If you want to be ranked in a legal directory, make it easy for the analyst to assess the scope of your expertise and recent experience. By definition, ranking means 'a position in a hierarchy or scale'. It is graded and is therefore comparative.
You must present your credentials relative to your competitors - especially the other ranked firms.
How to Develop Legal Directory Submissions that get you Noticed
1. THE LAW OF RELATIVITY
HOW TO DEVELOP LEGAL
DIRECTORY SUBMISSIONS
THAT GET YOU NOTICED
2. IN 1905, ALBERT EINSTEIN
DETERMINED THE THEORY
OF RELATIVITY.
IN DOING SO, EINSTEIN INTRODUCED A REVOLUTIONARY
FRAMEWORK FOR ALL OF PHYSICS, AND PROPOSED NEW
CONCEPTS OF TIME AND SPACE.
3. LEGAL DIRECTORY
SUBMISSIONS
THE LAW OF RELATIVITY ALSO APPLIES TO
By definition, ranking means 'a position in a hierarchy or scale'. It is graded
and is therefore comparative.
If you present your firm's credentials in absolute terms, the analyst has
no point of reference.
4. THE LAW OF
RELATIVITY
is not rocket science; it's all about making it easy for the assessor to grade
your firm relative to your competitors - especially relative to the firms that are
already ranked.
6. DON'T
WRITE
We recorded [NUMBER] per
cent growth.
DO
WRITE
We recorded [NUMBER] per
cent growth compared
to the market average
of [NUMBER] per cent
(citation) ...
QUICK TIP
7. DON'T
WRITE
We acted in a number of major
matters. Be more specific.
DO
WRITE
We acted in [NUMBER] of the
ten largest matters this
year [REFERENCE]...
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MARKET EXPERTISE
8. 'EVERYONE IS ENTITLED TO
HIS OWN OPINION, BUT
NOT HIS OWN FACTS'.
DANIEL PATRICK MOYNIHAN, FOUR-TERM UNITED
STATES SENATOR AND AMBASSADOR
9. DON'T
WRITE
We believe we should be
ranked the same as... The
analyst is only interested in
facts.
DO
WRITE
Provided here is evidence as
to why we should be ranked
on a par with...
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10. DON'T
WRITE
Pages of dreary content.
DO
WRITE
Tell a story. Paint a picture.
Provide context.
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MARKET EXPERTISE