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Legal Best-Practices and Multicultural Skills as Key to the Success of the In-House Profession When Dealing With Customers in the People’s Republic of China and in The United States of America: A Comparison
In today’s fast-paced international market, in-house lawyers are required to develop and define the skill of what we could call multiculturalism – whether if selling, purchasing, networking, merging or creating...Read more
Fiorenza Provenzano
Legal Department Executive, SPEA S.p.A., Italy
General Counsel - The C-Suite's Swiss Army Knife
The role of the General Counsel (GC) continues to evolve in a corporation. The requirement for a GC to be a highly skilled legal practitioner is only the entry level...Read more
Jeffery Tan
Group General Counsel & Chief Sustainability Officer , Jardine Cycle & Carriage Limited, Singapore
Retaining Internal Clients' Trust: Balancing Compliance and Legal Services
Obtaining and retaining internal client satisfaction, and gaining the trust and respect of the business is the most consistently cited goal of in-house lawyers.
In-house legal teams, however, now often provide...Read more
Brandon Irsigler
Director , Strata Legal, South Africa
Letting Lawyers be Lawyers: Principles of Legal Value Optimization
Many legal futurologists proclaim the coming of a dystopian world for lawyers. In this world, the rise of automation requires the fall of lawyers. We are more optimistic, and see...Read more
Paul Daly
Co-Founder and Legal Academic, Navigate.legal and University of Cambridge, UK
The lawyer’s Paradox: The Link Between Personality and Psychopathology in Lawyers
When it comes to mental health, lawyers appear to be their own worst enemies. Research over the past several decades has identified that certain traits and characteristics correlate with success...Read more
Danielle Brezina
Legal Counsel, Law Branch, Alberta Energy Regulator, Canada
The Psychology of Legal Innovation
Lawyers contain all of the latent creativity required to shape their personal and professional worlds. Unlocking that potential is a matter of expectation and exposition. Cost pressure and urgency have...Read more
Bruce Hardy
Legal Counsel - Technology, Innovation & IP, Telstra Corporation, Australia
A Walk Around International Subsidiary Management Processes
Global Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) owning subsidiaries in foreign countries can recognize the challenge of managing a multinational portfolio. While many of them keep outsourced or decentralized managing structures, an increasing...Read more
Karen Kamelman
Senior International Corporate Counsel -, The Clorox Company, Argentina
Managing Legal & Compliance Department in a Medium-Sized Company
Whether a company is a middle-sized company is comparable and judgmental based on its business scale and number of employees in a country and in an industry. Usually a combined...Read more
Chloe Liu
General Counsel-Region Great China, Bsh, China
In-House Counsel in Parent Companies: A Balance Between Two Roles
One of the key-challenges for the in-house lawyers in parent companies remains to provide legal support to the Subsidiaries while ensuring the group governance.
These two roles are contradictory. However,...Read more
Gilles Mugnier
International affairs director, Sncf, France
Managing the In-House Counsel Function
The role of the in house counsel has evolved significantly over time. As the reach of globalisation increases, sharing of information has become more widespread. Consequently there has been a...Read more
Selin Pattni
Head of Legal Henkel Global Supply Chain B.V, Henkel Global Supply Chain B.V. , Netherlands