GC Issue: Spring 2016

Can in-house lawyers effectively manage enterprise risk? GC investigates.

GC discusses economic and legal trends across the region with some of the leading in-house counsel profiled in The Legal 500’s GC Powerlist: Nordics.

GC talks to in-house leaders about coping with a far-flung legal team.

Keith Ruddock retired at the end of 2015 after an in-house career that spanned over 23 years – first at Shell, and then at global engineering company The Weir Group. GC collects his reflections for success in the in-house role.

In November 2015, GC, in association with Finnegan, gathered together IP counsel and GCs in London to discuss emerging trends and strategies in the changing world of intellectual property.

Why your mindset is probably behind the kind of in-house lawyer you are.

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.

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.

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.

MasterCard’s Tim Murphy discusses his return to legal after ten years in business roles.