We’ve got a lot of experience working with publications focusing on legal news and insights. We even have a specialist legal PR team.
This expertise is crucial, because legal matters are constantly evolving. New laws, landmark court cases and critical legal analysis emerge every day. Understanding and being able to participate in the conversation around these developments effectively is vital for businesses and legal firms. Our media relations team is constantly on the lookout for stories, trends and new angles that legal journalists might be interested in.
With that in mind, here’s our rundown of the UK’s top legal publications as well as some tips on how to work with them and how to engage with their most prominent journalists.
The Lawyer
The Lawyer is an online publication covering all the breaking news, sharing commentary and data on the global legal sector. Something worth remembering is that team members there consider themselves to be business journalists who cover the legal sector — they’re interested in how law firms run themselves, how they deal with their people and how they approach ethical obligations, just as much as they’re interested in moves, mergers and specific legal cases.
If you have an interesting data story, it’s worth reaching out to Katy Dowell, editor of Horizon, The Lawyer’s daily data-rich insight newsletter. However, if you’re based outside London, you want to speak to regional editor & sustainability lead, Jess Boak, who concentrates on firms in the northern regions, particularly Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle, or deputy editor, Richard Simmons.
The Law Society Gazette
The Law Society Gazette is a digital magazine by the Law Society of England and Wales. It’s an excellent place to find up-to-the-minute national and international news, opinion, features and in-depth articles — including news about jobs and appointments.
If you have news to share, try contacting news editor, Michael Cross. If you have an opinion piece, get in touch with features editor, Eduardo Reyes.
Legal Business
As the market-leading ‘glossy’ monthly magazine for the UK and global legal market, Legal Business covers key issues facing commercial law firms — from management to mergers and strategy to speculation. If you’ve got exciting firm news to share, we recommend contacting reporters, Anna Huntley or Tom Cox, while Elisha Juttla may be interested in your city stories.
If you have broader news to share, you can also reach the full newsdesk team at lbdigital@legalbusiness.co.uk, and the team will get back to you (if your story is interesting enough).
Lawyer Monthly
This multi-platform publication connects legal news with over 400,000 readers each month. With its balanced mix of global insight, special features and reports and analysis, it speaks directly to lawyers, general counsels, barristers and law students — in both established and emerging markets.
Lawyer Monthly seeks contributions from respected industry leaders, analysts and commentators to give quality articles for its readers.
Try editor, Mark Palmer, or editorial assistant, Courtney Evans, to discuss your news, comment and interview nominations.
Legal Practice Management
Legal Practice Management is a monthly online magazine and blog specifically for law firm managers in large SME firms based in the UK and Ireland. It is the only publication focused exclusively on practice management and operations in this sector.
Editor, Reem Khurshid, is proactive and energetic and is interested in discussing timely and authoritative strategy shaping news and peer insight, which is delivered across digital, print and virtual platforms, as well as live events.
It’s worth bearing in mind that Reem also edits Briefing, a monthly digital magazine that delivers thought leadership content to the legal business services community.
The Times Law
The Times Law is a dedicated legal section in The Times newspaper – covering legal news, interesting court cases, and expert analysis of critical legal issues. We know from our conversations with highly-respected legal editor, Jonathan Ames, that, while he loves a bit of law firm scandal, he’s also looking for hard-hitting news and unique insights from top legal professionals.
Jonathan also edits The Brief, a weekly email news bulletin that gives a roundup of the biggest stories in law and a taster of the features in the weekly law pages in the ‘paper. It’s not only intended for lawyers but also aimed at the wider legal profession. The Brief was relaunched in February this year with Jonathan seeking more reader engagement, so the redesigned newsletter will feature subscribers’ comments about its coverage every week.
If you’ve got a legal story or insight you’re eager to share, knowing the right people at these publications makes all the difference.
A legal PR agency can help scour the trade and national press, to help legal professionals and law firms build their reputations and share their insights with the right audience. If you need help navigating the legal media landscape, we’re here to get you noticed.
Contact us to discuss your needs and see how we can help you out.
Written and updated by David Gatehouse, Media Relations Consultant at Definition, on 17/06/2025.