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Number of Irwin Mitchell partners promoted nearly doubles compared to last year

      

TLT has boosted its UK corporate and commercial offering with the appointment of a five-strong team from now defunct Manchester-based law firm Millbank…

      

For many in the legal profession, blogging remains something of an alien concept, an attitude encapsulated by media lawyer David Allen Green last week when recalling the reaction of a partner to his suggestion that more lawyers should blog: "Some of us have client work, dear boy." Green, better known perhaps as the blogger Jack of Kent and legal commentator for the New Statesman, was speaking at a debate hosted last Thursday (17 November) by 1 Crown Office Row, which took an informal look at law blogging.

      

Around the time of Alex Aldridge's blogging feature and Sofia Lind's complementary article on lawyers and social media in October last year, a worrying addiction to Twitter had begun to develop in Legal Week's sumptuous Soho offices. Much time spent 'researching' on the site helped us to uncover a fast-growing legal community among Twitter's burgeoning membership. The next step in December was for Legal Week to start regularly hosting blogs from outside contributors on the Legal Village section of our website.

      

The question of what clients want from their external legal advisers and how law firms meet this demand may well be nothing new, but two recent examples suggest that this is an area where there is still a significant lack of communication.