Company Description

In-person, online or anywhere in between, L&E Research connects companies with the right people to talk. Our Chicago facility sits on Michigan Avenue in the heart of the Magnificent Mile, 17 miles from O'Hare International Airport (ORD) and 13 miles from Midway (MDW), steps from the city's hotels, dining and transit. Five focus group suites, large enough for jury research and theater-style sessions, come with tiered viewing rooms and secure HD video streaming for focus groups, in-depth interviews and large-audience work.

Chicago is also home to L&E's medical simulation suite, a clinical-grade environment built for health care research. The space integrates wall-mounted oxygen, suction, infusion pumps and monitoring equipment and its modular layout can recreate a hospital room, a home-care setting or a hybrid scenario. Health care teams use it to validate medical device interfaces, protocols and workflows in lifelike conditions while capturing behavioral and ergonomic data through built-in observation and streaming.

Experts in qualitative research recruitment since 1984.

L&E Research is a qualitative research recruitment and solutions partner that has connected brands with people since 1984. For more than 40 years, we have done one thing exceptionally well: finding the right people and creating the conditions for honest, productive conversations. Our clients recommend us 99% of the time, a reputation built on quality, not volume.

Nationwide recruitment, backed by a verified panel of 1.6 million.

We provide nationwide recruitment of qualified, verified participants for both qualitative and quantitative research, whether your study runs in person, online, remote or hybrid. Our proprietary panel of more than 1.6 million active U.S. participants is recruited with intention and managed to research-grade standards, with transparent feasibility at every stage. From low-incidence health care segments and engaged consumers to legal and mock trial participants and hard-to-reach specialty audiences, we know how to find the right people and keep them showing up.

Data quality you can stand behind.

Trustworthy insights start with trustworthy participants. L&E builds data quality in from the first recruit, with participant identity verification, active fraud detection and certification to ISO 20252:2019 for market research quality and ISO 27001:2022 for information security. Our certifications are issued by CIRQ, the Certification Institute for Research Quality, following an independent audit. As the industry confronts rising fraud and synthetic responses, our integrity standards protect the decisions our clients make.

Specialized teams for health care, consumer and legal research.

Our work is organized around the sectors that depend on it most. L&E Health delivers precise, efficient recruitment of patients, caregivers and health care professionals. L&E Consumer brings decades of expertise to product, sensory and shopper research. L&E Legal supports attorneys and trial consultants with reliable recruitment and seamless mock trial execution. When a project calls for more than recruitment, L&E Insights manages the full research process, from methodology design through analysis and reporting.

Facilities nationwide, plus the infrastructure to go anywhere.

L&E operates top-rated research facilities in Raleigh, Chicago, Cincinnati, Columbus, Denver, New York City orlando and Tampa, including dedicated sensory environments. Each offers flexible, modular space, comfortable client lounges and the latest HD video streaming and recording through our secure client portal. For studies that reach beyond our walls, our virtual and remote capabilities and vetted partner network extend the same standards to research anywhere in the world.

The people for you.

 At L&E, we believe better conversations lead to better decisions. That belief has guided us since 1984 and it shows up in every recruit we deliver, every facility we run and every relationship we build. In-person, online or anywhere in between, we're the people for you.