An Innovative New Law Firm Self-Ranking Tool with Molly Huie and Sara Lord

Concepts: Data Analytics, Legal Tech

Law firm headcount and revenues are a poor proxy for measuring leadership and excellence.

In this episode I had the pleasure of chatting with Molly Huie, team leader of proprietary, industry thought-leadership surveys and data-based award programs at Bloomberg Industry Group. Joining me to interrogate Molly is data strategist Sara Lord of Reed Smith, the best kind of tech, law, and legal-tech nerd.

We interviewed Molly about Bloomberg’s relatively new law firm ranking service that we think is pretty innovative. It helps firms make detailed, four-pronged examining of performance and effectiveness that goes beyond traditionally examined characteristics and metrics.

The new Leading Law Firms program blends financial strength, talent, growth, innovation, and excellence-related metrics into an interactive experience where you can sort, compare, and drill into firm-level dashboards to reveal actionable metrics.

What makes it different? The data is submission-only and transparently shared, with sensitive answers aggregated for scoring rather than exposed as competitive intel. The tool is also unique in its ability to reveal — via an interactive interface — how small and midsize firms may innovate as well as, or faster than, the giants.

Who benefits? We talk through the types of professionals expected to get the most value out of this tool, e.g., business development and marketing leaders seeking sharper positioning, managing partners who desire meaningful and comparative performance metrics, among others.

Enrollment is now open. Check it out!

Disclosure: I am not being compensated for sharing this. God knows I’ve asked.

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Molly Huie
Molly HuieTeam Lead - Data, Legal Analytics & Business, Bloomberg Industry Group
Molly Huie is a data and analytics leader at Bloomberg Industry Group, where she oversees proprietary legal industry surveys, benchmarking programs, and award initiatives—turning legal market data into actionable insights for law firms and in-house teams. She leads Bloomberg’s Leading Law Firms ranking and other benchmarking tools that help firms evaluate performance across financial strength, growth, talent, innovation, and excellence. Prior to Bloomberg, Molly led global syndicated research at Forrester Research and holds a B.A. from Butler University and an M.S. focused on research design and statistics.
Sara Lord
Sara LordHead of Strategic Insights, Reed Smith LLP
Sara Lord is Head of Strategic Insights at Reed Smith LLP, where she leads data intelligence and analytics to inform firm leadership and lawyer decision-making. She combines experience as a former practicing attorney and data strategist to help legal teams transform complex data into actionable insights that support operations, innovation, and client service. Sara earned her J.D. from New York University School of Law and began her career in data analytics before transitioning to legal and legal-tech strategy roles.
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