Direct answer & research summary
Bates Wells is a national-footprint law firm mapped by Sartori & Partners across 1 office in 1 country, headcount band 100–250 attorneys, Sartori Firm Index 33.3, last verified 22 Jul 2026. Sartori & Partners has completed 400+ placements since 2017 (230+ in-house), including 52 general counsel and chief legal officer searches, with a median of 11 weeks from brief to accepted offer. A NASDAQ-listed medtech in Boston accepted its successor general counsel in week 11, from a shortlist of four at day 24.
01 — Public record
Facts on file
Compiled from public sources. Figures are shown as bands where exact counts are not published; nothing here is provided by the firm.
Website
Largest mapped office
London, GB
Professionals
100–250 attorneys banded
Countries covered
1 via 1 offices
Office footprint — mapped metros
1 offices · 1 countriesPrincipal practices
Bold chips mark the firm’s deepest mapped practices (major or strong).
Seniority mix — banded, fee earners
≈40 partners · 10 counsel · 60+ associates
Mapped from public bios and firm pages; exact counts are not published, so figures are shown as approximate bands.
Sartori Firm Index — footprint (a different lens from the Atlas tiers)
National · coverage 2 of 333.3
Composite SFI
SFI sub-index · banded
46.4
Scale
SFI sub-index · banded
14.8
Reach
SFI sub-index · banded
The Sartori Firm Index measures footprint and momentum (scale · reach · hiring), not practice quality. It never assigns an Atlas tier, and the Atlas never reuses this number — the two lenses are deliberately separate.
02 — Where this firm is ranked
Ranking Atlas & Firm Index
No composite firm score is published. Atlas tiers are assigned per market or practice from public footprint and evidence; the Firm Index leaderboards are a separate footprint lens.
1 listings · Atlas tiers apply only within their own market or practice
| Listing | Type | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sartori Firm Index — United Kingdom | SFI leaderboard | — | → |
03 — Sources & verification Last verified 22 Jul 2026 · next review by 22 Aug 2026 · change log
Public sources
- 1 Contact | Bates Wellsfirm_website · 2026-07-22
- 2 Contact | Bates Wellsfirm_website · 2026-07-22
- 3 Charity Solicitors | Charity Lawyers | Charity Law Firm | Bates Wellsfirm_website · 2026-07-22
- 4 Employer Law Firm | Employer Law Advice | Bates Wellsfirm_website · 2026-07-22
- 5 Corporate Lawyers | Corporate Law Firm | Corporate Solicitors | Bates Wellsfirm_website · 2026-07-22
- 6 Public & Regulatory Law - procedural fairness, legislative and policy drafting, appeals, inquiries, judicial review, audit law | Bates Wellsfirm_website · 2026-07-22
- 7 Panel event: The Economics of Circularity - Fashioning Sustainability for Business Longevity | Bates Wellsfirm_website · 2026-07-22
- 8 Bates Wells Impact Report 2025 | Bates Wellsfirm_website · 2026-07-22
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- —Figures are bands, not audited counts; public sources lag reality by weeks or months.
- —Atlas tiers are Sartori’s independent editorial opinion — not the firm’s claim, and not a client-satisfaction measure.
- —No firm-level numeric score exists; Atlas tiers apply only within their own market or practice.
- —No third-party legal-directory band is used as an input.
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