Autumn 2017

Cyber attacks: the clock’s ticking… | Baker McKenzie

It is the phone call that all in-house lawyers or chief compliance officers may dread. It might be from your IT team, or from law enforcement, reporting that there has been a security breach and that data has been leaked to the dark web; or it might be from a journalist, telling you that they …

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Mark Cooper, Cadent Gas

Within a month of Mark Cooper joining National Grid (NG)’s in-house team in 2015, things became very busy very quickly. UK general counsel Rachael Davidson told him that one of the businesses he was looking after – NG’s gas distribution network – was going to be sold off.

Unitary patents – more than 40 years to make and a Brexit to break? | Brodies

Hailed as representing the first-ever truly pan-EU patent system set to come into being later this year, the future of the new Unitary Patent Court (the UPC) has been thrown into doubt.

David Fein, Standard Chartered Bank

As a former senior staffer in the Clinton administration, David Fein has a tendency to chart his career and life against the backdrop of US politics. While working as a state district attorney, it was early in Barack Obama’s second presidential term that Fein found himself getting wistful for a new chapter, one that would …

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Robotic process automation: understanding the legal issues | CMS Cameron McKenna

Quite simply, Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is software which mimics and replaces computer-facing work which is or can be done by humans. Think of it as a ‘digital workforce’.

GC 2.0

Do you know your cash-burn phase from your TLDNR? Welcome to the buccaneering, hierarchy-lite world of the fast-growth, tech-driven ‘disruptors’, the kind of business that a growing number of lawyers aspire to work in or advise.