Facing The Inevitable: shaping the legal department and the law firm of the future

Facing The Inevitable: shaping the legal department and the law firm of the future

The law firm of the future

In business, change is inevitable: what, then, does the future hold for in-house counsel, their teams and the law firms that serve them?

The Big Picture

Change in business is inevitable and the in-house legal department is no exception. GCs, the teams they lead, the way they are viewed and the work that they do are all changing. The role of the GC is increasingly morphing towards one of leadership and strategy, as the focus moves away from questions of black-letter law, into ones of resource optimisation, budget management and board-level strategy.

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