Client profile: Richard Price, Anglo American Hamish McNicol Shortly before Richard Price went in-house as group general counsel (GC) and company secretary at Anglo American, the legal team’s…
Sole-adviser relationships: Commitment issues Hamish McNicol Commitment. Marriage. Honeymoon. Divorce. Conversations about single-supplier legal advisory mandates are rife with relationship-strewn analogies. While no two arrangements are…
Refreshing revamps: EDF and Co-op Group look to new firms in panel reviews Hamish McNicol One of the UK’s big six energy suppliers, EDF Energy, has nearly halved its external advisers in a bid to…
Veteran Novartis GC Ehrat steps down over ‘error’ in Trump lawyer agreement Hamish McNicol A longstanding and well-respected member of the in-house community, Felix Ehrat has abruptly stepped down from his role as general…
Aviation focus: Winds of change Catherine Wycherley Uncertainty seems to be the only thing lawyers working in Europe’s aviation sector can count on these days. The recent…
Client profile: Daniel Toner, Spire Healthcare Tom Baker Daniel Toner had done his research. Before an interview to become head of legal at Bupa Hospitals in 2006, he…
Gamification – the thoroughly modern way to redesign legal services Catherine Wycherley You may not have heard the term ‘gamification’, but the chances are you have experienced a form of it. Perhaps…
Trust me, I’m a lawyer… technology and the evolving role of GCs Catherine McGregor Academic and Thinkers50 honouree Rachel Botsman is focused on trust. Of late, that focus has looked at how technology has…
Novartis GC Ehrat steps down over ‘error’ in Trump lawyer agreement Hamish McNicol Veteran group general counsel of Swiss healthcare giant Novartis, Felix Ehrat, is standing down after admitting ‘an error’ relating to…
Two new faces gain membership to reshaped Co-op legal panel Hamish McNicol Seven firms have won spots on a revamped Co-op Group legal panel which sees its corporate, commercial and property panels…
It’s a team game at the legal elite but the mix of players is changing Alex Novarese This year we return to the team format of the GC Powerlist, our flagship annual report chronicling the elite of…
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Forming, storming, norming and performing James Wood What makes a great corporate legal team? It is a question general counsel (GCs) surprisingly often struggle to answer. This…
