Chambers and Partners, the leading provider of legal rankings, data and analytics solutions to the legal profession, has acquired Lamp House Strategy, an innovator in legal insights. The acquisition was first announced in June 2024.
Chambers and Lamp House Strategy have partnered for the last 18 months and co-developed ‘Leading Teams’, a data-driven solution enabling law firms’ leaders to attract, retain and motivate their best talent. Chambers is now acquiring Lamp House Strategy to accelerate their evolution as a provider of data and analytics solutions for the legal profession.
For over 30 years, Chambers has differentiated the very best legal talent by identifying and ranking law firms and lawyers globally. Its research methodology is unrivalled in accuracy, depth and quality, delivering indispensable data insights based on rankings that truly reflect ability and talent.
Lamp House Strategy is an insights business, specialising in the legal market. Its team has long-standing expertise in research and data innovation and has developed the first in-depth legal industry framework to measure responsible business strategies in a holistic way, enabling law firms to positively impact their people, planet and profits.
Tim Noble, Chief Executive of Chambers, commented: “We are just at the beginning of the journey of showcasing the potential of the data we have been collecting for over 30 years. Leading Teams, which was co-developed between Chambers and Lamp House Strategy, has had great feedback from our customers, and demonstrates the depth and quality of insights that our teams will be able to develop together.
“I am delighted to join forces and accelerate the pace of our development in data and analytics offerings to help firms across the global legal market gather more insight from the strength of Chambers’ research, along with the expertise and knowledge of the Lamp House Strategy team.”
Lisa Hart Shepherd, CEO of Lamp House Strategy said: “Lamp House Strategy was set up to be able to harness the competitive nature of the legal profession and create a progressive movement for positive change. Our starting point has been developing proprietary, best practice frameworks tailored to the legal profession to progress both Talent and Responsible business strategies.
“Our team has a track record in creating market-first data offerings driven by robust research, which supports law firms and their clients to make better decisions. We are excited to join Chambers as this will allow us to leverage its strong brand and geographic reach alongside our combined data to give firms the insights they need to achieve sustainable growth.”