Five ways to make the most of your legal directory rankings
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:
Diversity, equality, technology and fees top of general counsel agenda
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...
Six ways to maximise your impact at events using social media
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...
Did the Daily Mail succeed in sinking the RNLI?
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,...
Is it time we were all a bit more vulnerable?
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...
Thought Leader Interview: Brian O’Gorman
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...
How to grow your brand at the IBA conference 2019 in Seoul
The International Bar Association’s annual conference is fast approaching in the diaries of members and non-members alike. This year, lawyers, academics and all other professionals involved in the legal sector will meet in Seoul, Korea; with the 2020 conference then due to take place in Miami, Florida. As one of the largest associations of lawyers in the...
Thought Leader Interview: Daniel Winterfeldt
Daniel Winterfeldt, the founder of the InterLaw Diversity Forum, talks about work-life balance at an international firm, why he set up the forum, the growing importance of diversity when selecting counsel and why he thinks law firms should set diversity targets. Daniel, you are the founder and chair of the InterLaw...
Did the letter kill the press release?
Communication, it is now assumed, is all about platforms like Twitter - powerful figures check the micro-blogging site to find out if they have been fired, and it’s where we expect to see insults traded. But the last few weeks, I’ve been seeing an awful lot of old-fashioned letters making the...
How to make a Johnson of yourself in the Hunt to be leader
If the Conservative party leadership contest were being decided by any means other than the votes of the peculiar constituency of the party's membership, we might be seeing it play out like Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra. Think Boris as the debauched, but infinitely more characterful Antony (‘the greatness of life is...