Legal Business

Clichés abound over the stereotypical contrast between stuffy lawyers and progressive tech start-up gurus. Clearly law firms – whose liberal…

Legal Business

Storyteller. Ninja. Scrum Master. Brand Champion. Evangelist. The modern commercial world has created many new genres of work, but sometimes…

Legal Business

To kick off the debate, Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) M&A partner Stephen Wilkinson introduced guest speaker Tom White, head of…

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Commitment. Marriage. Honeymoon. Divorce. Conversations about single-supplier legal advisory mandates are rife with relationship-strewn analogies. While no two arrangements are…

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Uncertainty seems to be the only thing lawyers working in Europe’s aviation sector can count on these days. The recent…

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Alex Novarese, The In-House Lawyer: Will the UK legal system be more or less trusted post Brexit? Andy_Tyler_Photography_Legal_Business_Roundtable_08.02Abhijit Mukhopadhyay, Hinduja…

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The global M&A market is booming. Bill Mordan, general counsel at FTSE 100 drug-maker Shire, would know. Shire’s board recently…

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You may not have heard the term ‘gamification’, but the chances are you have experienced a form of it. Perhaps…

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EDF and Co-op overhaul panels Big six energy supplier EDF Energy has almost halved its external advisers in a panel…

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A lively debate over coffee recently with Axiom founder Mark Harris took me back to the discussion that manifests most…

Hamish McNicol

‘My husband has virtually no understanding of what I do,’ admits BAE Systems Air chief counsel Julie Smyth. ‘He thinks…

Catherine Wycherley

Corporate crises are on the upswing. A faster-paced R&D cycle, improved but riskier technology, 24-hour news… the list of triggers…

Hamish McNicol

The global M&A market is booming. Bill Mordan, general counsel at FTSE 100 drug-maker Shire, would know. Shire’s board recently…

Legal Business

Leading a global legal team is a complex role and many general counsel (GCs) could be forgiven for spending all…

Anna Reynolds

Storyteller. Ninja. Scrum Master. Brand Champion. Evangelist. The modern commercial world has created many new genres of work, but sometimes…

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‘A good general counsel (GC) should do three things,’ says National Grid’s Alison Kay: ‘Manage the legal requirements of the…

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‘There’s a palpable sense of innovation in the legal industry,’ says Casey Flaherty, founder of legal technology consultancy Procertas. ‘But…

James Wood

  In-house teams are using new techniques and recruiting specialists to take a more sophisticated approach to procuring legal services…

James Wood

For general counsel (GCs) struggling to manage the administrative and regulatory burdens of the role, a head of operations has…