Who will contact the firm’s referees?
The majority of referees will be contacted by the researcher listed on the research schedule as being responsible for the area for which the firm has submitted. However, if the referee has also been put forward by a different firm for a different practice area, there is the possibility that they will have been contacted by another member of the research team. All researchers will ask about all practice areas, jurisdictions and firms the referee has recent experience with. All of this information is stored on our centralised database and can be accessed by all other researchers.
If you would like to give your referees a that we will be getting in touch, the best thing to do is to tell them to look out for an email from someone from Chambers, as opposed to a specific member of the research team. Our emails will always come from an email address ending with @chambers.com.
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When do you contact a firm’s referees?
The research schedule lists the research period for when we will be conducting the bulk of our research for each category and we aim to have contacted all referees by the end of it. We generally start our referee outreach towards the beginning of the ...
Will you tell me which referees have provided feedback?
No, we do not confirm the name of referees from whom we have collected feedback. Tools such as Referee Management are available, which enable you to track our progress in contacting your referees. This tool will provide updates when we have reached ...
What can I do if one of my firm’s referees says they haven’t been contacted?
We completely understand that emails get lost, accidentally deleted or caught up in spam filters, so the most important thing to do is to get in contact with the researcher assigned to the practice area and location you are submitting for (as listed ...
Do you contact referees for Europe-wide sections? Where do you get the feedback and quotes from?
We only contact referees for International Trade/WTO and Regulatory & Public Affairs (Environment, Agro/Food, and Government & Public Affairs). For all other Europe-wide practice areas, we use feedback gleaned from national research. If you upload ...
Do you ask referees about other firms?
Yes, we try to get as much feedback as possible on all the firms that the referee in question has used but putting them forward as a referee guarantees we will ask them specifically about their interactions with the firm(s) that put them forward. Our ...