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Employing Strategic Immigration Practices to Leverage U.S. Immigration Regulation & Policy to Gain Competitive Advantage in the 21st Century Age of Technology
Immigration law is one of the most dynamic and complex segments of U.S. jurisprudence. Not only does one have to traverse through the web of executive agencies to determine how...Read more

Blair Wheat
General Counsel, LHP Engineering Solutions, USA
A View From the Coal-Face: Corporate Governance Issues in Charging Out and Incentivising In-House Counsel
Information on a company’s costs and risks is crucial to the individuals responsible for the management of the organisation. The in-house legal function has an obvious role to play in...Read more

Jürg Gassmann
Principal, Gassmann Consulting, Ireland
Intellectual Property Challenges in the Food & Beverage Sector
While distribution of food through the correct food channels may address the world’s ever increasing food needs to meet the growing population, food manufacturers will still need to deliver not...Read more

Afzana Anwer
Head of IP, Altilium Clean Technology, UK
The Future of the In-House Lawyer
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

Richard Tapp
Former: Company Secretary and Director of Legal Services, Carillion, UK
The Evolution of In-house Legal & IP Departments
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

Michael Kock
Head IP, Syngenta International AG, Switzerland
What Will the In-House Legal Department of Tomorrow Look Like?
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
Cécile Kavalses
General Counsel Benelux & The Nordics, Atos, Netherlands
Content Portability and the Digital Single Market: Why your favourite content may still not be available to you?

The publication by the European Commission (the “Commission”), in December 2015, of its proposal for a Regulation to ensure EU cross-border portability of online content services (the “Regulation”) represented...Read more

Alec Cameron
Senior Legal Counsel (Intellectual Property & Digital Rights),, Telefonica S.A., UK
Preserving Patent Rights to Company Technology

In the United States, patents are issued to the inventors and control of the prosecution of patent applications is presumed to be with the inventors. However, ownership of those patents...Read more
Michael Ram
Senior Counsel, Koppel, Patrick, Heybl & Philpott, USA
Brian Fitzpatrick
Associate, Koppel, Patrick, Heybl & Philpott, USA
MNCs and the GC - Why it Really Means 'Global Counsel'
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

Mark Van De Voorde
Chief Legal & Administrative Officer, Victaulic, USA
'The Past, the Present, and the Future … Clinical Trials and the Contract Research Organisation (CRO)'
In 2016, Clinical Trials globally are performed to ensure safe and efficacious treatment which meet ethical principles, but will these principles meet the challenges of the future? To understand how...Read more

Helen Fovargue
Assistant General Counsel, Iqvia, UK