GC Issue: Winter 2015

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

GC speaks to two icons of the US in-house legal community, Ben Heineman, former general counsel of GE, and Tom Sager, former general counsel of DuPont, about how the role of the general counsel has progressed and how it might continue to evolve.

David Kultgen has practised in-house in Saudi Arabia on and off since the 1970s, almost immediately following his graduation from law school in the US. A veteran in-houser at oil giant Saudi Aramco, he has recently overseen a huge transformation and expansion of the company’s legal function.

In June 2013, UK newspaper The Guardian and its US peer The Washington Post broke a story that changed the world. Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden had revealed the scale of mass surveillance by the US National Security Agency [NSA]. GC speaks to Gill Phillips, The Guardian’s director of editorial legal services, about the legal implications of making the story public in the UK.

GC gets the lowdown on market conditions in one of the world’s richest countries from GCs profiled in The Legal 500’s GC Powerlist: Switzerland.