About

Name: Michael (the)
Position: Founder and Editor in Chief

Background:

By day he works in-house playing at being a lawyer in the telecoms industry.  He routinely does battle in the regulatory arena, advises on most aspects of telecoms and technology law, all kinds of commercial work, dabbles in litigation, and occasionally rather glamorous corporate work.

By night - when the magic happens - he’s a legal blogging extraordinaire.  

The Michael was widely hailed as a  ‘blogging visionary’ though nobody will admit to saying that now.  After a burst of inspiration in February 2007, he set up Law Actually as an undergrad  from the computer lab at the law school he attended - and the rest is history.

Modest to a fault, he’s described himself as ‘an ideas guy’, his only drawback being that few of those ideas turn out to be good.  

Under his expert leadership, Law Actually has been driven to the brink and back again and, with no non-exec directors to keep him in check, the next brush with blogging disaster might be right around the next corner.  

Prone to stress, panic attacks and nervous exhaustion, the Michael’s renowned for blogging from the seat of his pants.  That’s where most of the content comes from, too.  

Detractors claim he’s more blagger than blogger, but you really shouldn’t listen to that.

Enjoys: liquid lunches and personal injury claims.
Hates: Abuse of reflexive pronouns, blog spammers, open plan offices, people who use twitter to ‘broaden their horizons’ and the phrase ‘due diligence’. 

Sound Bites:

"My door is always open (unless it's shut - in which case make an appointment)".

"Abbreviating it makes it no less pernicious".

"As a blogger, she's dead from the neck up".
"I'm a company lawyer trapped in the body of a telecoms lawyer." 

Want to contact him?

He’s an approachable, amiable kind of chap (on a good day) ... you can contact him by emailing: michael@lawactually.co.uk