‘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.
Who do you need to be? | Learning to adapt
How do we flex our styles to meet changing and increasingly volatile circumstances?
The changing talent economy in sub-saharan Africa | The value of human capital
As the growth of the major economies across Africa continues and the region as a whole becomes an increasingly attractive destination for foreign capital, GC speaks with in-house counsel on the ground to find out if the requisite talent to facilitate growth is available and how the domestic talent pool is developing.
