 guide launch

Discover who has been ranked as the top legal talent in this year’s guide.

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Watch the 2024 guide launch webinar on-demand and discover key findings from this year's research into the UK legal market.

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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 Al

Steven 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 Steven

Maisie Watson

Research Manager: Asset Finance, Commodities, Construction, Energy & Natural Resources, Environment, Planning, Projects/Infrastructure, Real Estate, Real Estate Finance, Shipping

Contact Maisie

Louise 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 Louise

Francois 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 Francois

Tanya 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 Tanya

Lydia Burt

Principal Research Specialist: <br> 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

Contact Lydia

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.  