Having reached the profession late, law blogging has emerged in recent years to secure real influence. Alex Aldridge assesses how the format has introduced a new range of voices to the legal community

“I always wanted to be a journalist,” says David Allen Green, head of media at boutique TMT law firm Preiskel & Co. As he chats in his office on the corner of Fleet Street and Farringdon Road, an area long since colonised by corporate law firms and financial services companies, he points out St Bride’s Church, known as the journalists’ church because of its historic links with the newspaper industry.