FAQs

The Research End Date is specific to each research project on a given practice area and tells you when our researcher will no longer be available to referees to carry out interviews with them. After this date, referee statuses will change to either Contacted or Unable to contact, based on whether our attempts to reach your referee were successful or not.  

Once the Research End Date passes, the researcher will be collating the information to determine our rankings together with an experienced Research Manager or Principal Research Specialist and will then move on to research a different practice area. To capture any late responses from referees we receive and consider while the researcher is carrying out this task, the statuses will continue to update if any further contact is made with a referee within 20 days after the Research End Date. After this date, there will be no further updates and the section will move to your ‘Historic’ tab.