How to Find Best Firms In New City Forum

[Anonymous User]

I work for a V10 and recently moved to a new small-to-medium market city. I would like to efficiently identify the best firms for my specialty to target them for outreach. Is Chambers the best way to do that, even for a smaller city, or is there another resource that might be helpful here?

[Anonymous User]

I work for a V10 and recently moved to a new small-to-medium market city. I would like to efficiently identify the best firms for my specialty to target them for outreach. Is Chambers the best way to do that, even for a smaller city, or is there another resource that might be helpful here?

I'd suggest using Chambers & Partners rankings but also using the "individuals" tab as well as sometimes smaller good firms only have ranked partners rather than whole firm.

[papermateflair]

I work for a V10 and recently moved to a new small-to-medium market city. I would like to efficiently identify the best firms for my specialty to target them for outreach. Is Chambers the best way to do that, even for a smaller city, or is there another resource that might be helpful here?

Are you looking to lateral/for potential job opportunities, or just general networking? If you have a bar association with a group for your specialty, you should definitely start attending those meetings. Everyone there may not be at the "best firms" but it will help you make connections and some of those folks likely do have friends at the "best firms."

[Anonymous User]

I work for a V10 and recently moved to a new small-to-medium market city. I would like to efficiently identify the best firms for my specialty to target them for outreach. Is Chambers the best way to do that, even for a smaller city, or is there another resource that might be helpful here?

I'd suggest using Chambers & Partners rankings but also using the "individuals" tab as well as sometimes smaller good firms only have ranked partners rather than whole firm.

Yes, this. Chambers is pretty good but you should make sure to look at both firm and partner ratings—a lot of smaller-market practice is working for small groups with e.g. 1-3 partners. Credentials of associates are also a decent but imperfect proxy. You should also be able meet associates in your area and pick up gossip from them, markets of this size are everyone-knows-everyone situations. You can also try grads of your law school.

[Fozzyfuzzy]

Why don’t you just post the city here so that people on this site can tell you the best firms in it?