Blank Rome has once again been ranked in Chambers Global, an international guide to leading lawyers and law firms.

 

Chambers gave high marks to the Firm in Dispute Resolution: Hong Kong and Shipping, as well as ranking Ernest Chung, Andrew Hart and John Kimball.

 

Chambers & Partners, the UK-based publishers of Chambers Global, conducts research by speaking to a vast range of lawyers and clients. Greater weighting is given to the views of the latter, and any biased viewpoints tend to cancel each other out. All interviews are conducted purely for research purposes and are entirely confidential and un-attributed. The methodology has been approved by the British Market Research Bureau, which audits the research annually.  

 

In-depth interviews with clients and lawyers are done over the telephone, each one lasting about half an hour.  For the current Global directory, over 6,500 of these interviews were conducted covering 170 countries. They were carried out by a team of 30 full-time researchers over a period of 12 months. The qualities on which rankings are assessed include technical legal ability, professional conduct, client service, commercial awareness/astuteness, diligence, commitment, and other qualities most valued by the client.  Editorial comment is also derived from the research, with quotations used when they sum up the prevailing opinion of the market.