Dissent: Platitudes and a missed debate – how GCs are pushed off their ethical course Legal Business It’s stated so often but never questioned: everywhere you turn, in-house lawyers pay tribute to the holy grail of ‘being…
Dissent: Platitudes and a missed debate – how GCs are pushed off their ethical course Legal Business Paul Gilbert argues that lazy thinking and perverse incentives are dulling the ethical and intellectual edge of in-house counsel It’s…
DISSENT: A self-deceiving return to business as usual Legal Business RSG’s Reena SenGupta argues an improving economic climate is leading top law firms to wrongly assume the ‘new’ normal is…
Comment: A precarious professionalism – Do City lawyers take ethics for granted? Legal Business The practice of law has flipped from vocation to business. Law firms and individual lawyers are measured explicitly in predominantly…
DISSENT: A precarious professionalism Legal Business UCL’s Richard Moorhead argues the integrity and professionalism that City lawyers take for granted is all too easily swayed The…
DISSENT: The road to equity – a difficult journey, an uncertain destination Legal Business The Royal Bank of Scotland’s James Tsolakis argues the profession must accept a fundamental challenge to its traditional model The…
DISSENT: Where do you want your firm to be in 2020? Legal Business Adam Smith, Esq’s Bruce MacEwen argues that short-termism and a lack of stewardship has come to define the modern law…
Comment: The battle for talent and other phoney wars Louise Ashley Since McKinsey & Co first coined the term in 1997, the ‘war for talent’ has been the focus of a…
DISSENT: The battle for talent and other phoney wars Legal Business A false ‘war for talent’ has seen law firms create their own staff shortages, argue Laura Empson and Louise Ashley.…
Dissent: Why the in-house triumph over law firms may prove short-lived Legal Business Scott Gibson and Kristi Edwards argue that GCs have secured a short-term advantage over their external advisers at the risk…
DISSENT: When the BlackBerrys light up: why firms neglect their culture Legal Business Former SJ Berwin head David Harrel argues that law firms delude themselves when it comes to their own values The…
