A new diversity initiative has taken shape in the United States. Called the Black General Counsel 2025 Initiative, the key goal is to see African-Americans better represented in the in-house legal profession – particularly as general counsel or chief legal officers of larger public and private companies. Continue reading “Black General Counsel 2025 Initiative”
Corporate crisis events are on the upswing. A faster-paced R&D cycle, improved (but potentially riskier) technology, 24-hour news… the list of potential triggers goes on. Continue reading “Crisis: Adding value when the pressure’s on”
Storyteller. Ninja. Scrum Master. Brand Champion. Evangelist. The modern commercial world has created many new genres of work, but sometimes it’s hard to know what they mean. Continue reading “Riding Schumpeter’s Gale”
GC: Now less than a year out from the United Kingdom’s scheduled withdrawal from the European Union, how would you characterise the current state of negotiations between the UK and the EU? Continue reading “Rt Hon Dominic Grieve QC MP”
A set of shared values and beliefs. In the workplace, these define the organisation and the way people work in it. Continue reading “Trend Flash Report: Culture Change and Diversity”
With five destinations in total – Berlin, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Munich and Stuttgart – 75 general counsel joined GC, represented by editor-in-chief Alex Speirs and deputy editor Greg Hall, for the dinners. Continue reading “Dinner with GC: Germany”
Pressure for business to ‘go green’ has been building steadily for much of the past decade. What started in patches from a vocal minority has fast become a corporate imperative, as progressive governments impose both incentives and penalties on businesses, while an increasingly informed consumer base vote with their wallets. Continue reading “Clean commerce: Finance goes green”
Change in business is inevitable and the in-house legal department is no exception. GCs, the teams they lead, the way they are viewed and the work that they do are all changing. Continue reading “Facing The Inevitable: shaping the legal department and the law firm of the future”
One would be forgiven for thinking that a sense of normality may be returning to Spain following a calming of the rhetoric coming from separatists in Catalonia. Continue reading “A fresh start for Spain”
For this quarter’s column, I’m going to take a look at legal operations, which appears to have replaced ‘innovation’ as the main buzzword in legal circles. Continue reading “Legal Operations: have you drunk the Kool-Aid?”