About Law Week

What we cover

• Firms - Law firms, strategy, finances and the market for legal services.
• Deals & M&A - Mandates, mergers, transactions and the lawyers behind them.
• People & Moves - Partner hires, appointments, promotions and departures.
• Regulation - The SRA, FCA, CMA and the rules that govern the profession.
• Courts - Judgments, litigation, disputes and the cases that matter.
• Legal Tech - AI, software and the technology reshaping legal work.
• Opinion - Analysis and comment on the business of law.

How we work

We work from primary sources: firm announcements, court judgments, regulatory filings, official documentation and the practitioners involved. Where we learn of a story from a press release or another publication, we treat it as a lead and go back to the original source before we write.

We do not republish press releases as articles, and we do not rewrite other publications' reporting. Where a claim rests on a judgment, a filing or a dataset, we link to it.

Some of our reporting is produced with the assistance of AI tools. Automated checks run first, and since 24 October 2026 the editor, Sam Allcock, reads every story before it is published, with three exceptions: stories based on press releases submitted to Free Press Releases, our sister press release service, which publish after automated checks against the release; since 27 October 2026, stories written only from an official source (a tribunal judgment, a regulator's decision, a Gazette notice or official statistics), which publish after automated checks against that source, at most three a day (both of those are marked as such on the page); and, since 2 November 2026, news about a firm or organisation (an announcement, appointment, deal, results, office opening, or a regulatory or court decision) that passes every automated check and carries a real photograph supplied by that firm or organisation, which publishes after those checks, at most six a day. News reporting runs under the name of the publication. Contributed articles carry the author's own byline and an author page, because the point of writing one is that it is yours.

Our approach

Law Week is a new title, launching in 2026. We are building a record of the business of law as it happens: the deals, the appointments, the regulatory shifts and the judgments that shape how firms and their clients operate.

We would rather publish fewer stories and get them right than chase every wire item.

Who commissions

Eleanor Marsh is our commissioning editor. She handles contributed articles from practitioners: what we are looking for, what we will not run, and the editing before it goes up. She can be reached at eleanor@law-week.com.

If you are a solicitor or a partner who would like to write for us, she is the person to ask. We do not charge for a contributed article and we do not accept payment to publish one.

Corrections

If we have got something wrong, tell us at editor@law-week.com. We will correct it, and the article will say that it has been corrected and when. Our editorial standards set out how we handle this.

Contact

Full details, including what to send us, are on our contact page. Press officers should start there.

Publisher

Law Week

London, United Kingdom