Beyond legal compliance

This article was first published in the Financial Express. India has 119 unicorns. At least eight have faced organised worker campaigns in the last 18 months. Their legal teams likely saw none of them coming. The recent Newslaundry investigation into Urban Company’s treatment of beauty partners has exposed a fundamental challenge facing platform businesses: the […]

Beyond Structure: Why Law Firm Visibility Needs a Seat at the Table

This piece was first published in Bar and Bench. A 10-year-old legal practice that advises venture-backed tech startups recently told us something that stopped us cold: “We kept assuming that our work would speak for itself. Until one of our own retained clients raised a funding round and introduced a new counsel, when we had structured […]

When the Lawyer Becomes the Villain on LinkedIn: A Framework to Avoid Self-Sabotage

Every week on legal LinkedIn, we witness the same tragedy: a competent, well-meaning lawyer publicly processes their client trauma in real time. The post gets likes. The comments offer solidarity. But something else happens too: trust erodes, referrals dry up, and the lawyer unknowingly signals that they might be the kind of professional who throws […]

Should You Write a Whitepaper? Only If You’re Willing to Do It Right

Why Whitepapers Seem Like a Good Idea, But Often Fail A well-written whitepaper can be a powerful trust-building tool especially in professional services like law, consulting, and strategic advisory. But in the rush to “look like a thought leader,” most whitepapers end up being expensive PDF versions of a firm’s website. They sound intellectual. But […]

SEO Isn’t Dead. But It’s No Longer the Smartest First Move for Lawyers

You may have noticed the headlines getting louder: “SEO is dead.” Or, you may have not noticed, and are now asking: “What SEO?”  Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the process of improving your website’s visibility on search engines like Google. The goal is to rank higher in Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs) when someone searches […]

Your Blog Won’t Save You: The SEO Collapse Lawyers Must See Coming

This piece was first published on Bar and Bench The Playbook is broken. For the last 10 years law firm visibility advice has sounded like a broken record: Publish regular blogs and whitepaper PDFs, send newsletters, churn out monthly or quarterly webinars and podcasts – all this full of explainers, case studies and judgment reviews, […]