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"UK legal industry influencers" defines the top five most influential people within our nations legal industry for 2014-2015 according combined statistics from social media channels Twitter LinkedIn & Facebook summarised by KLOUT & Peer Index. It does not automatically follow that the top 5 law influencers have the highest number of followers within the industry.
About the UK's Top 5 Legal Industry Influencers.
(Listed in order of industry peer social influence)
Sean Smith. {177000 followers}. The former CEO of Mackesys Law heads up the UK legal industries most influential list. Sean Smith's social media followers have been validated as being 76% active giving him over 120000 genuine followers in total. Amongst those who follow the legal services millionaire include media channels and a few international showbiz celebrities - in addition to over 24000 lawyers globally. In 2014 Sean Smith was named by Twitter & SocialTalent as being the second most influential recruiter in the World. His KLOUT score is 59 double the UK average. Smith first made the headlines five years ago when his relationship with former rugby captain Gareth Thomas became public knowledge. Since then his controversial ideas as to the future of legal aid have infuriated the Criminal Bar Association yet at the same time made him a personal ally of the Lord Chancellor.
Mark Lewis. {58000 followers}. Infamous & highly successful media law libel and privacy lawyer with Taylor Hampton Solicitors in London. Think All the President’s Men except instead of a newspaper uncovering the dirty tricks of politicians and lawyers you’d have a lawyer helping uncover the dirty tricks of certain newspapers.
Martin Callan{37000 followers} Known as the "legal professionals professional" Martin Callan is head of Consula.co.uk a successful business consultancy firm "for business for consumers & for law practices" in the UK. With combined social media followers of nearly 40000 comprising of international law firms and other global social media influencers Martin Callans' social peer reach together with his professional expertise makes him a very powerful ally to have in the current UK legal industry economic downturn.
Joshua Rozenberg {27000 followers} is Britain's best-known commentator on the law. In 2012 he was included by The Times in its independently-judged list of the UK's 100 most influential lawyers the only journalist to feature in the Times Law 100.
Clive S. Smith {20000 followers} The British lawyer Clive Stafford Smith 54 who studied at the University of North Carolina has represented more than 300 prisoners facing the death penalty in the United States and secured the release of 65 prisoners from Guantánamo Bay. He is the director of the charity Reprieve which he founded in 1999 and was awarded an OBE for humanitarian services in 2000.
Contact Information:
Isocial legal media publications.
Toronto. Canada
email: pr@isocial.ca
URL links:
http://seansmith.net
http://twitter.com/marklewislawyer
http://twitter.com/martincallan
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