Welcome to legalweek.com 2.5

Regular visitors to legalweek.com will have noticed a change to its look and feel. Eighteen months since the ambitious relaunch of legalweek.com as the online meeting place for business lawyers, we have given the site a thorough makeover by finessing its design, introducing new sections and boosting the profile of Legal Week’s jobs board.

A key change is the  of the all-important navigation bar to the top of the site. This has given the site more room to breathe and allowed for a clearly demarcated advertising section, which includes a new job search box that acts as a window into the jobs section.

We have also taken steps to simplify the way people navigate around the site. It is now divided into nine primary sections, each with its own menu of sub-sections, which include several new items such as Law Firm Surveys and Rankings, Dealmaker and Training Contract Q&A. Keep a special look out too for developments in our new Video section. Last month legalweek.com hosted an interview between David Morley, senior partner of Allen & Overy, and Jeremy Hand, the chairman of the British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association, on the Legal Services Act. It generated a huge amount of interest. Over the coming months legalweek.com will be building on the success of this venture to produce a range of web seminars and videos.

As for the homepage, it has been significantly expanded to incorporate many of legalweek.com’s community features. These include the ever-popular Career Clinic, Talkback, and both our blogs - Editors’ Comment and Legal Village. There are also news feeds from two of legalweek.com’s sister sites: law.com and americanlawyer.com.

We’ve had tremendous feedback about legalweek.com since we relaunched it in January 2007. This is backed up both by the degree of participation on the site and a steady and steep increase in the amount of traffic it receives. These latest changes are designed to give the site even more momentum.

Let us know what you think of the changes by emailing us at community@legalweek.com.