The first 60 days of 2019 have been an amazing time for The Texas Lawbook team.
From achieving a record number of subscribers and launching new projects with the Houston and Dallas-Fort Worth chapters of the Association of Corporate Counsel to witnessing the marriage of one of our teammates, The Texas Lawbook has a great deal to celebrate.
The Texas Lawbook is launching a quarterly e-newsletter called The Texas Lawbook Insider. This is a free publication that The Lawbook team is producing for law firm managing partners, practice group leaders, general counsel, business development professionals and communication/PR experts.
The Texas Lawbook Insider will provide insider details about the inner workings and projects of The Lawbook team and will offer behind-the-scenes descriptions on how specific stories came together. Each quarterly publication will update you on our partnerships with ACC Houston and ACC DFW, upcoming CLE events, sponsorship opportunities and a profile or Q&A with members of The Lawbook team.
For example:
- The Texas Lawbook is pleased to announce that we reached and surpassed 11,000 paid subscribers a few weeks ago. More than 2,470 of our subscribers are corporate in-house counsel. The Texas Lawbook is by far the most read online newspaper covering business law and business lawyers in Texas. No other legal publication comes close to having the reach or influence of The Texas Lawbook in Texas.
- The Texas Lawbook has editorial/content partnerships with the Houston Chronicle and the Dallas Business Journal. Both publications now rely on The Lawbook to handle all of their coverage of business law and business lawyers in Texas. In 2018, the Houston Chronicle published 71 Texas Lawbook articles in its Business Section. The Dallas Business Journal published more than 80 Lawbook articles in its print and online publication. These partnerships allow The Texas Lawbook and the lawyers we quote in our articles to reach and influence a much larger business community.
- The Lawbook and the Association of Corporate Counsel’s Houston Chapter are jointly hosting the 2019 Houston Corporate Counsel Awards in April at the Four Seasons. The Lawbook is accepting nominations until March 1. The Lawbook also has a few remaining sponsorship opportunities available. As part of the sponsorships, law firms and legal service providers get to develop personal relationships with ACC Houston leaders and the corporate in-house counsel who are judging the awards. Please contact Texas Lawbook Publisher Brooks Igo for more information.
- The DFW Chapter of the ACC and The Lawbook co-hosted the 2018 Outstanding Corporate Counsel Awards for Dallas-Fort Worth in January. More than 350 of the leading general counsel and business lawyers in North Texas attended the event at the President George W. Bush Institute. ACC-DFW President Scott Young, who is managing counsel at Toyota, called it “a smashing success.”
The Lawbook has several unique CLEs on the schedule for the next few months. In March, we will co-host a program with the SMU Cox Business School called “The New NAFTA – What Businesses & Lawyers Need to Know.” We also have CLEs focusing on cybersecurity and data privacy and trends in M&A dealmaking in Texas coming in April and May. More details on those to come.
Finally, The Texas Lawbook team gathered last Saturday in Dripping Springs, Texas, to celebrate the wedding of litigation beat reporter Natalie Posgate. Natalie joined The Lawbook in June 2012 and she has been a critical element of our publication’s success. Despite my natural aversion to weddings and marriage in general, I can attest that it was a wonderful ceremony and Natalie was a stunningly beautiful bride.
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As always, I invite Texas Lawbook readers to contact me by email anytime or by phone if you have breaking news. And I thank you for supporting The Lawbook team.