Research for the ALB 2014 Top 50 Largest Law Firms Rankings is now underway.

The deadline for submission has been extended to Monday Sep. 29, 2014.

Download the submission form and methodology here.
 
Our Research
• Firms were contacted in September 2014 and asked to provide partner and lawyer numbers across their Asian offices.
• Total fee-earners is the total number of partners, associates, counsel, foreign counsel and consultants. Trainees or pupils are not counted among fee-earners.
• In the instance where a firm does not make a submission, figures will be obtained either from the firm’s website or from last year’s submission. ALB accepts no responsibility for the accuracy of information published on a law firm’s website.
• Only lawyers and partners based in Asia will be counted.
• In the instance where two firms have the same total fee-earner headcount, the firm with the greater number of partners will be ranked higher.
• The research does not cover Australia and New Zealand.

Our Rankings
• The rankings will have one main table identifying the 50 largest law firms by headcount in Asia.
• ALB will also compile rankings tables identifying the largest law firms in the following jurisdictions: China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam.
• The rankings will feature both domestic and international firms. The following jurisdictions will have separate tables for domestic firms and international firms: China, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, South Korea

The Top 50 Largest Law Firm rankings will be published in ALB’s November 2014 issue.

Please direct all submissions for India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam to Vasundhara Chatterjee at Vasundhara.chatterjee@thomsonreuters.com.

Please direct all submissions for China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan to Kanishk Verghese at kanishk.verghese@thomsonreuters.com.