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Legal Business

People go in-house for a variety of reasons, such as wanting to be more involved on the business side, and…

Legal Business

Building structure Catherine McGregor: How does department structure impact on the motivation and incentives of your staff and direct reports?

Legal Business

My team primarily provides legal services to the largest-scale commercial transactions, bond and securities issues, divestitures, joint ventures and M&A.…

Legal Business

Lawyers are commonly viewed as deal breakers who protect their clients right out of deals. General counsel would be wise…

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It’s mid-December when I pay a visit to John Lewis, and as I’m waiting in the foyer of the aptly…

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“Does the company lawyer hold a job or does he practise a profession?” This is a question posed by Jacques…

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GC: When you joined HBO Europe in 2011, you undertook a review of the company’s legal systems. Could you tell us…

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In the summer of 2008, Cambridge-based infrastructure software firm Autonomy Corporation [now HP Autonomy] began working on a US acquisition.…

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How much can an in-house lawyer affect the value proposition of an organisation? That’s quite a big question. I would…

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Debt and equity are the two options a company has when choosing how to finance itself. In debt financing, the…

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Participants Catherine McGregor, editor-in-chief, GC magazine Orijit Das, European general counsel and vice president, Genpact Sarah Davis, group commercial legal director, Guardian…

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Businessweek gave Peter Drucker the moniker “the man who invented management”. He has long been considered one of the most…

Legal Business

There’s an oft-quoted remark by Theodore Roosevelt saying, “Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree…

Legal Business

When I was talking recently with the GC of a multinational operating globally, they outlined the purpose of their legal…

Legal Business

The first in GC and The Legal 500’s Corporate Counsel Summit series, which took place in september in new york, combined innovative…

Legal Business

The term whistleblower is said to have been coined in the 1970s by US activist Ralph Nader to avoid the…

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The world is ‘living in an era of unprecedented level of crises and troubles,’ UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told delegates…

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Intellectual property is a critical issue for every company these days, whether they’re looking at traditional IP issues like patents…

Legal Business

Former Airwave GC and company secretary Rachael Davidson is one of a growing breed of UK lawyers who might have…

Legal Business

For the new in-house counsel freshly arrived from a top-tier law firm, the future looks bright. Equipped with analytical skills…