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TakeLegalAdvice.com was founded in 2006 to bring transparency to the legal market, and allowing consumers and businesses to
make truly informed choices on which law firm to choose to handle their legal needs.
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Mark Wyatt - CEO
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Mark is one of Europe's most experienced legal information publishers. Prior to launching TakeLegalAdvice.com™, Mark was the publisher of The Lawyer for many years where he launched the first awards for lawyers – The Lawyer Awards. He also launched thelawyer.com and one of the first legal jobs search engines. He was responsible for the launch of senior in-house lawyer networking event – The Lawyer summit.
In 1997 Mark founded multi-award winning Legal Week (business magazine of the year 2001/2) and legalweek.com as well as the first awards purely for in-house lawyers and The Legal Week awards. He has a strong record in providing value added information for client including launching the publications Legal Benchmarker and Legal Director as well as GPM research which examined client care and attitudes.
Mark also launched the Legal IT Forum - Gleneagles and legal IT magazine as well as The Corporate Counsel Forum, legal IT awards, Private client Forum, (EIBTM event of the year) and many other forums. Mark launched the first legal fees forum, Who's Who In-house and formerly ran Lawtel now part of Thompson Reuters. He was a director of Centaur, a large now publically quoted publisher , was CEO of Global Professional Media and launched Procurelaw.com - The legal tendering platform.
Mark is publisher of European Lawyer magazine and European Lawyer reference series. He has won the PPA achievement award, the IPA Innovation award, interactive media awards and was a semi-finalist in the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year awards. Mark is CEO of the Futurelex group, of which TakeLegalAdvice.com™ is a member.
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Mary Heaney - Director
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Mary is one of the world's most experienced legal commentators, having founded and edited some of the leading legal titles, events and websites globally. As Editor of The Lawyer magazine, founding editor of the multi-award winning Legal Week and editor-in-chief of the award-winning European Lawyer magazine, she has been at the forefront of legal developments across the world. She was launch editor of the first legal awards, the first legal website and the first legal newsfeed in Europe. Her knowledge of lawyers and legal services is unsurpassed. A thought-leader in legal technology and how it can deliver legal services, she founded and edited Legal IT and created the Gleneagles Legal Forum. With corporate counsel in mind, she was also founding editor of Benchmarker and Legal Director, the Who's Who of In-house Counsel and the first Law Firm Fees Forum.
As Chair of the first Legal Awards for lawyers, she has been the Chairwoman of many legal awards judging panels. Mary is also editorial director of more than 20 international comparative legal books written by the world’s legal experts.
Mary was a director of GPM and is now a director of Futurelex. She heads the law firm selection panel for ProcureLaw™
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Ben Martin - Marketing & Customer Services Director
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Ben has over 30 years business to business marketing, publishing and customer service operations experience with organizations such as United Business Media, the Daily Mail Group, Hodder Headline, Legal Week and more recently Incisive Media. Ben has worked in the legal industry for nearly a decade and is responsible for the marketing and customer service teams at Futurelex.
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Sivakanthan Elanganathapillai - Chief Technology Officer
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Siva has extensive experience in developing legal software applications, including case management systems, and has worked with leading City and international law firms for many years.
Siva brings huge technology insight to the business and is responsible for the development of the unique Procurelaw interface and the search engine behind the platform. As CTO he is also responsible for the evolution of procurelaw and all technological developments within the business including new product development. Prior to joining Procurelaw Siva also had extensive experience in the financial services marketplace and built the award winning Takelegaladvice.com technology platform. Siva chairs the Futurelex technology board.
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Alex Morrall - Legal Department Director
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Alex has worked with general counsel in the world's largest companies for over a dozen years. Prior to joining Procurelaw, Alex ran PLC Which lawyer? (previously Global Counsel 3000). While at Practical Law he also ran PLC Law Department and PLC events where he launched a number of prestigious and ground breaking initiatives including, The Global Counsellors College and Law Department Forum. He has a reputation as a thought leader and international speaker on the delivery of legal services. Alex is responsible for general counsel relationships and for developing the functionality of Procurelaw.
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Kyra Morrison - Strategic Partnerships Director
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15+ years international business experience across North America, Europe and Far East including Coats Viyella, and 7 years Foreign Direct Investment to the UK by MNEs.
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Maria Sunderland - Business Development Director
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Business Development Director at The lawyer and Legal Week with extensive experience in legal publishing, research, events and the internet.
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Michele O'Sullivan - Quality Control Director
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A qualified international lawyer, Michele ensures all aspects of the website conform to our stringent quality standards. Previous positions include European Lawyer magazine and Hemscott.
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