Legal networks in 2025
Chambers and Partners’ 2025 research highlights the world’s leading legal networks - membership-based organisations connecting top independent law firms across jurisdictions. Based on extensive interviews with networks, member firms and clients, our rankings recognise those delivering trusted cross-border expertise, strategic coordination and seamless international service.
The Chambers and Partners’ research and rankings shine a spotlight on the world’s leading legal networks – formal, membership-based organisations that connect independent law firms.
Over the last 12 months, we’ve conducted hundreds of interviews with legal networks, their members and the clients utilising the legal networks. Our conversations have found that legal networks continue to play a consequential role in the legal ecosystem. The global platform they provide their members to exchange knowledge, open doors to local expertise and facilitate client referrals remains a significant one, and one that clients continue to benefit from.
"Legal Networks are especially important in today’s world, given fast-moving environments.”
Chambers & Partners interviewee
Our legal network rankings highlight the world’s foremost legal networks. These leading networks offer clients robust and full-service capabilities across multiple jurisdictions, providing them with a seamless international experience.
Leading law firm networks: Elite
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2025 saw much geopolitical and economic uncertainty. Through this uncertain time, users of legal services were keen to point to their legal networks and member firms as trusted advisors they could rely on.
The responsiveness and commercial awareness that legal networks facilitated were highlighted in several interviews; commentators were keen to praise their abilities in providing “fast responses to requests” and a “strong business understanding and commercial awareness”. According to one interviewee: “responsiveness is a key component of client trust” and the sentiment that legal networks provided a platform offering fast, effective and strategic advice was echoed by many.
Multi-jurisdictional capability was another key theme from our conversations. Networks and their member firms were at the forefront of “driving cross-border opportunities” and legal networks’ capabilities in offering “in-depth local knowledge with coordinated international execution” were key areas highlighted by the users of legal networks. This capacity to blend local knowledge with an international vision and stage was considered a key USP by many clients and one that contributed to legal networks and their member firms being “business enablers”.
The strategies implemented by legal networks were a hot topic in our conversations and one that showcased how legal networks continue to distinguish themselves in an ever-expanding and competitive legal field. Commentators pointed to Lex Mundi as having “a good, client-focused strategy” that has helped them to become “a phenomenal” network, whilst Interlaw was praised for its “global reach and one vision”. World Law Group gained plaudits for “working to strengthen the relationships and bonds among many lawyers in each of its member firms” whilst TAGLaw was praised for “doing an excellent job in bringing their members together”. Our conversations showed a clear consensus; networks that were proactive, innovative and forward-looking were seen as the ones setting the pace for the rest of the market.
2025 brought challenges and opportunities to law firms and clients alike. Legal networks played a critical role in helping clients navigate this turbulent time and remain well-placed to do so going into 2026.