Heading up the GC Powerlist team at The Legal 500 for the past year has been a pleasure and a privilege, and, as it is the jewel-in-the-crown and home edition of our esteemed publication, it is my extreme honour to be able to introduce this latest instalment of the UK Powerlist, the GC Powerlist: UK Teams 2022.
For this year’s teams-focused Powerlist, we ran with the theme ‘in-house teams in ascendance’. We chose this to reflect the increased prominence that in-house teams have achieved following the challenging and potentially adverse business environment that UK in-house lawyers have had to navigate over the past two-and-a-half years, which unfortunately looks set to continue. A lot has changed since our team decided on the topic earlier this year (a slightly more optimistic period for the British business world before having to absorb increasingly gloomy predictions about the UK’s economic future). Still, the attributes that a top-quality in-house legal team needs to truly support their business remain the same.
