General Editor: Jeremy Fleming
Publication: 1st Quarter 2009 There are directories of law firms that advertisers hope that general counsel read. Now comes the directory that you know general counsel in Europe will read: their own. Due for publication in the first quarter of 2009, the Guide to Corporate Counsel in Europe will include more than 10,000 names, addresses and email contacts for general counsel in Europe. The world of the in-house lawyer, for so long seen as the second string of legal practice, is about to take on a new, important and influential life of its own. The format of the book will enable readers to identify in house lawyers according to their country and their companies via separate indices.
The countries participating in the first edition are Germany, France, Holland, Luxembourg, Estonia and Latvia, with the UK and Belgium due to join before publication.
The directory will comprise the names and address of over 10,000 company lawyers serving large and small enterprises across the continent. Other countries are expected to join the directory in subsequent editions as more national ECLA organisations join the movement towards ‘transparency’ in their membership and become the European equivalent of similar powerful US organisations for outside corporate counsel.
The European Lawyer, an award winning legal publishing company with a monthly journal now eight years old and a range of comparative law text books, is proud to have been selected by ECLA to pioneer this first edition of the ECLA membership directory. It will be similar in size and format to the European Lawyer’s Brussels Yearbook, first published in 2007.
ECLA for its part, having published its monthly newsletter in the pages of The European Lawyer for the past five years, believes the European Lawyer should continue its partnership in this pioneering venture. The soft-cover A5-sized directory will comprise some 250-350 pages and contain editorial by ECLA officers as well as legal updates written by law firms on many aspects of pan-European law. There will also be opportunities for law firms and suppliers of literature and technology to the profession to buy advertising space.
Law firms will be able to advertise on a country-by-country basis. In countries not publishing their individual membership, details of ECLA officers will be made available. ECLA has more than 40,000 members in Europe. The new directory will be distributed free of charge to all countries’ ECLA offices for distribution, allowing for additional readership regardless of whether the local branch has committed to the ‘transparency’ scheme.
Contacts
Editor: Jeremy Fleming, the European Lawyer, Brussels Tel: 0032 2 644 0823.
Managing Director: David Lennon, the European Lawyer, London. Tel: (+44) 020 7496 3656
