Legal 500 USA 2012: Deadline Reminder

November 2011 sees the deadlines for editorial submissions and client referees for this year’s Legal 500 U.S

Sections due on November 15 2011:

• Intellectual property
• Labor and employment
• Litigation
• Mergers, acquisitions and buyouts
• Real estate

Sections due on November 22 2011:

• Finance
• Industry focus
• Investment fund formation and management
• Media, technology and telecoms
• Tax

Firm interviews are conducted from November 28 2011 to January 20 2012, and the new edition is published in June 2012

A number of new categories have been added this year, including financial services litigation, municipal bankruptcy, and not-for-profit.

Also, remember that client referees need to be sent separately from the editorial submission in the prescribed spreadsheet form.

For more on submission guidelines, see here

The key contacts at the Legal 500 are:

Editor: David Burgess, david.burgess@legalease.co.uk, +44 20 7396 5665

Submissions: Laura Brown, laura.brown@legal500.com +44 20 7071 0161

Client referees: Victoria Hill, victoria.hill@legal500.com +44 20 7396 5682

(Pictured: Dallas, Texas – taken by Lloyd Pearson in May 2008)