[busterarm]

> This is particularly shocking given that litimetrics is a legal service provider.

Not so shocking. Law firm ranking services are their competition. They drew a conclusion from the data that supports their business.

Law firm rankings absolutely can provide a value. Both on the firm and client side of the transaction.

Imagine you're on the client side of a qui tam (Whistleblower) or Immigration case. Are you going to bring that case to a law firm that you don't have visibility into a) how the firm is trusted by their clients and b) how the law firm is regarded among other law firms? That would be crazy!

Heck, in a qui tam you can't even get quality analytics into how well a firm litigates a case because the best qui tam cases get picked up and tried by the Federal Government!

(Disclosure: I'm a dev at a law firm.)

[rrr298]

Rankings seem to be very subjective and to be a function of firm biz dev teams: http://www.chambersandpartners.com/submissions

Size of marketing team might correlate with success/positive market perception though.