Legal Desire Insider is our weekly email for people who need to keep up with the legal industry without reading everything we publish.
One email a week. Deals, firm moves and the developments that actually change how the profession works, written by our editorial team and edited down to what is worth your time.
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What it covers
- Deals. Mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, private equity, project finance and venture funding, with the firms and teams that advised on them.
- Firm moves. Partner hires and exits, team lifts, office openings and closures, mergers between firms, and changes in leadership.
- Industry insight. What is shifting in how legal work gets bought, priced, staffed and delivered, including legal technology and artificial intelligence where it is genuinely changing practice rather than just being announced.
- Regulatory and judicial developments with real consequences for practitioners, across the jurisdictions we cover.
- The best of what we published that week, including contributed analysis you may have missed.
We cover the United States, United Kingdom, European Union, Middle East, India and Asia Pacific. If a story only matters in one market, we say so rather than dressing it up as global news.
How often it goes out
Once a week. We do not send daily alerts, and we do not send a second email to tell you about the first one. If something genuinely cannot wait for the next issue, we will send a short one off note, and that is rare.
Who it is for
Law firm partners and associates, business development and knowledge teams, in-house and general counsel, legal operations leaders, people building and buying legal technology, and students and academics who want to follow the profession as it is rather than as it is taught.
You do not need to be any of those things to read it. It is free.
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Questions
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