James Miller, RPC’s managing partner, looks at what makes the high performers in this year’s GC Powerlist
Vision, purpose, focus. In my experience as a managing partner, these are essential ingredients for high performance organisations; essential ingredients for high performance teams; and essential ingredients for high performance individuals. Continue reading “Lead sponsor message – RPC: The essential ingredients”
Many congratulations indeed on being selected for the GC Powerlist UK for 2019. We at 3 Verulam Buildings (3VB) are proud to be associated with this authoritative list of ‘the most influential in-house lawyers in business today’, which is the accolade you now carry! Continue reading “Sponsor message – 3 Verulam Buildings: Congratulations”
The business case for greater gender diversity has only increased the need for transformation in executive and functional head roles. Yet women are still far from being equally represented in the top legal position at FTSE companies. Progress has been made in the FTSE 100, but in FTSE 250 companies there is a lack of collective understanding of what it takes to maximise the potential of senior female legal leaders. Continue reading “Sponsor message – Fox Rodney Search: Improving the representation of women at GC level in the FTSE”
The Law Society of Scotland is the professional body for over 11,000 Scottish solicitors. With our overarching objective of leading legal excellence, we strive to excel and to be a world-class professional body, understanding and serving the needs of our members and the public. We set and uphold standards to ensure the provision of excellent legal services and ensure the public can have confidence in Scotland’s solicitor profession.
For busy individuals, tax year end can be a good time to bring your personal finances to the top of the pile, at least momentarily taking stock and ensuring not only that you are prepared for the short term, but that longer-term financial goals are also being addressed.
Continue reading “Sponsor message – Saunderson House: Tax year end opportunities”
If a business is to capitalise on the potential asset they hold in the shape of a good legal claim, at a time when boards are increasingly focused on managing legal spend, it is vital that a general counsel can identify the most cost-effective way to engage their external lawyers and protect the business against heavy costs in the event of a loss.
There is a certain irony to be had in the fact that the best general counsel (GCs) these days are so highly regarded because they are not lawyers in the traditional sense. Increasingly, the conversations the Legal Business team had while researching the 2019 GC Powerlist were about branching out into other areas, with risk management oft-cited. ‘Be a lawyer, but don’t act like a lawyer,’ was uttered more than once.
And this approach is not just reserved for the FTSE 100 companies. This holistic focus has touched both the smallest and largest legal teams. On the start-up side, banking app Monzo combined its GC and chief risk officer role for Dean Nash, who is filling the dual position on an interim basis. Donny Ching, the long-established GC of Shell with a more than 1,000-strong in-house legal team, has also had to embrace risk to a greater degree. Continue reading “Introduction: Risky business”
The research process for the GC Powerlist has grown substantially since the first report was published in 2013, and now encompasses online nominations as well as substantial interviews with senior general counsel (GCs) and private practitioners.
The first stage for the 2019 report began in early December with the launch of an online survey to canvass recommendations for outstanding GCs. Continue reading “Methodology and criteria”
Linklaters managing partner Gideon Moore will stay in his role until April 2022 after the partnership re-elected him for a second term.
Partners confirmed the former banking head in the role during a two-day annual partnership meeting in Cannes after he stood unopposed. However, his second term will be shorter to bring the managing partner and senior partner terms in sync. Senior partner Charlie Jacobs’ first term finishes at the end of 2021. Continue reading “‘Immensely rewarding’: Moore gets second term as Linklaters managing partner”
Pinsent Masons, Bird & Bird, Network Rail and Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (BCLP) were among the major winners at the 2019 Legal Business Awards in front of more than 1,000 guests last night (28 March).
Hosted by comedian, writer and actress Meera Syal, the evening saw Pinsent Masons crowned Law Firm of the Year for a second time, with judges impressed by the firm’s performance in areas such as client satisfaction, CSR and innovation in addition to financial results. Continue reading “Pinsents, Bird & Bird, BCLP and Network Rail the big winners at the 2019 Legal Business Awards”
Leading AI platform Kira Systems will not feature in the latest cohort of tech companies in Allen & Overy (A&O)’s Fuse incubator, making room for more nascent start-ups to enter the Magic Circle firm’s tech space.
In September of last year Kira secured $50m in private equity backing in what was a benchmark for the legal tech sector, while Kira enjoyed year-on-year revenue growth of more than 100% for 2017. Meanwhile Bloomsbury AI, which was purchased for $23m by Facebook in July of last year, has also left Fuse. Continue reading “No Kira in latest Fuse cohort as A&O announces new start-ups set to join incubator”
Slaughter and May has published its first partner-level pay gap report, revealing that male partners earn on average 8.9% more than their female counterparts.
Including all employees, the figures remained flat from 2017, with the mean pay gap between men and women standing at 14.4% and the median gap steady at 38.7%. Continue reading “Slaughters becomes latest to reveal underwhelming gender and ethnicity pay gap”
