The risk report – Reputations tarnished as #MeToo fallout hits the legal profession
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#MeToo blotted the risk landscape in 2018, as firms wrestled with the fallout in a year where the profession’s ethics were put under the spotlight
Beyond the cookie cutter
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The In-House Lawyer teamed up with Morrison & Foerster to ask GCs about digital disruption and the role of in-house lawyers
The GC outlook: more for more and more to come
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One reason in-house teams are prospering is they have adapted to the realities of the modern working world better than their counterparts in private practice.
Significant matters – Winter 2019
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Lloyds primed for new year panel shake-up Lloyds Banking Group is looking at slimming its UK roster with a number of firms set to jostle for places in 2019. Currently the core panel comprises CMS, Eversheds Sutherland, Herbert Smith Freehils, Hogan Lovells, Addleshaw Goddard and Magic Circle duo Linklaters and Allen & Overy. The bank’s …
Whatever happened to PRIME?
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Thomas Alan assesses the initially lauded, now forgotten social inclusion initiative
Cutting teeth
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On the back of our recent research on the first 100 days of being a GC, we assembled a panel of general counsel to debate the key findings
Under the influence
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UCL professor Richard Moorhead talks about a pioneering study of the state of general counsel ethics
From monkey to organ grinder
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Waves of regulation are giving GCs more resource, responsibility and risk. The In-House Lawyer assesses the state of the modern in-house team
Tencent on the dollar
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The legal chiefs of two of China’s largest public companies, Tencent and Xiaomi, discuss growth and the challenges of lawyering in Asia’s much-fêted tech sector
Significant matters
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Pearson revisits adviser panel Pearson has elected to consolidate its legal adviser panels into new ‘general’ and ‘preferred’ rosters, moving away from specialised panels in a bid to reduce costs. Fourteen firms have won places on the preferred panel, which Pearson says will address ‘day-to-day requirements’, in addition to newer areas not historically covered by …