Experience and Clients

Here's a taster of the range of clients and publications I have written, researched and edited for over the years as a legal writer and journalist, and the variety of different topics I have covered. Where my work is published online, I have included the link.

Please click through to read my work.

Significant Publications

• Blackstone's Guide to Becoming a Solicitor: Click Here
  Practical advice for students trying to secure the ever elusive training contract.
• Conveyancing Law in a Box (1st Edn) (published by Semple Piggot Rochez)
  Study CD Rom and Handbook on Conveyancing for Students
• Conveyancing Practice (Ars Legis)
  Explanation on conveyancing law and procedure in the UK. This was commissioned by the European law firm association Ars Legis and is written specifically for bankers, investors and the legal profession in Germany.

Client List includes:

All About Law, Cooperative Legal Services, Findlaw (US), Incisive Media, Indicator Ltd, International Bar Association, Law Donut, Legalease, LexisNexis, Shergroup, Thomson Reuters, The Times

Publication/Website List

All About Law, Good Lawyer Guide, International Bar Association Newsletter, Law Society Gazette, Law.com/uk, Lawbore Future Lawyer, The Lawyer, Legal Week, Legal Executive Journal, New Law Journal, Practical Lawyer, Student Law Review, Solicitors Journal, spr-consilio, Times Law Supplement, Times Student Law Supplement, Law Donut, Young Lawyer

Features

• Disability rights and wrongs - International Bar Association Newsletter (IBN).
• Is there a future for law firms in the fast-growing virtual universe? - Times on-line.
• For the good - pro bono work in a global recession - International Bar Association Newsletter.
• Virtual law firms - Law Society Gazette.
• Reaping the benefits - a look at the Solicitors Benevolent Association.
• Playing mind games - are Patients' rights eroded under the Mental Health Act?
• Willing and enabled - a look at the Disability Discrimination Act.
• Jury still out on Auld - the criminal justice system under Auld.
• Sole survivors - Sole practitioners versus the Big firms.
• Weaving web magic - the risks of ignoring advances in web technology.
• Going the distance - the impact of the Distance Selling Regulations.
• Feeling the blues - pre-election special.
• Blast from the past - the tort of misfeasance - new lease of life.
• rom rack and ruin - housing law - speeding up disrepair cases.
• Panels count the cost - Law Society solicitor panels.
• Please, take your partners - partnering structures between law firms and local authorities.
• Law firm networks: why be a member? - a look at law firm associations.

Other legal topics I have written on include:

Virtual Law Firms; Second Life - a Virtual Universe; Interpreters and the Global Judicial System; Blogging for Law Firms; Legal Issues in the Retail Industry; Law Firm Affiliations and Associations; The Property Market - update; Insurance Issues affecting Practitioners; Clients and Insurers; Counterfeiting and Piracy: Is a Global Policy Realistic?; Attorney/Client Privilege - the New Dangers; Financial Services - Legal update; The Legal Market: West Midlands; Managing Law Firms? It's Not All About Making Money; Pro bono work in a Global Recession; Law firms, Discrimination and Disabled Lawyers.

Law Firm Websites

I write and edit law firm websites. Examples include Caro Taylor Solicitor and Pearne & Co.

International: Country Specific Features

• Central Europe Special Report: Hungary for success - a contemporary look at the legal market in Hungary Click Here and in France: No Merci Click Here.
• Knowing me, knowing law - A look at the UK firms branching into Scandinavia and Denmark Click Here.

Research

I have regularly researched and written country editorials for European Legal 500 (EMEA), Legal 500 and MENA Business Guide. Countries include: Algeria, France, Hungary, Iran, Kuwait, Lebanon, Lichtenstein, Macedonia, Qatar, Syria and Tunisia.

Monthly Ezines and PR work

• Law Express
• Independent law firms

News coverage and PR

I have written the weekly news pages for Solicitors' Journal and the New Law Journal. I can also offer you editorial help, and PR assistance. Clients I have worked for include The Whitehall Partnership and Transport Briefing.

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