Firm and practice news, lateral hires, deal announcements and thought leadership, submitted straight to the Legal Desire newsroom. Our editors review every story, publish it on legaldesire.com and send you the live link. Deals go on DealDatabase.co too.
First 5 submissions free for every organisation · Paid track published within 24 hours, weekends included
Three formats, one editor. Write it or paste it, add images, pick a section, send it to the desk.
Lateral hires, partner promotions, office openings, new practice groups, awards, rankings and appointments. Published in Law Firm & In-house Updates with a source link to your site.
Open to agencies, firms, in-house teams and lawyers
M&A, private equity, capital markets, project finance, venture rounds and joint ventures, with the value, parties and advisers laid out as a fact table. Every published deal is also recorded on DealDatabase.co.
Open to agencies, firms, in-house teams and lawyers
Analysis, practice notes and commentary written by practising lawyers. Published under your name with an author bio, headshot and links to your firm or profile.
Open to lawyers, firms and in-house teams
Accounts are approved by hand, so every story on the desk comes from a real firm, agency or legal team.
We send a one-time code. Personal addresses such as Gmail are not accepted.
Tell us whether you are a lawyer, a law firm, an in-house team or an agency, and who you represent.
Our team checks every new account, usually within one working day. You can draft while you wait.
Use the editor to format text, add images and links, and choose the Legal Desire section, or let our desk pick it.
Our editors check facts, style and fit, and publish. Free track in 2-3 days, paid track within 24 hours, seven days a week.
We email you the moment it is live, and every link stays in your dashboard for your client reports.
Firm news and deals start free: every organisation gets 5 free submissions, then the Publisher Plan makes them unlimited.
or $5,000 a year, which saves $400
Links in firm news and deals are published as nofollow. Running a PR, SEO or content agency? See the agency plans.
DealDatabase is Legal Desire's searchable record of law firm deal work: 11,000+ deals since 2018, with 34,000+ lawyers and around 700 law firms mapped to the transactions they advised on. Deal announcements published through the Press Desk are added to it, so your team's work shows up where in-house counsel and business development teams search.
Visit DealDatabase.coA 14-year-old independent legal title with a newsroom built around firm news and deals.
Practising lawyers, in-house counsel, firm leaders and legal marketing teams, concentrated in the US, UK and EU.
Stories are indexed in Google News and Google Search, sit on a domain with 14 years of history, and are structured so AI search tools can read them.
Selected stories are shared on Legal Desire's LinkedIn and can be featured in the Legal Desire Insider newsletter.
Lawyers, law firms, in-house legal teams, and PR, SEO or content agencies. PR agencies submit press releases, lateral moves, firm updates and deal announcements for the firms they represent. SEO and content agencies order articles with do-follow links (see for agencies). Bylined thought-leadership articles are open to lawyers, firms and in-house teams.
It is how we know who you represent. Your organisation is identified by your email domain, and every account is checked by our team before it can submit.
They belong to your organisation, not to each person, so colleagues or agency team members registering from the same domain share them. A submission counts once it is sent to the desk. If we reject it, it does not count. Free submissions go through standard editorial review and are published within 2-3 working days.
On the Publisher Plan, your submission goes to the front of the queue and is published within 24 hours of submission, seven days a week, weekends included.
We may tighten headlines, fix style and remove promotional language so the story reads as news. We will not change facts, figures or quotes. If something needs your input, we send it back with a note rather than guess.
AI-generated or plagiarised text, anything defamatory, hateful or misleading, gambling, adult or crypto promotion, and pure advertising. Publication on the free track is at our editors' discretion.
Yes. Firm news, deals and bylined articles can include links, an author bio and a source link to your organisation's website, and those links are published as nofollow. If you need do-follow links, see articles with do-follow links on the for agencies page. Our editors review every link before publishing.
Request a plan from your dashboard. Our team emails you an invoice with payment details, usually within one working day, and switches the plan on as soon as payment is received. Nothing is charged when you request. Monthly plans can be cancelled any time.
Lawyers and in-house counsel publish under their own author page on legaldesire.com, with photo, bio and a link. Firm news and deals run under the firm's name, and articles under the author you name. Agency releases run under the Legal Desire Press byline, with a Source line naming your client.
