Editors' Blog

Giving clients a chance to talk shop

Posted 13/08/2007 by Alex Novarese

Legalweek.com launches a new feature today aimed at bringing more of the interactivity that is the hallmark of our site to corporate counsel’s door. The new feature, dubbed (with stunning creativity) Corporate Counsel Q&A, will run within the Talkback section on legalweek.com’s homepage.

Corporate Counsel Q&A draws broadly on the model of our popular Career Clinic section, in which readers post in questions in the (usually justified) hope of receiving helpful advice and feedback from their peers.

However, though the new in-house Q&A will consider some issues to do with career matters, it is aimed more broadly at the concerns of company lawyers. As such, it will be less focused on individual career concerns and more on the challenges of managing and running a quality legal team within a company.

Likewise, the hope is that the feature will also provide a forum for technical legal questions, as can be seen in this week’s query about the Companies Act.

We have no idea if it will be popular but then we did Career Clinic on a whim and that has had over 1,500 posts since its launch last year. Likewise, with Legal Week soon to be working more closely with the well-regarded US publication Corporate Counsel thanks to the acquisition by our parent company of American Lawyer Media, we are exploring ways in which can improve our in-house coverage generally.

Initially, we’ll probably update Q&A once a week but we will gauge that slightly on the level of responses. In the meantime, if you have any bright ideas for improving our in-house content, drop either me (alex.novarese@legalweek.com) or our dedicated in-house correspondent Michelle (michelle.madsen@legalweek.com) a line.