Content and brand usage guidelines

Using Legal 500 Rankings, Commentary and Branding 

Legal 500 welcomes firms and organisations promoting their achievements and recognises the value of independent recognition. These guidelines explain how Legal 500 rankings, commentary and branding may be used. 

The guidelines form part of our wider terms of use and subscription terms and may be updated from time to time. 

 

1. What you may do 

Unless otherwise agreed in writing, you may: 

Refer to your rankings 

You may refer to your Legal 500 rankings, awards and other published recognition in: 

  • • websites 

  • • brochures 

  • • pitches and proposals 

  • • directories 

  • • capability statements 

  • • social media 

  • • press releases 

  • • recruitment materials 

  • • email signatures 

  • • presentations 

provided the information is presented accurately and without misleading, exaggerated or otherwise inadequate context. 

 

Quote published commentary 

You may quote reasonable extracts from commentary relating to your own firm, practice, lawyers or published rankings. 

Where reasonably practicable, quotations should:  

  • • be reproduced accurately; 

  • • not be taken out of context; and 

  • • include an attribution to Legal 500. 

 

Link to Legal 500 

You are encouraged to link directly to the relevant Legal 500 website page(s) wherever possible and appropriate. 

 

Use approved Legal 500 logos and badges 

Where Legal 500 provides official logos, badges or other branding assets, these may be used in accordance with any accompanying brand guidance. 

 

2. What you may not do 

Without our prior written permission, you must not: 

  • • reproduce substantial portions of Legal 500 editorial, rankings tables or database content; 

  • • reproduce complete practice area rankings or substantial extracts from them; 

  • • systematically copy or republish Legal 500 content; 

  • • create a competing or substitutive directory, database or research product using Legal 500 content; 

  • • imply that Legal 500 endorses your organisation, products or services beyond the published rankings or commentary; 

  • • alter quotations so that their meaning is changed; 

  • • remove copyright notices or attribution. 

 

3. Subscriber-only content 

Content made available exclusively to subscribers is licensed for the Subscriber's internal business use in accordance with the applicable Subscription Terms. 

Subscriber-only content may not be: 

  • • redistributed outside the authorised subscription; 

  • • incorporated into external publications or products; 

  • • systematically shared in a manner that circumvents the agreed subscription model. 

4. AI and automated use 

Unless expressly authorised by Legal 500, Legal 500 content must not be: 

  • • used to train, fine-tune or improve artificial intelligence or machine learning models; 

  • • incorporated into publicly available AI knowledge bases; 

  • • systematically extracted using automated tools to create competing datasets or services. 

Nothing in these guidelines prevents authorised users from using Legal 500 content in the ordinary course of their own work with generally available productivity tools, provided such use complies with the applicable Subscription Terms. 

 

5. Attribution 

Where Legal 500 content or research findings are quoted, we ask that attribution be included where reasonably practicable, for example: 

 

Source: Legal 500 EMEA 2026 

 

or 

 

Legal 500 UK 2026 

 

6. Fair use 

These guidelines are intended to facilitate reasonable promotional use of Legal 500 content. 

Occasional quotations and references that accurately reflect published Legal 500 content are generally permitted. 

If you are unsure whether a proposed use falls within these guidelines, please contact us before publication.