This issue of Legal Week marks our fifth anniversary. To celebrate this event, we have – in line with the trusted adage that you are only as good as your last issue – focused our energy on the here and now, in the shape of another strong edition, rather than taking too much of a trip down memory lane.

As ever, the judgement as to whether or not we have been successful will be made by the readers. But we are confident that our mix of news, analysis and comment is hitting the right buttons.

After all, when we launched on 21 January, 1999, there were some who did not believe there was room in the legal market for a weekly title that, for the first time, was exclusively devoted to business lawyers. We have proved them wrong, becoming, on the way, the first and only legal magazine to win the PPA business magazine of the year award.