Preparing for Legal Directories Season

LexRex Communications invites you to start your preparations for Chambers and Partners and The Legal 500 submissions season with our founder and resident legal directories expert, Victoria Moffatt and Sarah Bridgman, Legal Directories Manager at Shoosmiths.

In this session, you will learn how to get ahead of the competition by planning your legal directories approach early and effectively.

We'll take you through:

• Legal directories strategy
• Early planning and why it is important
• Planning for 2025 / 2026 launch season
• What to do if you weren't successful where expected
• Legal directories best practice
• What is changing this year with Chambers and Partners and The Legal 500
• Interactive Q&A

Join us for our webinar on Wednesday 1st October with our founder and resident legal directories specialist, Victoria Moffatt and Sarah Bridgman, Legal Directories Manager at Shoosmiths..

LexRex: Preparing for Legal Directories Season

Wednesday 1st October

1pm - 2pm

About Victoria Moffatt

Victoria Moffatt is our legal directories specialist and the managing director of LexRex Communications; a specialist PR and communications consultancy serving the global legal community.

With a particular interest and passion for legal directories strategy and drafting, Victoria has spent 15 years honing her directories knowledge and expertise.

Victoria is a non-practising solicitor and has many years’ experience of working with Top 100, multi-disciplinary and niche law firms; both in private practice as a lawyer and during her communications career.

About Sarah Bridgman

Sarah Bridgman is Legal Directories Manager at Shoosmiths, where she has led the firm’s strategically aligned directories programme for the past seven years. In that time, Shoosmiths has become one of the UK’s top six firms by Chambers rankings, with 16 Band 1 rankings and a place in Chambers’ “Most Elite Law Firms in Britain” table.

Specialising in partner engagement and submission strategy, Sarah develops inventive methods to demystify the directories process, improve the quality of submissions, and ensure the breadth of Shoosmiths’ talent and work is reflected in top-tier results. Her approach has been recognised externally too — with shortlistings at the Legal Innovation Awards and The Legal 500 naming Shoosmiths “Marketing Team of the Year.”

Sarah brings both expertise and enthusiasm to what can sometimes feel like the dark arts of legal directories, helping partners turn the process into a genuine opportunity for profile-raising and business development.

The LexRex Communications legal directories expert event series is partnered with Today’s Media, Publishing, Events and Marketing experts within the legal sector.