About Daniel Sultan Consultancy Ltd
About the founder
Daniel Sultan Consultancy Ltd was founded in November 2024, with the aim to help law firms to optimise their submissions to legal directories, such as Chambers and Partners, Legal 500, IFLR1000, ALB and others. The founder, Daniel Sultan, worked on the Asia-Pacific team at Chambers and Partners from November 2015 until August 2024.
Whether you are looking to gain a first ranking, or trying to improve existing rankings, the services of Daniel Sultan Consultancy Ltd are designed to help you put your best foot forward when submitting to the legal directories, based on insights gained by the founder, Daniel Sultan (myself), whilst working at Chambers and Partners for many years.
I spent several years overseeing Chambers research and rankings in South-East Asia and South Asia, presiding over practice area changes and guiding researchers on following the Chambers methodological approach. This has led to a strong understanding of the legal directories submission process as it relates to Asia-Pacific.
Legal directories: Services provided
Daniel Sultan Consultancy Ltd provides different options depending on the firm’s requirements, including:
- Training sessions for business development teams and/or lawyers, including best practice tips on submissions, referee lists and standing out to the researcher/editors.
- Feedback on past submissions a firm has made, in order to optimise future submissions, including tailored advice on key methodological criteria specific to relevant practice areas.
- Feedback/editing of upcoming submissions.
- Advice on referee lists to be sent to the legal directories.
- Full writing of submission forms to be put forward by a firm, for Chambers and other legal directories, including extensive guidance on the submissions and ranking process.
Areas of expertise: Legal directories
- Legal directory practice area definitions and how to effectively present your firm’s expertise within these definitions.
- Demonstrating complexity and significance of work through your written work highlights.
- Bench strength and bringing individual lawyers onto legal directories’ radars.
- Selecting and interacting with referees. Best practice tips for choosing referees and dealing with common issues that arise.
- Handling Chambers law firm interviews and maintaing contact with the research team.
- Legal markets in Asia-Pacific.
- As well as Chambers, I have experience of writing legal directory submissions for Legal 500, Asian Legal Business and IFLR1000.
Additional services provided to law firms:
- Client feedback research to be conducted by survey, followed by the writing of a report on areas of improvement and market growth opportunities. During my time at Chambers, I gained extensive experience of conducting survey-based research of Asia-Pacific legal markets.
- English language editing work aside from that which is related to legal directories submissions.