Shocking Publishing

Sean Hocking

Head of News – Co-Founder

Sean has worked in the legal publishing industry for 25 years

In the late 80’s and early 90’s he worked for Law Book Company & Point of Law In Sydney. On moving to London he worked for Legalease UK ( the creator of the Legal 500 series, the law awards concept & Legal Business magazine) as their international print media sales director.

On returning to Australia in 1998 Sean created Australia’s first independent online legal news website for legal information professionals , Excata.com. This platform was subsequently sold to Lexis Nexis and Sean was hired to manage the Lexis Nexis’ then new online team for legal media and awards. On leaving the company in late 2001 he subsequently launched the publication Law Librarians News and the website Practicesource.com

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