Legal Week 2.0

Legal Week (the magazine) gets a makeover this week, largely to reflect the amount of reader-generated copy that legalweek.com now attracts.

There will be just as much original copy as before in the print edition but the new look will give more prominence to readers’ comments on popular sections like Career Clinic, Talkback and the collaborative Legal Week Wiki database.

As such, content from sections like Talkback and the Wiki will often be spliced into an expanded news section. For example, today’s issue features extracts from a debate on the ethics and opportunities of Anglo/Indian legal liberalisation. If you find those comments interesting, you can see more on the full Talkback thread here. Likewise, page 10 features the Legal Week Wiki profile of an obscure City outfit called Slaughter and May.

The updated design will also give more space to Legal Village, our panel of senior figures who contribute to our Community & Blogs section. Today’s issue features the recent blog on measuring law firm performance by Milbank Tweed’s European head, Phillip Fletcher, while Law Society president Fiona Woolf’s latest contribution can been seen online here.

It’s probably also an opportune moment to thank readers for posting comments to legalweek.com, as you have done nearly 1,400 times since the site’s relaunch in January.

Since we introduced interactive features to our online version last year, we have found that tapping into readers’ input adds another dimension to our coverage, not least because it allows us to draw on a much wider range of voices than the senior figures that journalists usually talk to.

It’s also really useful to get fresh questions from readers for Career Clinic – we do try to get queries up pretty quickly. Today’s question is on how aspiring lawyers should use their gap year.

If you’ve got an issue that you want some advice on just email us in confidence at community@legalweek.com.

alex.novarese@legalweek.com