Pacific Shift | The Rising Tide of Tech
In-House Technology in Asia PacificAs the Asia Pacific tech scene takes off, GC asks what tools the region’s general counsel are using to handle legal work.
As the Asia Pacific tech scene takes off, GC asks what tools the region’s general counsel are using to handle legal work.
The challenge of managing a legal function remotely has forced GCs to think creatively. Xae Hoyy Loh, general counsel and compliance officer of agribusiness giant Pilmico International shares his insights.
GC asks Asia’s general counsel what lockdown has meant for productivity, team cohesion and the use of technology.
The legal tech market is notoriously fragmented. Are law firms missing a business opportunity by keeping their expertise to themselves?
It has been a difficult year for Freshfields. In PR terms it has been an annus horribilis, and the enormity of the challenge faced by the firm’s first female senior partner, Georgia Dawson, cannot be understated.
When the German government says of a law firm that it ‘cannot conceive that new work will be placed there’, that firm has a major problem. Does that reputational damage threaten Freshfields’ global practice, and what questions does it pose to the firm’s new leadership?
Building a new legal compliance division during a pandemic is not for the feint hearted. Hector Garcia, lead of legal and compliance express centre in LATAM and Canada at Bayer shares how he has managed the challenge of building a new brand new in-house legal team remotely.
Contributed by Detlef Huber, Carpentum Capital