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Let’s talk business: part one | Returning to law after business

Spring 2016

MasterCard’s Tim Murphy discusses his return to legal after ten years in business roles.

GC Roundtable: Mapping the future GC, Houston | GC Roundtable: future GC role

Spring 2016

In association with MLegal, GC gathered a number of leading in-house counsel in Houston to consider where the role of the general counsel is heading, along with that of their legal team.

Opening up to new partnerships | Collaborative working at Novartis

Spring 2016

Don Tapscott’s Macrowikinomics (co-written with Anthony Williams) highlighted the groundbreaking step taken in 2007 by Novartis of sharing its type 2 diabetes research online. GC catches up with Felix R. Ehrat, Novartis Group General Counsel, to find out more about the practicalities of open collaboration.

Our great leader: unraveling the process of choosing the right candidate for the top job | Leadership and business

Spring 2016

GC talks to rising star in business theory Gautam Mukunda, Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior at Harvard Business School, whose recent research looks at the way leaders are chosen in politics and business and comes up with some surprising results.

Best practice or not best practice? That is the question | Benchmarking, best practice and best fit

Winter 2015

We often look outside our organisation to find the best practice. But that may be very bad practice…

Your business matters… Top tips for case management | Top tips for case management

Winter 2015

Case and matter management software specialists Iken talk us through some of the dos and don’ts when it comes to finding the right case management system.

GC Powerlist: Russia | GC Powerlist

Winter 2015

From isolation to integration to sanctions, Russia has experienced testing economic times. GC speaks to honourees of The Legal 500’s GC Powerlist: Russia to explore the challenges and opportunities.

Shopping around | Working in-house: Russian retail

Winter 2015

Moscow-based Maksim Arefiev is director of the legal service centre at X5 Retail Group and has worked in-house since qualifying as a lawyer. He chats to GC about his career in the Russian retail sector.

Dinner with GC: New York | Dinner with GC

Winter 2015

GC discusses delegation, disruption and strategic input for cross-border legal teams over dinner with leading in-house and external lawyers in New York.

Green shoots: the growth of newlaw in Asia Pacific | Newlaw in Asia Pacific

Winter 2015

GC looks at the emergence of alternative legal service providers in Asia Pacific.

In-House Technology in Asia Pacific

GC magazine teamed up WSG to survey over 100 of Asia Pacific’s leading general counsel, asking them about everything from the impact of Covid-19 on the legal team’s efficiency to their use of AI, how they find the right software (and the money to buy it), and their expectations of outside counsel when it comes to technology.

Women in Law: Latin America

In this GC magazine special edition, in partnership with Willkie, Farr & Gallagher LLP, we focus on profiling a group of trailblazing women in-house counsel across Latin America – women who have, in the face of quite significant challenges, broken through barriers and glass ceilings, and are paving the way for others to follow.

Their Voices

GC's latest collaboration with Clifford Chance, Their Voices: Insights from Today’s Rising Lawyers, chronicles the journeys and stories of a selection of the next generation of lawyers, revealing that the stereotypical, well-trodden pathway to law is far from the sole entry point to the profession.

Advice To My Younger Self: Reflections of Successful Women Lawyers

In Advice To My Younger Self: Reflections of Successful Women Lawyers, GC Magazine team worked with Clifford Chance to profile the professional journeys of some of its female partners and associates around the world, highlighting the diversity of pathways to success as a woman in law, and also to share practical learnings and tips

To help us understand just how the Covid-19 pandemic impacted businesses in the region, we spoke to over 100 of Latin America’s leading GCs regarding how their organisations adjusted to life during lockdown, what impact the situation had on the legal team’s ability to perform its day-to-day role, and which areas of their businesses’ operations were likely to be hit hardest.