I’m Mark Brandon, managing director of Motive Legal Consulting Ltd.

I founded it in 2010 to provide strategic advice, recruitment support and thought leadership for law firms and legal industry suppliers.

In my thirty years in the legal industry, I spent twelve years as a journalist, editor and publisher then eight years as a recruiter in the City of London, placing partners and teams into UK and US law firms.

I’m best known for my work on The Legal 500 (editor), The Lawyer (journalist/columnist), The In-House Lawyer Magazine (Editor) and as series editor of The Insider’s Guides to Legal Services.

At Motive, clients have included a wide range of top US and UK law firms, boutique firms and legal start-ups, recruiters and a range of suppliers to the legal industry.