If crisis elevates GCs, then 2020 will be an inflexion point for in-house counsel
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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
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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
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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
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‘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 …
Education, education, education
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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 …
The imagination gap
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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
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‘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
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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
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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
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Business is full of buzzwords, and among the buzziest of the last few years is ‘agile’.
Brand management: hot topics to look out for in the 2020s | Purdy Smith
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Mark Smith, founder and CEO of Purdy Smith, discusses some of the brand management issues in-house lawyers should keep an eye on in the upcoming decade, with a focus on the headline-grabbing areas of advertising and consumer law.
Use of electronic signatures | Brodies
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With COVID-19 leading to many people working remotely, organisations need to think about how documents and contracts can be signed and concluded. While some projects will slow or stall, many routine contracts will be up for renewal in the next few months, and other transactions will be due to complete. The logistics of signing in …