Channel 4 GC Prash Naik talks about the 360° Diversity Charter introduced by the television broadcaster in 2015.
GC speaks to two icons of the US in-house legal community, Ben Heineman, former general counsel of GE, and Tom Sager, former general counsel of DuPont, about how the role of the general counsel has progressed and how it might continue to evolve.
On 16 September 2015, GC, The Legal 500 and Legal Business held a roundtable discussion and dinner for in-house lawyers on the topic of anti-corruption. The evening was held in association with Simmons & Simmons and took place at Cipriani in Hong Kong. The event was inspired by ‘Hunting Dragons’, the report co-produced by GC and Legal Business, which ran in the latter earlier this year.
Despite being released in 2006, Covering has never been more relevant to the diversity issues facing modern businesses. GC takes a look.
Failure to take bribery and corruption seriously can be a costly mistake. GC looks at methods employed by legal and compliance teams to keep enforcement regimes at bay.
GC explores what corporate counsel can do to further diversity – in their in-house legal department, the wider organisation, or throughout the business world. We pick the brains of general counsel across the globe about programmes they’ve pioneered or adopted to create a diverse workplace. In the first in a series of case studies, this issue we look at gender diversity.
GC speaks to Luis Alvarez, CEO of BT Global Services, about his thoughts on the legal department, his own role and how lawyers can get inside his head.
Julio Avalos, GC at open source software platform and hosting service GitHub, is a lawyer who has truly embraced the culture of his company. Now he is using this knowledge to question the way legal functions, with interesting results for his relationship with the business.
GC talks to founders of legal departments in Asia about the risks and rewards of drawing up the blueprint for an uncharted legal function.
At the end of April, GC, in association with recruitment consultants MLegal, gathered together a range of Bay Area corporate counsel for drinks, dinner and discussion about talent management.