‘I am Sparta!’ ‘No, we are Sparta!’ Legal Business Working at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) wouldn’t suit every lawyer. If you yearn for walls spotted by Damien Hirst, encrusted…
The conflict between a corporation’s global standards and national law Legal Business A fundamental principle for multi-national companies is compliance with the law of all nations where they do business. But a…
Dinner with GC: Houston Legal Business PARTICIPANTS Gregory Bopp – Managing partner, Bracewell LLP David DeVeau – General counsel, Kinder Morgan Inc. Jeffrey Kaplan – General counsel, LyondellBasell Susan…
Who do you need to be? Legal Business What is considered important professional ‘news’ for an in-house lawyer? Sure, many will see the changing legal landscape as news,…
Ghost in the machine: AI, law, ethics – what does it mean for you? Legal Business There’s change afoot out there in the world, a world in which any remaining Luddites can no longer sit with…
In-house life: Ton van den Bosch, International Container Terminal Services, Inc. Legal Business When I joined ICTSI two and a half years ago as their first GC, we recruited additional in-house counsel around…
Dissenting perspectives Legal Business This Spring, GC magazine and RPC teamed up for a series of innovative events bringing provocative, and often downright maverick,…
The view from the top Legal Business ‘I have relied upon lawyers so much in my commercial career; it is important you understand how much your peer…
Let’s talk business: part two Legal Business Tim Murphy has worked for MasterCard for 16 years. Starting out as an in-house lawyer, he then spent over ten…
Crouching tiger, dwindling dragon Legal Business Broadly speaking, the economies of Asia comprise the largest financial and population bloc in the world. Throughout the Global Financial…
GC Powerlist: Australia and New Zealand Legal Business Australia and New Zealand are Oceania’s two largest economies and have strong links beyond a feeling of shared culture and…
Enterprise GC 2016 Legal Business Tom Sager, former general counsel for DuPont, addressed attendees on day one about the evolution of the GC role from…
Procurement and legal – a perfect storm Legal Business There are some things in life that don’t seem quite right when put together: take Jerry Hall and Rupert Murdoch,…
GC Powerlist: Mexico Legal Business In a world experiencing both economic and political upheaval, North America remains a relative bastion of stability and prosperity globally,…
Riding the wave: how engaging with corporate sustainability can help GCs to demonstrate value Legal Business GC: Can you tell me about the UN Global Compact and what ‘sustainability’ means for businesses? Ursula Wynhoven (UW): The Global…
Perfect panelling for the post-public post Legal Business Royal Mail is rather like Unilever House, the grand 1930s neoclassical Art Deco building it inhabits on the north side…
What 18 years in-house taught me about how to advise clients Legal Business In late 1998, I stepped onto the seventh floor of Eleven Madison Avenue in New York City. I was interviewing…
GC Roundtable: Business as usual? Middle East Legal Business With a fall in commodity prices prompting fiscal pressures for businesses around the globe, it comes as no surprise that…
Focus on… Xerox Legal Business In 1981, Xerox devised and released the first computer (though Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace might well disagree on this…
Who do you want to be? Legal Business I meet and spend time with many GC’s from both large, and not so large, organisations. It can be an…
