Spring 2020

If crisis elevates GCs, then 2020 will be an inflexion point for in-house counsel

New Law is as a breed still a lot better at promise than delivery, particularly on claims of providing better value than law firms.

Sivan Whiteley – Square

Sivan Whiteley’s legal career began with the study of rational choice theory at university – decoding why people make the decisions they make.

Fit for purpose

Mark McAteer, The In-House Lawyer: How has the role of the general counsel  changed over the last five years and how will it be different in five years’ time?

Remote controls

‘How does an organisation maintain resilience when everything it designed and built was for a different way of working?’ asks DWF’s global head of data protection, privacy and cybersecurity, Stewart Room. As the world battles a pandemic, organisations around the globe are turning homes into offices and personal devices into office tools. The sudden change …

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Education, education, education

Julie Brannan, Solicitors Regulation Authority: It certainly is an important moment for the training of the profession, so it is sensible to start with a reminder of what it is all about. First, better assurance of high professional standards is at the heart of this. Protecting consumers of legal services by making sure everybody we …

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The imagination gap

Rising temperatures and sea levels, shrinking ice sheets and sea ice, extreme weather events. They’re all mainstays of today’s news cycles with a worrying – and growing – frequency.

Eye of the storm

‘Insurers are trying to remain profitable in a hard environment – it’s still a difficult and competitive market,’ notes Katherine Coates, head of insurance at Clifford Chance (CC), assessing the UK insurance industry a few days before the coronavirus outbreak was classed as a global emergency.

Reputation preserved

Specialist lawyers, covering areas such as trade mark protection and enforcement as well as advertising and marketing, have had a role to play in shaping the success of some of the biggest global consumer brands.

Chicken run

In an exclusive extract from her new book You Didn’t Mention The Piranhas, Sarah Nelson Smith writes candidly about how it feels to be in the middle of a PR crisis:

Scrum time

Business is full of buzzwords, and among the buzziest of the last few years is ‘agile’.

Three simple tips to avoid fraud and errors in times of crisis | Greenberg Traurig

Gareth Hall, Anne-Marie Ottaway and Barry Vitou of Greenberg Traurig discuss ways that businesses can respond to the renewed threat of fraud in the light of the coronavirus crisis.

The PACTE Law – new provisions under French law to strengthen French national patents | LAVOIX

The PACTE Law no 2019-468 relating to companies growth and transformation of 22 May 2019 (the PACTE Law) has brought in France a wide range of structural measures aimed at lifting obstacles for the growth of companies.