Leor is Chief Commercial Officer at Kingsley Napley and a Management Board and Senior Leadership Team member. Leor leads on driving revenue growth and profitability. He manages Brand, Business Development, Business Planning, Commercial, Communications, Digital, and Marketing functions, and previously also led Knowledge & Information. Prior to his current role, Leor was Chief Business Development & Marketing Officer at KN.
Leor is a well known Chief Marketing Officer in professional services. He has spent nearly 25 years in legal, accounting, and consulting firms, including in international Marketing, Communications and Business Development Director roles at Deloitte, Ernst & Young (EY), and FTI Consulting, and as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) of law firm funder Augusta. Earlier in his career, Leor acted as Chief Of Staff for the Chief Executive of a FTSE 100 multinational, having previously worked as a fee earner, qualifying in a Big 4 firm.
His teams have won numerous awards, including Marketing / BD (Business Development) Team Of The Year, PR Of The Year, and Website Of The Year at the Brand Management & Reputation Awards and have been shortlisted for Marketing Communication Strategy at the Modern Law Awards, and Best Marketing Campaign by the Managing Partners' Forum (MPF).
Leor sits as a non-executive on the Advisory Boards of the University of London Queen Mary Business School and industry body MPF. He is Chair of the MPF Marketing & Strategy Group (a networking group for Chief Marketing Officers in professional service firms), the Metropolitan Police Canons Ward Panel, Co-Chair of the Public Relations & Communications Association Legal Group and previously chaired the PM Forum Annual Conference (for marketing leaders in professional service firms).
He is a regular speaker, moderator and chair at marketing and business development conferences, webinars, and podcasts, including for law firm organisations such as the International Bar Association, The Lawyer, Briefing, London Law Expo, and PM Forum, and publishers such as Marketing Week, PR Week, CMO Club, Rockstar CMO, Ortus CMO Chats, and B2B Marketing.
Leor is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, a graduate of both the Oxford Saïd and Cambridge Judge professional service firm leadership programmes, and both the Cranfield and London Business School marketing director/strategy programmes. He holds a chartered financial analysis qualification from CISI, a master's in management from Loughborough and a bachelor's in politics from Warwick.
AWARDS & DIRECTORIES
- Shortlisted for Brand Of The Year - Brand & Marketing Awards, 2025
- Most-Read Articles Of The Year 2024 - Law360 UK, December 2024
- 15 Most Influential Marketers In Professional Services - B2B Marketing - Trendsetters and Trailblazers, April 2023
- PR Of The Year - Brand Management & Reputation Awards, June 2023
- Website Of The Year - Brand Management & Reputation Awards, June 2022
- Marketing/BD/PR Team Of The Year - Brand Management & Reputation Awards, June 2021
- Shortlisted for Best Marketing Campaign - Managing Partner's Forum, June 2022
- Shortlisted for Marketing Strategy Of The Year - Modern Law Awards, March 2021
PRESS HIGHLIGHTS
- B2B marketing leaders at this year's Festival of Marketing - Marketing Week, September 2025
- Marketing leaders on bridging the skills gap – Marketing Week, March 2025
- Beyond the letter of the law: meeting clients’ new needs – Briefing Magazine, March 2025
- Data, financial literacy, AI: The skills that matter to B2B marketers in 2024 – Marketing Week, September 2024
- Why Becoming A Non-Exec Helps Marketers ‘Join The Dots’ - Marketing Week, July 2024
- Business Events Are Back But Are They Inclusive - Raconteur, June 2023
- Annual Conference Report - PM Forum – PM Magazine, September 2022
- Business Development and Marketing Leaders – Briefing Magazine, July 2022
- Warwick Connections - Kingsley Napley – Warwick Alumni Magazine, February 2022
- A Culture Of Trust – PM Magazine, February 2022
- Keeping The Customer Happy – Law Society Managing For Success Magazine, July 2021
- Kingsley Napley Unveils New Brand – Transform Magazine, July 2021
- How To: Keep Clients Close – Law Society Gazette, May 2021
- Who's In Your 'Personal Boardroom' – Chartered Institute of Marketing, May 2021
- Kingsley Napley Appoints Leor Franks - Communicate Magazine, January 2021
Publications
- Why A Robust Brand Is Increasingly Important For Law Firms - published in Law360, August 2024
- A few DROPSE of secret sauce to boost your web traffic - published in PM Magazine, July 2023
- How to Develop a Content Strategy: The ‘Content Tree’ - published in Expert Circle, February 2023
- The 'Dropout Problem' - published in Legal Marketing World, December 2022
- Cutting Through Virtual Noise – published in New Law Journal, July 2021
- Halos, Heroes, and Headlines – published in Briefing Magazine, June 2021
- Strategy Before Structure – published in Legal Business World, June 2021
- Focus On Clients To Cut Through – published in The Law Society Gazette, February 2021
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES AND MEMBERSHIPS
- Managing Partners' Forum (MPF)
- Public Relations and Communications Association (PRCA)
- Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM)
Speaking engagements
- Marketing Week 'The Lowdown' - Panellist on "Marketing leaders on bridging the skills gap", March 2025
- Marketing the Advisers Forum - Panellist on "Mentoring and Coaching for Marketing and BD Leaders", January 2025
- PRCA Legal Group - Chairing "How SRA investigations work", November 2024
- The Lawyer - Moderating "Futureproofing your leadership skills", September 2024
- PM Forum – Chairing “PM Forum Annual Conference”, September 2024
- PRCA Legal Group - Panellist at "How does brand affect your bottom line", June 2024
- Managing Partners' Forum - Panellist on "Retuning your firm", May 2024
- The Lawyer - Moderating "Walking the walk and talking the talk of all things ESG", September 2023
- PM Forum – Chairing “PM Forum Annual Conference”, September 2023
- HotTopics – Panellist on "Journey from CMO to NED", May 2023
- Briefing Magazine - Speaking at "Challenges in law firm BD & marketing", September 2022
- PM Forum – Chairing “PM Forum Annual Conference”, September 2022
- PR Week – Panellist on "Rethinking your measurement strategy", May 2022
- Campaign Magazine - Panellist on "Tech and talent in marketing", September 2021
- The Lawyer - Panellist on "Team management - talent today vs the talent of tomorrow", June 2021
