GC Issue: Summer 2018

On the brink of yet another set of elections this year, an era of uncertainty appears likely to continue in Italy – an unsettling prospect for the business community and in-house counsel alike.

In his latest column for GC, David Burgess, Publishing Director at The Legal 500, considers the role of legal operations within the wider legal community.

Lucia Giancaspro shares the challenges of establishing a compliance function and reorganising the legal team to fit within an expanding global business.

GC chats to MP Darren Jones about leaving behind his in-house role at telecoms giant BT to take up a seat in the UK Parliament.

GC reports on trends in the fast-evolving and cutthroat European aviation market.

A group of esteemed current and former GCs have begun work to increase the representation of African Americans in the in-house community through the newly developed Black General Counsel 2025 Initiative.

RPC partner Jeremy Drew took a group of GCs through the critical decisions facing a general counsel as a crisis unfolds, at The Legal 500’s 2018 Enterprise GC conference.

Fast-evolving industries and tech-driven disruption means modern jobs can defy categories. We find GCs coping… and sometimes thriving.

Dominic Grieve, Member of Parliament for Beaconsfield and former Attorney General for England and Wales, hosted GC at 1 Parliament Street for an exclusive conversation, covering the current state of Brexit negotiations, the potential impact on the legal profession, as well as an insight into the current state of Theresa May’s administration.

Heading the legal function in Germany for Chinese tech powerhouse Huawei Technologies, Jan Bredehöft talks about the GC’s role in both cybersecurity and culture.