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Welcome to the latest edition of Legal LinkedInfluencers.
This quarter, we surveyed approximately 200,000 profiles – everyone we could find who works at a top UK 250 law firm. That is ten times the number we looked at just a year ago.
It means that anyone who ranks in this edition has earned their place against a far larger field. And it means that firms can turn to us for a more accurate picture as to how their teams are investing their time on this platform.
A major finding this quarter is that firms’ need to stop treating their LinkedIn population as one audience.
There are several distinct groups, and they need distinct conversations, training and curation.
For the influencers: give them freedom, give them coaching, give them data about what resonates with their audience.
For the ambassadors: make the content worth amplifying. Give them a curated feed of the firm’s best posts, make reposting frictionless, and recognise them for doing it.
For the rare ones who do both: study what makes them tick and protect them from the burnout that comes with producing at twice the rate of everyone else.
The era of the all-staff email saying “please share this post” should be over. It was always lazy, if we are being honest with ourselves.
In 2026, precision matters.
Ask the right question of the right group, and you produce the right outcome. Ask the same question of everyone, and you produce noise.
Each quarter, we analyse thousands of legal professionals on LinkedIn to identify the most influential voices.
For the main lists, the scoring system remains consistent:
Power Score = (total likes) + (4 × total comments) on all original posts published between 1 January and 31 March 2026.
To qualify, individuals must have posted at least six times during the quarter. This is to avoid a flash-in-the-pan ranking based purely on a once-in-a-career partnership promotion, for example.
Should you be ranked in our reports?
The report includes a link to a calculator where you can work out whether you should be included in our tables.
As a guide, these are roughly the scores you need to rank in each of the tables:
Top 200: 1,800
Leaders: 900
Indies: 900
Barristers: 1,100
GCs: 650
If you are anywhere near these numbers by the end of the quarter, it’s worth submitting your data through this form here at the end of the next quarter.
Everyone on Linkedin has a voice. What’s yours?
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