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Welcome to the latest edition of Legal LinkedInfluencers.
This quarter, we changed our own rules. For three or four years we ranked people on the totality of their output:
That rewarded volume, and volume is the wrong thing to reward for most busy lawyers.
So our headline measure is now each person’s ten best-performing posts of the quarter. We call it the 10×10.
Ten is enough to stay front of mind with the people you want work from, without asking an already-busy fee earner, barrister or firm leader to post 30 or 40 times a quarter.
The overall chart hasn’t disappeared – it’s still in these pages, because some business models need the widest possible awareness.
We’ve also continued to grow our tracked population, again, extending the indies category, and this quarter’s GCs get a report all of their own, launching shortly.
We hope you enjoy what you find in here.
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 April and 30 June 2026.
New this quarter: we take the scores of your ten best posts and add them up (10×10). This is now the primary ranking. The 10x10x10 goes a step further: the ten best 10×10 scores per firm, added together, to rank firms on peak signal rather than headcount.
A note on merged firms: several major mergers completed recently – Ashurst Perkins Coie, Hogan Lovells Cadwalader and Winston Taylor among them. Everyone in this report is named under their merged firm; you’ll find no legacy names in these pages. Non-UK arms of those mergers join the data from next quarter.
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: 1,950
Leaders: 1,500
Indies: 1,700
Barristers: 1,700
GCs: 1,100
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.
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We started the Legal LinkedInfluencers to inspire lawyers to get going on LinkedIn. Over the last three years, it’s turned into an amazing community of people within the legal sector.
This is where that community will live, and for the next 30 days, it’s free to join. After that, it’s £15 a month plus VAT if you choose to stay.
Inside the club, you’ll get:
