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How do we flex our styles to meet changing and increasingly volatile circumstances?

In the latest in our Dinner with GC series, we consider some of the different calibrations of the general counsel role, in addition to the relationship between internal and external counsel – set against the backdrop of a city under pressure from the plummeting price of crude oil.

Ben Heineman was GE’s Senior Vice President-General Counsel from 1987-2003 and then GE’s Senior Vice President for Law and Public Affairs from 2004 until his retirement at the end of 2005. In this exclusive excerpt from his new book, he considers the challenges of conflict between a company’s global ethical policy and national laws.

Carlyle Kingswood Global talks to Rob Putland, deputy global GC at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, a man busy transforming what it means to be an in-house lawyer.

GC distils the learnings from the 2016 Lex Mundi General Counsel Summit with pragmatic solutions for in-house counsel when handling a crisis.

The launch of GC Magazine’s first special report publication, focused on diversity and inclusion in the UK in-house community, drew an impressive roster of attendees. The report is part of a range of initiatives undertaken by GC Magazine and The Legal 500 in regards to diversity and inclusion in the legal community globally. The UK report …

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GC sits down with members of the Legal 500’s GC Powerlist: France for an inside look at the French economy and legal market.

In a future where change and acceleration are seemingly the sole constant, how GCs adapt and lead will be essential to the success of the in-house legal function.

GC spoke to in-house counsel and a global leader in management consulting to learn how process management, measurement and metrics are becoming an increasingly important tool for GCs and how different businesses are putting them to use in order to evolve their service-delivery models.

With the economy in a state of flux and political reform firmly on the agenda, GC speaks with members of The Legal 500’s GC Powerlist: Italy, for their take on what’s on the horizon for Lo Stivale.