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In early 2022, the Compliance Metrics store was launched in the ever-evolving field of compliance and investigations, created by former Carey employees and internal compliance managers Maximiliano Portales and Hector Juan Hernandez. and the Chilean litigation, regulation and transaction firm Pereira Antolín was recently co-founded by Carlos Pereira Jadue, specialist in tax, litigation, transactions and corporate law, and Félix Antolín Martínez, expert in arbitration, litigation and ADR (former senior associate and partner of Albagli Zaliasnik and Juppet Pereira Antolín Abogados, respectively). Rankings are based on a number of criteria, but simply put, we highlight the practice area teams that provide in-house counsel with the most innovative and innovative advice. Our research is based on feedback from 300,000 clients worldwide, law firm filings and interviews with leading lawyers, as well as a team of researchers with unparalleled experience in the legal market. Because the Chilean legal market has traditionally lacked diversity (minorities and women are disproportionately absent from leadership positions), Chilean law firms are increasingly active in the Chilean branch of the Vance Center for International Justice`s Women in the Profession (WIP) program. And several law firms can now claim quotas of 40% – or more – of women/men among their employees, and with an ever-increasing number of women at the partner level. Law firms are also increasingly implementing new policies to allow flexibility for employees with young children. The goal of The Legal 500 is to help in-house lawyers and legal teams find the right advisors through our firm rankings and editorials, which are available for free on this website. Our rankings are based on feedback from 300,000 internal colleagues and our access to law firms and confidential matters, which are independently evaluated by our researchers. Interviews are based on a standard questionnaire. However, follow-up questions and more comprehensive conversations about specific law firms and key issues that influence the purchase of legal services are indeed the norm.
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Client research conducted for The Legal 500 consists of two main components and includes qualitative and quantitative analyses. Each year, we write to companies asking them to provide information about their areas of expertise and to ask for specific details about the work done in the previous year (some of which is confidential and not publicly available). This approach gives us a consistent level and standardized data quality, allowing us to compare legal service providers with greater accuracy and security. In general, the high-end of the market has remained stable: Barros & Errázuriz, Carey, Claro & Cia., Cariola Díez Pérez-Cotapos and Philippi Prietocarrizosa Ferrero DU & Uría remain at the top of the market with a strong hunting field – including Morales & Besa, Prieto Abogados (freshly housed in new offices in Vitacura as the legal district shows signs of Las Condes migration) and Guerrero Olivos (which has proven resilient in the face of staff losses. in 2021); and a number of offices with international connections such as Baker McKenzie Chile, Garrigues Chile, DLA Piper Chile, CMS Carey & Allende and newcomer Cuatrecasas.