CEELMDirect

Showcase Your Partner and Firm Profiles

About CEELMDirect

CEE Legal Matters is excited to announce the formal launch of the online CEELMDirect platform— a brand new legal directory for lawyers and law firms in the region.

More than five years in the making, CEELMDirect represents an unprecedented advance in legal directories – with profiles automatically updated with relevant content from the CEE Legal Matters website that make it absolutely critical for law firm business development/marketing, client pitches, opposition research, and legal recruiting.

CEELMDirect contains profiles from every law firm and every law firm partner that has been named in the past eight years on the CEE Legal Matters website, and new profiles can be easily created for those who have not yet appeared on it. Users need only “claim” their profiles to edit them, and those who upgrade to Premium status – only EUR 100 a year for partners and EUR 200 a year for law firms – can add valuable contact details, photos, searchable practice listings, and valuable biographical information.

In addition, of course, because of how the CEELMDirect and CEE Legal Matters websites are connected, users can easily expand the content of their profiles by contacting CEE Legal Matters to arrange for publishing or interview opportunities.

The creation of CEELMDirect has been a goal from the very beginning of CEE Legal Matters’ existence, and, after eight long years, we could not be more excited about its launch. More information about how CEELMDirect can be found on the platform’s FAQ page, here.

THE REACH

CEELMDirect is powered by CEE Legal Matters – the leading publication about, and go-to-source of market intelligence for lawyers in Central and Eastern Europe.

4,509 magazine subscribers + 6,852 electronic subscribers​

34,955 unique website visitors per day

Each issue is read online 2,938 per month

38,164 post impressions per month

47,630 post impressions per month

24,500 Tweet impressions per month

examples of featured firms

Highlight your firm alongside the leading firms already featuring their profiles on CEELMDirect.

FAQ

CEELMDirect contains profiles of all law firms and partners whose names have appeared in stories on the CEE Legal Matters website. Users wanting to update profiles with important information can simply click on the “claim profile” button on the appropriate page to be walked through the process.

Partners or law firms whose names are not yet on the website should click on the “create profile” button.

Unfortunately, CEELMDirect does not contain profiles of in-house counsel or private practitioners at the Of Counsel, Associate, Trainee, or any other non-Partner level.

Claiming your profile allows you to edit the information on the profile and add a country tag and a bio photo.

Upgrading to Premium status allows you to, contact details, a bio, a hero image, your practice areas and other useful information. It allows users to maximize the value of the CEELMDirect profile, making it particularly valuable for business development and marketing purposes.

CEELMDirect is free to use, and there is no charge to claim or create a basic profile. Upgrading to Premium status costs EUR 200 per partner and EUR 500 per law firm. 

Certainly. Just have your marketing manager claim your profile – and add a note explaining his or her relationship to you so we can make sure that only duly authorized individuals are able to make changes.

All articles and interviews on profiles come directly from the CEE Legal Matters website. As a result, if you’d like to add content to your profile, you should contact CEE Legal Matters at press@ceelm.com to learn more about applicable commercial terms for interviews or thought leadership. Of course, CEE Legal Matters always publishes news about lateral hires and promotions (at the partner level) and completed client matters (where clients are identified by name) free of charge; press releases on those subjects should also be sent to press@ceelm.com.

The practice area filters are only effective for Premium  profiles. Want to make use of this valuable tool? Upgrade to Premium status!

CEELMDirect is dynamically connected to the CEE Legal Matters website, allowing the content from that website to appear immediately on the CEELMDirect platform. It is unfortunately not possible to include content from other sources at this time.

You can certainly include references to other firms in the description field, but there is no separate option for linking to websites other than your own.

Of course! If you wish to have your profile deleted, just send a request to admin@ceelmdirect.com. It will be processed quickly

Thought Leaders are law firms with special publishing rights on the CEE Legal Matters website. For more information about how to become a Thought Leader, contact our Managing Editor at radu.cotarcea@ceelm.com

We’d love to hear from you! Write us at admin@ceelmdirect.com.

Why Should I Claim My Profile?

Basic Claimed Profile (FREE):

  • Partner/Firm Name
  • Partner’s Firm on the side (or, in the case of firm profiles, the firm’s partners on the side)
  • Partner’s/Firm’s Country (so that they can also be indexed in the filter): https://ceelmdirect.com/filter
  • All articles written by the Firm or Partner for CEE Legal Matters
  • All deals covered by CEE Legal Matters in which the Firm or Partner was involved
  • All the articles written by CEE Legal Matters that include input or mention the Firm or Partner
  • A good example of a basic profile to give you a feel is this Partner one

Premium Profile (EUR 200/partner and EUR 500/firm per year):

  • All elements under a basic profile +
  • Partner’s/Firm’s Practice Areas as well (so that they can also be indexed in the filter): https://ceelmdirect.com/filter
  • A Description/Bio
  • Contact information
  • The ability to brand your profile with a logo/profile picture and header/hero image
  • Premium profiles are randomly featured on the homepage at the top under “Featured Firms” or “Featured Partners”
  • The homepage’s “Latest from Featured Firms” is populated strictly with stories about or articles by Partners or Firms that have a premium account
  • A good example of a premium profile to give you a feel is this Firm one