Clients want a lawyer's expertise – that's why they hire you. But while scouring your firm's website will give them some insight into the legal knowledge that you hold, there are more effective ways to highlight the fact that you can provide exactly what they are looking for. We're not talking...
The startup is often feted as the future of the business world. At the same time we are constantly made aware that, statistically, a large proportion of startups will eventually fail. So, startups represent both great potential and a lack of permanence. Most new businesses generally suffer from a lack of...
Referees are key to the directories process. However, they also provide the source of the widest range of questions we receive from clients who sometimes struggle to get to grips with the way the things work. It doesn't help that different directories have different rules. So, let's start with the...
“What do feminists wear?” That might sound like the opener to a joke – probably a bad joke and one that might make you secretly want to slap the person telling it – but it's not. It's the question that's been circulating, in one form or another, ever since Harry Potter...
Facebook has a problem today. Or to be more precise, the social media platform has two problems – both are being played out in the media, and one of them was entirely avoidable. Websites where the content is user-generated will always present a problem for the people who run them. For...
The 12th April is, apparently, the anniversary of the day that the first US colonists arrived at 'Cape Disappointment'. This year that coincides with the publication of the EMEA Legal 500. How, I wonder, will you be feeling? Disappointed? Elated? Vindicated? Numb? I'm thinking especially about the Middle East chapters. This is...
As a fan of 1980s US TV exports, I'm worried that the five days I have planned in Miami won't include many encounters with people who wear shoes with no socks, or who sport a white blazer jacket with the sleeves rolled up. Instead, this will be time spent with lawyers...
The Lord Chancellor's decision this week to cut the discount rate used to calculate lump-sum payouts in personal injury (PI) claims from 2.5 percent to minus 0.75 percent was bad news for insurers but good news for those injured through no fault of their own. But it was the Association of British Insurers...
Ah the Oscars 2017. Emma Stone in fringed Givenchy, Jimmy Kimmel ribbing Matt Damon and – finally – an awards year that represents a real show of diversity. The Academy must feel so proud of everything that the 2017 awards will be remembered for… right? Well, unless you've had your head...
The Lawyer is probably one of the best-known publications in the legal sector and every year they throw a rather glitzy awards ceremony where the best and brightest talents in the industry are recognised over a fancy dinner. At MD Communications we regularly help firms to boost their chances of being...
