Legal Week

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Essential reading for business lawyers

Our flagship title is dedicated exclusively to commercial lawyers in the UK and major international jurisdictions. With the most talented team of journalists in the legal marketplace, Legal Week breaks the biggest news stories in the profession and delves into the issues behind the headlines. In addition in 2008, Legal Week won the PPA Business Magazine of the Year, which was the second time having also won this award in 2001.

With regular features, interviews and popular sections such as Deal Week, it delivers the news that lawyers want to read. Once a month, Legal Week publishes its global issue with a focus on an international jurisdiction and greater coverage of international legal news.

In addition, Legal Week has one of the most comprehensive recruitment sections in the marketplace, with its primary focus on roles in the biggest UK law firms and in-house positions within major corporates.

Legalweek.com

Since its re-launch in January 2007, Legalweek.com has emerged as the online meeting place for business lawyers. The site is quick and easy to navigate, providing time-impoverished lawyers with access to Legal Week's award winning content.

Legalweek.com also plays host to a range of interactive features including Talkback, The Editor's Blog, The Legal Week Wiki, Daily Diary, and the hugely popular Career Clinic. The clinic is aimed at job mobile assistants and associates, and invites users to share and post their work-related problems on the site with advice given by fellow practitioners.

Unlike other job boards, legalweekjobs.com has the ability to attract those lawyers actively seeking new opportunities as well as those browsing our news and analysis, reports, directories and user-generated content.

Target audience

  • UK top-100 law firms
  • UK commercial law firms with ten or more partners
  • International commercial law firms in London and globally
  • UK corporate counsel, barristers' chambers
  • Students and law faculty staff

USPs

  • Legal Week keeps business lawyers fully up-to-date with the latest legal news and analysis
  • As a community based website, legalweek.com provides an online meeting place for business lawyers
  • Legal Week and legalweekjobs.com provides job-hunters with all of the latest legal roles both in print and online
  • Advertising in Legal Week products allow clients to connect directly with the legal profession
  • Legal Week's prestigious events provide excellent content and networking opportunities

Readership overview

The legal professionals that Legal Week circulate to are based in partner firms with ten or more partners, within the UK and globally. In addition Legal Week is also read by in-house lawyers that are based in large corporations. These professionals are wealthy and influential individuals whose hectic roles mean they work extremely long hours, hold considerable responsibilities but also enjoy active and affluent lifestyles.

Editorial philosophy

Legal Week's editorial philosophy is to be essential reading for business lawyers in the UK and across the globe both in print and online. We aim to achieve this by breaking relevant and accurate news on market developments as and when it happens. We then follow this up by providing first-class analysis of the most important news and trends within the legal market.

While we will not shirk from telling some unpalatable truths, we do also strive to be fair in our dealings with firms and individuals. We also go out of our way to engage our readers in our activities through interviews and surveys, by commissioning articles from senior members of the profession and by encouraging people at all levels of seniority to post comments on our web site.

As well as being an authoritative read, we also recognise that we have a mission to entertain and inform our readers. Considerable effort is therefore put into the design and layout both of the magazine and legalweek.com so that its' content is imaginatively presented and easy to digest. These high production values reflect the quality that underpins all of our editorial output.

Contact details

Recruitment Advertising:
Kerry Brooker
Tel: +44 (0)20 7316 9505
Email: Kerry.Brooker@incisivemedia.com

Display advertising:
Kevin Sinclair
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7316 9591
Email: kevin.sinclair@incisivemedia.com

Subscriptions:
Kim Ferrara
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7316 9283
Email: kim.ferrara@incisivemedia.com