Legal directory submissions for barristers' chambers
Time better spent.
handyside.legal is where a chambers' Chambers & Partners and Legal 500 work lives. Barristers enter their own cases and referees. Admins review. The submissions and referee spreadsheets are generated in each directory's own format, at the click of a button.
Practice areas
| Practice area | Cases | Referees | Status | Documents |
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| Commercial Dispute Resolution | 24 | 31 | Generated | Download |
| Banking & Finance | 18 | 22 | Generated | Download |
| Insurance | 15 | 19 | Generating | … |
| Professional Negligence | 12 | 17 | In review | Generate |
| Construction | 9 | 14 | In review | Generate |
| Energy & Natural Resources | 7 | 11 | Collecting | 3 to chase |
- Brick Court Chambers
- Fountain Court Chambers
- Twenty Essex
- 39 Essex Chambers
- 3 Verulam Buildings
- Coram Chambers
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How it works
One system for the whole campaign, in four steps.
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Barristers enter
Each member adds their own cases and referees in their own portal, in their own time, from anywhere. They see only their own work.
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Admins review
Marketing teams and practice managers check the material, tick what goes forward, and keep practice areas, members and history in order.
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Generate
The Chambers & Partners and Legal 500 submissions and referee spreadsheets, in the directories' own formats, at a click. Edit the copy, not the data.
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Track
Rankings year on year, per barrister and per practice area, so next year's campaign starts from this one.
In their words
Suffice it to say, quite simply, we couldn't manage 90 barristers' submissions across 35 practice areas without it. And the cost is more than recouped in the time saving and in the resources required to prepare so many documents.
Why sets choose it
Less keying, fewer errors, better submissions.
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01 Time
75% less time for barristers
66% less time for admins
Our clients' own figures. A set's submissions are built from hundreds of cases and referees; collecting them once, in one place, is where the time goes back to the people who had been spending it.
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02 Accuracy
No cutting and pasting between Word and Excel, so no keying errors. The data is entered once, by the barrister who knows it, and the documents are generated from it. The written submission and the referee spreadsheet can never disagree.
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03 Results
A tried-and-tested system used by top sets for many years, now in its fourth iteration. Our users report improved rankings in both Chambers & Partners and The Legal 500, and the time they save goes on the work that brings business into chambers.
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04 Discretion
Each chambers has its own private portal on its own domain, with its own isolated database. Nothing is shared between sets. Each barrister sees only their own work; practice-area admins can be given just their areas.
The platform
Rebuilt from the ground up in 2026.
The first chambers are already live on the new platform. It is fast, it works properly on a phone, and it looks after a barrister on a train as well as an admin at a desk.
- A private portal for each chambersOwn domain, own isolated database. Nothing shared.
- Works on a phoneCases and referees entered from chambers, home or the train.
- Dark modeEasier on the eyes at the end of a long day.
- Microsoft sign-inComing soon: sign in with the account chambers already uses.
- Both directories, their formatsChambers & Partners and The Legal 500, submissions and referees.
- Rankings historyYear on year, per barrister and per practice area.
My cases
ET- Caldera Marine v Harbourmaster ShippingCommercial · Led by Eleanor Thorne KCReady
- Re Northgate Pension TrusteesPensions · Sole counselReady
- Aldwych Capital v BrennanBanking & Finance · JuniorDraft
- Oakhill Developments v Rivermead UtilitiesConstruction · Sole counselDraft
- Meridian Freight (in administration)Insolvency · Led by James Whitlock KCNew
Illustrative screen. Names and cases are fictional.
Software and service
Use the system on its own, or with the people who built it.
The software
A chambers' own portal for the whole directories campaign: barristers enter, admins review, the documents are generated, the rankings are tracked. Built for sets with many members and practice areas, and used by small marketing teams to run dozens of submissions across several guides.
The service
Our directors have run directory campaigns for sets for years and know the directories' people and processes. Many clients use both the software and the service: everyday problem-solving, longer-term planning, or a time-critical crisis the week before a deadline.
Results
A special thank you for all the hard work you put into the submissions and relationships with the directories. We are all delighted at last night's outcomes in winning both Commercial and Banking set of the year and Ali's win as banking silk.
Next step
See it with your own practice areas.
A conversation with our team, then a demonstration of the system. No self-serve sign-up, no obligation.