In June 2013, UK newspaper The Guardian and its US peer The Washington Post broke a story that changed the world. Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden had revealed the scale of mass surveillance by the US National Security Agency [NSA]. GC speaks to Gill Phillips, The Guardian’s director of editorial legal services, about the legal implications of making the story public in the UK.
GC gets the lowdown on market conditions in one of the world’s richest countries from GCs profiled in The Legal 500’s GC Powerlist: Switzerland.
Businesses must think collaboratively to achieve success in today’s – and tomorrow’s – networked world, says management guru Don Tapscott. We examine how his theories might apply to GCs.
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.
It’s a hot topic for any corporation that wants to avoid being splashed across the press… or dragged through the courts. We speak to GCs in the US, Asia and the UK to find out their top tips for avoiding the dreaded data breach.
How do you make that leap to the top job? Mike Fahey, former GC and principal at executive and board search firm RSR Partners, gives some valuable career tips.
How is the Celtic Tiger faring post-GFC? GC speaks to some of the leading
in-house counsel profiled in The Legal 500’s GC Powerlist: Ireland to find out.
GC looks at the emergence of alternative legal service providers in Asia Pacific.
GC discusses delegation, disruption and strategic input for cross-border legal teams over dinner with leading in-house and external lawyers in New York.
Moscow-based Maksim Arefiev is director of the legal service centre at X5 Retail Group and has worked in-house since qualifying as a lawyer. He chats to GC about his career in the Russian retail sector.
