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‘The Queen must be worried about the heady rise. Rob’s got to go in.’ Rob Booth: General counsel and company…

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Nick Olley: General counsel, Department for Transport Team headcount: 93 Law firms used: Addleshaw Goddard, Allen & Overy, Burges Salmon,…

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As part of our research into the UK’s leading in-house talent, we also sought out the rising stars to watch…

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GC: Obviously the Snowden story was a huge scoop for The Guardian. How did you first hear about it, and…

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Schadenfreude doesn’t feature much between in-house legal departments, so many general counsel would have winced when TalkTalk chief executive Baroness…

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Just what is it that you want to do? We wanna be free. We wanna be free to do what…

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‘One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. “Which road…

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Twenty years ago the idea of any person instructing the Bar other than a private practice solicitor was frowned upon.…

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Working long hours, expected to be available at all hours, and labelled a cost-centre. Such are the pressures of life…

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In June 2014 the government extended flexible working rights to more than 20 million employees across the UK in a…

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The energy group’s upstream legal chief discusses general counsel’s role as a risk partner and that £47bn deal As BG…

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In-house teams instructing the Bar has gone mainstream over the last ten years. LB assesses how far direct access can…

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‘Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them’, muses Malvolio, a steward in Shakespeare’s Twelfth…

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Collaboration in Big Pharma might seem like anathema for some who think of the regular patent litigation headlines that the…

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We started our discussion, which was held in association with recruiters Mlegal, by considering the big picture – how the…

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Tim Murphy has worked for MasterCard for 16 years. Starting out as an in-house lawyer, he then spent over ten…

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‘Big data’ is becoming a buzzword in all walks of business life, and legal is no exception – whether that…

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The explosive economic growth of Turkey’s economy, which started in 2001 and peaked between 2002 and 2007 with the establishment…

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Korin Neff, senior vice president and corporate compliance officer, talks about leadership and development at Wyndham Worldwide.

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Victor Topadze became group legal director at Russian classifieds business Avito in 2012. He saw his team grow from a…