The sum of its parts – Charles Handy and the human factor Legal Business Charles Handy is often mistakenly claimed as a homegrown British management guru. He’s actually Irish, but he did spend most…
What did you do when you weren’t at the office today? Legal Business In the last few months I’ve been involved in a number of roundtable discussions, World Café events, advisory boards, awards…
GC reads… Covering – The Hidden Assault On Our Civil Rights Legal Business NYU School of Law professor Kenji Yoshino’s Covering makes the impassioned argument that despite the enshrinement of equality in the…
Fight for your rights Legal Business Nina Macpherson (NM): We are a truly global company and, as such, we do business in more or less every country…
Cutting out corruption Legal Business Once upon a time, in a country far, far away, there was a local tax official. He approached the local…
In-house life: Marek Szydłowski, TVN Group Legal Business Every day at TVN is different. Not a lot of it is spent on practising law, although when that happens,…
Legal fusion Legal Business GC: Schneider has been acquisitive over the last few years. In terms of the core legal team, what challenges does that…
Creating a fun and interesting compliance programme – Pernod Ricard tells us how Legal Business The compliance stakes are climbing higher and higher for global companies. Over the past few years, French companies in particular…
Private equity: the equity of in-house Legal Business It happens in every private equity deal; private equity firms engage outside legal counsel to conduct extensive pre-acquisition due diligence.…
Focus on… RPC Legal Business Along the way, RPC has taken on an increasingly international focus, making strategic headway into Asia and beyond, building on…
GC Powerlist: Middle East Legal Business The Middle East is never boring. The West has long been fascinated by its geo-strategic importance and abundant oil and…
Doing it differently Legal Business Many leading GCs feel that heads of legal are ideally placed as influencers in their corporation to encourage policies and…
What I want from my general counsel – a CEO’s perspective Legal Business Luis Alvarez is CEO of BT Global Services, one of the global market leaders in managed network IT services for…
From client to colleague: why lawyers should become more like coders Legal Business As with a number of start-ups, there’s an anarchistic bent to GitHub – flirting as it does between open-source hosting,…
Welcome to lawyerland Legal Business Recently, one of my colleagues who works in Kolmar’s treasury department asked me whether I liked being a lawyer. I…
Flying solo Legal Business Ten months ago Tim Slotover became the master of his own destiny, creating his own legal services business in the…
The linkedin legal department – pushing the boundaries Legal Business GC: Some of the issues faced by a company such as yours are literally untested – how do you begin…
Learning how to be good from the ‘bad’ guys Legal Business Once upon a time in New Mexico, there was a lawyer who was really, really good, or really, really bad,…
Here be dragons: starting a legal function from scratch Legal Business In the Middle Ages, map makers would often depict a place where ships could sail off the end of the…
The dark side of the moon Legal Business Most of you can shut your eyes and easily visualise the moon. You’d be able to ‘see’ the ‘face’, the…
