MD Communications has today announced that Linsay Leslie, head of our legal directories, bids and awards team, has been promoted to partner. Linsay has over 18 years’ experience in the legal sector. Having trained in Edinburgh with Shepherd and Wedderburn, Linsay was a projects and infrastructure lawyer with the firm,...
There are certainties in life. One being that at any time around the world, law firms are sweating their way towards another set of legal directory submission deadlines or reporting results that either spread joy or soul-ripping disappointment across their firms. Chambers and Partners released the latest UK Solicitor and UK...
Can you keep your staff and lawyers safe? Of course, you might say. The days when a highly flammable cast-off sofa sat in the staff kitchen area are long gone. We even have ‘mind your head’ signs up on the low ceiling above the basement stairs. But with offices these days...
In our latest Thought Leader interview, Matt Wilson, Associate GC at Uber, talks about the challenges of the role, relationships with external counsel, the importance of addressing mental health issues in the workplace and the role of legal directories in selecting counsel. You’ve certainly built an impressive legal career within the...
After all the hard work, your latest legal directory rankings are out. What do you do next? Our expert directories team has put together some quick tips to make the most of your results:
The rising confidence and power of in-house legal departments is set to put equality and diversity, technology, and reform of legal fees at the centre of a wide-ranging change in legal services. These are the conclusions of an MD Communications White Paper 'Demanding answers: How general counsel are changing legal...
Are you attending an event soon? As a lawyer, you may feel inundated with invitations, from charity and CSR related events such as the London Legal Walk, to smaller upskilling seminars and working breakfasts, to vast multi-national networking conferences such as the IBA annual conference. However, not only are these...
Head a long way north from the Kensington offices of the Daily Mail, and you get to my home town of Darlington. Keep on going, while tacking west, and you get to Bamburgh, where the RNLI Grace Darling Museum commemorates the woman whose efforts on 7 September 1838, aged just 22,...
I've spent the last few months heading weekly back and forth to Darlington, my home town where my parents still live. My lovely Mum is in the late stages of alzheimers. It’s been almost 10 years to get us where we are now. I launched MD Communications a few days before...
Brexit is still dominating the headlines so it's apt that our latest Thought Leader interview is with Brian O'Gorman, managing partner at Dublin-based law firm Arthur Cox. Brian shares his views on how Brexit will impact the legal sector and his firm and talks passionately about the need for...
