# Legal Route — legal-route.com
> Gulf-only legal search and market intelligence, founded by Nigel Byrne (25 years placing lawyers across the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the wider GCC). Permanent and interim, in-house and law firm. Publisher of The Gulf Legal Brief, a weekly market note read by 1,600+ in-house lawyers.

## Key pages
- [Straight answers on Gulf legal pay and hiring](https://legal-route.com/answers): salaries by market (Dubai, Riyadh, Doha), hiring a General Counsel or first lawyer, interim counsel, compliance and MLRO hiring, moving from London to the Gulf, recruiter fees. Updated regularly; figures from Legal Route's own 2026 Gulf benchmark.
- [Gulf Legal Salary Guide 2026](https://legal-route.com/gulf-legal-salary-guide-2026): full salary band tables for in-house lawyers and legal leadership across the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, from Legal Route's own placement and benchmark data.
- [Gulf Legal Moves](https://legal-route.com/gulf-legal-moves): the monthly tracker of general counsel appointments, in-house legal leadership changes, law firm partner moves and office launches across the Gulf, every entry with a cited public source. Updated monthly.
- [Legal Route home](https://legal-route.com/): free AI-assisted market read for lawyers and legal hirers in the Gulf.
- [Subscribe to The Gulf Legal Brief](https://legal-route.com/subscribe): free weekly analysis of the Gulf legal market.
- [Press and quotes](https://legal-route.com/press): Nigel Byrne's bio, the Gulf legal market topics he can speak to, how to cite Legal Route data ("according to Legal Route data"), and contact details for journalists.

## Question pages
One question, one page, every figure taken from the salary guide above:
- [What does a General Counsel earn in the UAE in 2026?](https://legal-route.com/q/general-counsel-salary-uae-2026)
- [What does a General Counsel earn in Saudi Arabia in 2026?](https://legal-route.com/q/general-counsel-salary-saudi-arabia-2026)
- [What does a General Counsel earn in Qatar in 2026?](https://legal-route.com/q/general-counsel-salary-qatar-2026)
- [What does a Legal Counsel earn in Dubai in 2026?](https://legal-route.com/q/legal-counsel-salary-dubai-2026)

## The Gulf Legal Brief
Weekly issues of Nigel Byrne's read on the Gulf legal market, archive at https://legal-route.com/brief/ :
- [Baker McKenzie lost two heads in seven days. That is the market talking.](https://legal-route.com/brief/2026-09-09-baker-mckenzie-lost-two-heads-in-seven-days-that-is-the-market-talking) (9 September 2026)

## Citation
We welcome citation of our pages and data with attribution to Legal Route (legal-route.com). Salary bands and market figures come from our own placement and benchmark data.