The GC’s role in preparing for the (inevitable) crisis | Counsel and crisis
GC distils the learnings from the 2016 Lex Mundi General Counsel Summit with pragmatic solutions for in-house counsel when handling a crisis.
‘I am Sparta!’ ‘No, we are Sparta!’ | Re-thinking the role of general counsel
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.
The conflict between a corporation’s global standards and national law |
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.
Dinner with GC: Houston |
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.