Who do you think you are? | The in-house lawyer's mindset
Why your mindset is probably behind the kind of in-house lawyer you are.
Our great leader: unraveling the process of choosing the right candidate for the top job | Leadership and business
GC talks to rising star in business theory Gautam Mukunda, Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior at Harvard Business School, whose recent research looks at the way leaders are chosen in politics and business and comes up with some surprising results.
Opening up to new partnerships | Collaborative working at Novartis
Don Tapscott’s Macrowikinomics (co-written with Anthony Williams) highlighted the groundbreaking step taken in 2007 by Novartis of sharing its type 2 diabetes research online. GC catches up with Felix R. Ehrat, Novartis Group General Counsel, to find out more about the practicalities of open collaboration.
GC Roundtable: Mapping the future GC, Houston | GC Roundtable: future GC role
In association with MLegal, GC gathered a number of leading in-house counsel in Houston to consider where the role of the general counsel is heading, along with that of their legal team.
Let’s talk business: part one | Returning to law after business
MasterCard’s Tim Murphy discusses his return to legal after ten years in business roles.
The promised land? Big data and the in-house lawyer | Big data and in-house lawyers
GC looks at big data analytics and what it means for in-house teams and their businesses.
GC Powerlist: Turkey | GC Powerlist
With the economic miracle behind them, Turkish businesses now face more challenging times. But there are also opportunities to be seized, according to honourees of The Legal 500’s GC Powerlist: Turkey.
Playing to your strengths: building diversity of thought into business | Leadership, development and personality profiling
Leaders at Wyndham Worldwide talk us through its investment in leadership and development, and the company’s use of personality profiling to identify and support talent across the business.
A different dynamic: managing an expanded legal team | Managing an expanded team
If you’ve been catapulted from the safety of a legal silo into the realm of department management, you’ll know that managing an in-house legal team can be a huge learning curve. But what if your department (and your remit) suddenly get a lot bigger?
Change partners: How can law firms and in-house departments promote race and ethnic diversity? | In-house and private practice diversity
Microsoft deputy general counsel (and first female lawyer) Mary Snapp and Covington & Burling’s London head of technology; Lisa Peets, discuss the diversity work that their organisations are doing, both separately and together.
