GC Issue: Winter/Spring 2019

GC takes a look at the growing US phenomenon of enshrining public benefit goals into for-profit corporate charters.

In the second edition of ‘Horizons’, Eversheds Sutherland partners, Marc Meryon and Thomas Player, review the increasing reputational threat to corporates posed by well-organised protests and sophisticated campaigns.

As television audiences continue to fall, new media is showing unprecedented adoption and market penetration. GC speaks to some of the key figures behind this transformation to learn if traditional media is facing a new Gutenberg moment.

After 10 years at Juniper Networks, Scott Weber took a chance – joining his old boss at Silicon Valley start-up Lumina Networks. Tasked with assembling the legal function for a company on the precipice of major funding, Weber talks the challenges of moving from an established entity to a new entrant.

For a general counsel position at any major company, a continued commitment to law is generally requisite. But chance took Ironclad GC Chris Young from basketball to a key role in Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, in preparation for GC stints at two venture-backed tech upstarts.

Nishat Ruiter, general counsel of TED Conferences, shares her unique and intuitive take on compliance training.

In the first partnership between GC magazine and Akerman, at the US-Latin America Legal Summit 2019, we spoke to leading industry counsel to distil both the challenges and opportunities of being a US-domiciled counsel responsible for Latin America.

In an increasingly digitised world where data is as valuable as it is prolific, balancing the rights of the individual with corporate interests is a nebulous task for businesses of all sizes. But what about when the entity seeking that data is the government?

MOSAIC is an initiative pairing in-house counsel with more experienced lawyers for mentorship and career guidance. In December of 2018, MOSAIC joined to launch a partnership initiative, and renew the call for better mentorship in the legal profession.

Having joined Enjoy straight from law school as it’s sole legal counsel, Von Hoene set about building both a team and her own skillset. Now CLO, she reflects on that unusual journey.