Coram Chambers
From nine barrister rankings in 2016 to sixty-nine today, with set rankings in two areas.
Directory submissions for chambers and law firms
Time better spent.
Each case is entered once, by the barrister who knows it. From there it becomes your Chambers & Partners and Legal 500 submissions, your referee spreadsheets and, next year, your starting point.
Software and consultancy for directory campaigns, in use by barristers’ sets and law firms for many years. Rebuilt from the ground up in 2026.
Used by sets including
- Brick Court Chambers
- Twenty Essex
- 39 Essex Chambers
- Fountain Court Chambers
- 3 Verulam Buildings
- Coram Chambers
“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.”
How it works
Entered once. Carried all the way through.
A case is written up by the barrister who argued it, checked by the people who run the campaign, and turned into both directories’ documents without anyone typing it again. Next year, it is where you start.
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Barristers
Enter
Members add their own cases and referees, in their own time, from chambers, home or a train. Each sees only their own work.
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Admins
Review
Your team checks what has come in, ticks what goes forward, and keeps practice areas, members and rankings in order.
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At a click
Generate
Submissions and referee spreadsheets for Chambers & Partners and The Legal 500, each in the directory’s own format.
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Year on year
Track
Rankings kept per barrister and per practice area, so you can see what moved, and next year starts from this one.
Time and accuracy
Weeks of work, given back to your team.
No cutting and pasting between Word and Excel, and no keying errors. The data is entered once and checked once, so what reaches the directories is what your members wrote.
75%
Less time on submissions for barristers.
66%
Less time on submissions for admins.
Freeing up weeks, or even months, of valuable staff time in a campaign.
“Handyside is a crucial tool in helping our small marketing team to organise and streamline a complex and time-consuming task, and enabling members and employees to work collaboratively.”
“Handyside is crucial to our ability to produce quality submissions for both directories in a timely and efficient way.”
“We are all delighted at last night’s outcomes in winning both Commercial and Banking set of the year … thank you for all the work you have put in.”
Software and service
The software does the collating. We know the directories.
handyside.legal is a product and a practice. Many of our clients use both: the portal for the work, and the directors for the campaign.
The software
A private portal for your set, now in its fourth iteration. Barristers enter their cases and referees; admins review them and produce every submission and referee spreadsheet for both directories at a click. Built for sets with many members and many practice areas.
How it worksThe consultancy
Our directors have run directory campaigns for sets for years, and know the directories’ people and processes. We help with everyday problem-solving, longer-term issues and time-critical crises, alongside the software or on its own.
About the servicePrivate by design
Your set’s portal, and no one else’s.
Directory work is confidential: cases, clients, referees. So nothing is shared between chambers, and inside chambers each person sees what their role allows.
- Its own domainEach chambers has its own private portal, at its own address.
- Its own databaseYour data is held in an isolated database. Nothing is shared with any other set.
- Members see their ownA barrister sees only their own cases and referees.
- Admins by areaPractice-area admins can be given just their practice areas.
- Any deviceWorks on a phone, with a dark mode. Microsoft sign-in is coming. Soon
News
From the campaign season.
Twenty Essex
Forty-nine submissions across six guides for the 2025/6 campaign, all collected and collated in one place.
Two out of three ain’t bad!
Brick Court Chambers, Chambers of the Year, and 39 Essex Chambers, Highly Commended.
Talk to our team
The next step is a conversation.
Daniel will show you the portal, answer your questions and talk through the campaign ahead.
- Telephone
- +44 (0) 7973 721346
- info@handyside.legal