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Coram Chambers is a notable directories success story. In 2016 the set had nine barrister rankings and one set ranking across the Chambers & Partners and Legal 500 UK Bar guides. It now has 69 barrister rankings, two set rankings in Children, and a new set ranking in Divorce & Financial Remedy in The Legal 500 2025.
By Daniel Edelman
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In 2016 Coram had nine barrister rankings and one set ranking across both UK Bar guides. For The Legal 500 2025 the count is 69 barrister rankings, two set rankings in Children, and a new set ranking in Divorce & Financial Remedy. Throughout, the set has used handyside.legal to collect and collate its data.
Read the post →Twenty Essex has just finished all their submissions for the 2025/6 campaign: 49 submissions across six guides. They use handyside.legal to collect and collate the data, creating submissions and referee spreadsheets at the click of a button; the marketing team then does the copywriting. A pleasure to work with Mark Ballinger to keep the system running smoothly for everyone's benefit.
Read the post →Ontario has brought in the Simpler, Faster, Better Services Act, designed to put people at the centre of everything digital. We had never heard of it when we first came up with a better way to do legal directories; we were years ahead of the Province on this one. Silks have told us they saved a whole day using the portal, and the system has saved millions of billable and staff hours over the years it has been in use.
Read the post →Swans are natural marketers: calm and collected on the surface while working frantically out of sight. We love summer, but we are busy preparing for the onset of autumn and the new directories campaigns. We have designed a system to make filing submissions to the legal directories a glide on the lake. Contact us to join the swans.
Read the post →Congratulations to our clients Brick Court Chambers and 39 Essex Chambers: Chambers of the Year and Highly Commended respectively at The Lawyer Awards. Using handyside.legal allowed their teams the time to make their best case for the award. As Paul Gray of Brick Court Chambers put it: "we couldn't manage 90 barristers' submissions across 35 practice areas without it."
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