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Over the past two years, it has been a privilege to work with many senior General Counsel, those who work with them – including a Chairman, a Chief Executive and...Read more

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent. It is the one that is most adaptable to change. This quote, likely incorrectly attributed to...Read more

How many articles read, how many conferences attended around this question about a vision of the future of in-house legal counsels; but what concrete actions do we need to integrate...Read more

In this article, the term GC, traditionally used to refer to General Counsel or the lead legal counsel for a corporation, will be substituted for the more appropriate world-wide sobriquet...Read more

Many law firm lawyers hope, at some point in their legal careers, to move in-house with a corporate law department. Often they seek to eliminate the pressure to develop business,...Read more

I am an English Qualified Solicitor who is currently working as Senior In-House Counsel for Samsung Engineering Co., Ltd (“SECL”) based in Seoul, South Korea; SECL is one of the...Read more

The need to undertake mandatory continuing professional development (CPD) has prompted groans across the profession for over a quarter of a century, with solicitors scrabbling at the last minute to...Read more

For compensation purposes, most companies probably treat their inside lawyers just like everyone else. This means that they do market studies to determine what “market” compensation is for different levels...Read more

The practice of law is a service. Yet few in-house lawyers are assessed on the quality of their service and fewer still actually inquire about it. After nearly a decade...Read more

The evolution of General Counsel’s role within the corporate environment is an interesting one to observe. Traditionally, the in-house counsel was pigeonholed into a distinctly supporting role. The remit was...Read more