Legal Desire publishes law firm and legal industry announcements: deals and transactions, lateral hires, partner promotions, practice launches, office openings, rankings and awards, and report releases.
We have covered over 12,000 deals since 2012, and more than 2,000 firms and lawyers have published with us.
How to send an announcement
Email it to anuj@legaldesire.com with the release in the body of the email or attached as a Word document or Google Docs link. Include a contact name in case we need to check a detail.
Put the headline in the subject line, and flag it if it is under embargo or time sensitive. We move time-critical announcements to the front of the queue.
What we need in the release
For a deal
Parties, deal value if disclosable, the firms on each side, the lead partners and their teams, and the closing date. Deal announcements without named counsel are much less useful to our readers and much less likely to be picked up.
For an appointment
Name, incoming role, practice area, office, previous firm and role, start date, and a short quote from the hiring partner or managing partner if you have one.
Turnaround and review
Every submission is reviewed before it goes live. Nothing publishes automatically. We check that the announcement is accurate, that the parties are identifiable, and that anything presented as fact can be verified.
Announcements are usually published within 24 to 48 hours of a confirmed submission. Placement is permanent, indexed by Google News, and shared through our social channels and newsletter.
What it costs
Press release distribution is quoted by email. Send us what you have and we will come back with a price, usually the same working day.
If your firm announces regularly, the Publisher Plan at $5,000 a year covers unlimited deal announcements, unlimited lateral hire and promotion announcements and unlimited articles, which works out considerably cheaper than announcing piece by piece and removes the approval step entirely.
What we will not publish
Announcements we cannot verify, anything defamatory, gambling, adult content and crypto promotion. Commercial announcements are labelled as partner content where our editorial standards require it.