In order to capitalise on the benefits that a diverse and inclusive workplace can bring, a leader may have to get beyond initial resistance within the corporation, often arising from fear of being targeted or implicitly blamed. Continue reading “Shaping diversity: part two”
Despite the many senior GCs and in-house counsel that we have interviewed for this report (and elsewhere in GC magazine) as active sponsors of diverse workplaces, some of our consultants noted that legal departments were not typically being identified by diversity professionals as pioneers within their corporations on this issue. Continue reading “Shaping diversity: part three”
Diversity and inclusion are now top strategic priorities for 21st century business leaders. Across the globe, many general counsel and law firm managing partners are engaged in the debate and committed to creating the conditions for diverse and inclusive organisations. Continue reading “Diversity toolkit”
We began our survey of European GCs and other leading in-house legal figures by posing the question ‘Do you think that the legal team has a role to play in promoting diversity and inclusion in the wider organisation?’ Continue reading “A numbers game: diversity in Europe”
1998 seems like a lifetime ago, where global e-commerce was a futuristic fantasy for ordinary people just discovering the internet. Yet 1998 was year zero for the European Union’s Data Protection Directive – the basis for legislation protecting personal data across member states today.
Over the past year, I’ve spent a lot of my time talking to GCs, in-house legal teams and partners in private practice, to ensure that what we are doing at The Legal 500 matches up to the needs of the market.
Succession planning in the c-suite is a high-stakes game. Even well-managed transitions in the top jobs can lead to stock price fluctuations and queries about a company’s strategic direction and goals.
Continue reading “Passing the baton: succession planning for GCs”
‘For the eyes of the world now look into space, to the moon and to the planets beyond, and we have vowed that we shall not see it governed by a hostile flag of conquest, but by a banner of freedom and peace.’
John F Kennedy
When President John F Kennedy stood before Rice University on 12 September 1962 and boldly declared that not only would the US be the first country to land on the moon, but they would do it before the end of the decade, he captured and captivated the imaginations of a generation.
Outside of the catwalks of Milan, there’s probably nowhere on earth where fads come and go as quickly as in Silicon Valley. For every groundbreaking idea or transcendent success story, there are one hundred others that have just as quickly gone by the wayside.
Naturally, that town is Silicon Valley, the home of innovation. And the innovator in question is UC Berkeley – a leading US law school, renowned for its prowess in technology and IP.