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General Counsel’s Role in Mitigating Organisational Burnout
We continue to witness high levels of stress and burnout among in-house counsel and managers. General counsel (also called ‘lead in-house counsel’) can play a pivotal role in mitigating burnout...Read more
Constance E. Bagley
CEO, Founder, and General Counsel, Bagley Strategic Advisors LLC, USA
Pernille Steen Pedersen
Assistant Professor, Cbs, Denmark
The Role of an Ethics Committee in Guiding In-House Counsel Through the Legal Minefield
Once it is suggested that a lawyer or an organisation that they work for is unethical, there is little that can be done to stop the inevitable tide of censure...Read more
Michael Stamp
Senior Force Legal Adviser, Devon & Cornwall Constabulary, UK
Lawyers Doing Good in the Community
Lawyers are not always cast in positive light. Often unfairly.
One of William Shakespeare's most famous literacy lines is the sentence from Henry VI, Part 2, Act IV, Scene 2,...Read more
Jeffery Tan
Group General Counsel & Chief Sustainability Officer , Jardine Cycle & Carriage Limited, Singapore
Legal Developments in Employment Agreements Containing Non-Compete Clauses and Alternate Protections
As an employment law attorney, I represented employees who were both threatened and sued for alleged violations of non-compete clauses in employment agreements. As a business owner for the past...Read more
Andrew Marquardt
Chief Executive Officer and General Counsel, Advantage Tech Inc, USA
A Gold Standard for Clean Room Development to Protect From Intellectual Property Infections
In many situations, a company encounters intellectual property that it cannot allow to spread to a product in development. One example is a joint development project between two companies where...Read more
Bob Zeidman
President, Zeidman Consulting, USA
Generative Artificial Intelligence: Legal Profession Disrupted?
The introduction and widespread availability of ChatGPT gave rise to fears that lawyers will soon become obsolete. A representative news article is that by Jenna Greene, Will ChatGPT make lawyers...Read more
James Lau
Singapore
The Interplay between Antitrust Law and
Intellectual Property Law in South Africa:
A Critical Analysis of the OECD Recommendation on Intellectual Property Rights and Competition 
The interplay between competition law and intellectual property remains the subject of much debate. Intellectual property creates monopolistic rights to protect and reward innovation and incentivise creators; whilst competition law...Read more
Madelein Kleyn
Chief Legal and IP Officers, Omnisient Rf Pty, South Africa
Michael Currie
Partner, Primerio, South Africa
Stephany Torres
Senior Associate, Primerio, South Africa
Joshua Eveleigh
Associate (designate), Primerio, South Africa
Lawyers, Workplace, Mental Health & Psychological Safety
In 2022, the European Union agency for occupational safety and health (EU-OSHA) conducted its ‘Flash Eurobarometer – OSH Pulse survey’, interviewing over 27,000 employed workers on the phone across all...Read more
Jeffery Tan
Group General Counsel & Chief Sustainability Officer , Jardine Cycle & Carriage Limited, Singapore
Impact of Sanctions on Russian Companies and Ways to Minimize Their Consequences.
This article is aimed at discussing the problems that Russian companies face in the context of sanctions imposed on the country and ways to solve them. To accurately identify problems...Read more
Elena Ogawa
PF Finance, LEVINE Bridge Company, Russia
Anastasia Maslova
Lawyer, Levine Bridge LLC, Russia
MiCA Regulation: General Overview and Inhouse Perspective
The regulators are not able to anticipate technology but have been working, since now few years, to regulate the already existing phenomenon of digital currencies and crypto assets. In Europe...Read more
Andrea Brancatelli
Assistant General Counsel , MoneyGram , Italy