The Lawyer is a legal business information product for law firm leaders, commercial lawyers, barristers and in-house counsel. It is based in London.

The Lawyer was launched in 1987 by Centaur Media plc. It published a once-weekly magazine for 30 years until May 2017, when the frequency changed to monthly.

The publication was acquired by Legal Benchmarking Group in 2025.

As well as the legal news and analysis website TheLawyer.com, The Lawyer also publishes market reports and information products. These include Litigation Tracker, which launched in 2019 and publishes litigation news and analysis, and maintains a searchable database of case and claims data from 15 UK high courts. The Lawyer's spin-off online brand for students and aspiring lawyers is called Lawyer 2B. Most content on the news website TheLawyer.com is paywalled, requiring a personal or corporate subscription to access.

The Lawyer has had five editors since it was founded.