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The New GC Toolkit: Hired help – bringing new skills to legal teams
‘A good general counsel (GC) should do three things,’ says National Grid’s Alison Kay: ‘Manage the legal requirements of the…
The New GC Toolkit: The innovation illusion
‘There’s a palpable sense of innovation in the legal industry,’ says Casey Flaherty, founder of legal technology consultancy Procertas. ‘But…
The New GC Toolkit: The discerning customer – smarter procurement
In-house teams are using new techniques and recruiting specialists to take a more sophisticated approach to procuring legal services…
The New GC Toolkit: Journey into the unknown – upgrading operations and tech
For general counsel (GCs) struggling to manage the administrative and regulatory burdens of the role, a head of operations has…
All restless souls – City firms braced as partnership goes Millennial
‘It was so long ago,’ reflects Malcolm Sweeting, Clifford Chance’s (CC) senior partner, of his promotion to partner in 1990.…
Crunching the data – Trends and tribulations
The Partnership Scoreboard – Trends and tribulations As part of our analysis of the modern realities of partnership, Legal Business…
Partnership Perspectives
‘The Dickensian management role of closed doors is a thing of the past.’ Jonathan Kewley, partner and co-head of Clifford…
International Arbitration Insight: Bigger, longer, more complicated
‘Arbitration has gone from being the exotic bird of dispute resolution to become almost the norm,’ argues Constantine Partasides of…
The edge of the cliff – Brexit response for worried GCs
For UK business, 2018 will be dominated by one question: when do we push the button on Brexit? Months of…
Dollars and sense – charting the GC response as sustainability hits the boardroom
A tougher risk environment is taking sustainability from PC fad to board-level concern… and onto the agendas of GCs. We…
Leadership and the modern GC: a special report
We teamed up with Reed Smith to ask which skills the GCs of tomorrow will need to lead and what…
Soft law, hard sanctions – Human rights laws and the next risk front facing business
With human rights issues entering the mainstream of business practice, we teamed up with Herbert Smith Freehills to assess how…
The risk debate: The gate keepers’ burden
Our annual Legal Business/Marsh round table saw law firm risk managers debate their role in fighting on two fronts –…
Up in the air – As Brexit looms, GCs face leap into the unknown
Business is struggling to find a response as the Brexit vote looms. We team up with Herbert Smith Freehills to…
The end of the tunnel – litigation and regulatory challenges in financial services
Legal Business teamed up with Simmons & Simmons to discover how financial institutions are coping with the twin threats of…
Commercial Dispute Resolution Survey
As Legal Business publishes its second annual Disputes Yearbook, Cornerstone Research scopes the views of in-house counsel and private practitioners…
AI and the law tools of tomorrow: A special report
Deep Blue sky thinking: The cutting edge of legal AI Applied science and snake oil: AI in practice The i-Team:…