Webinar: How to measure the value-add of the legal team
Watch this free webinar for how to maximise team efficiency.
Webinar: Staying relevant in changing times – Vets vs Fintechs
This free to attend webinar aims to compare and contrast the longevity and experience of traditional firms with the adaptability and risk-taking attitude of Fintechs, while considering the role of the legal team and the optimal position to be in.
Webinar: The role of lawyers in product development – putting the human back into it
This free to attend webinar looks at how legal teams can change their nature and get more involved in product development and innovative projects, while also being able to demonstrate that return on resource investment.
Webinar: Climate change – surviving the next crisis
Watch this free to attend webinar and join the discussion on how to leverage the Coronavirus lessons in order to tackle the climate crisis.
Webinar: Changing the culture of financial services
In this free to attend webinar speakers discuss whether now is the perfect time to revise and develop your firm’s culture, given this climate where everything is forcibly changing, starting with the behaviours and mindsets that characterise an organisation.
Webinar: The business of our customers – the developing responsibility
Watch this free to attend webinar to discuss what customers want from Financial Services institutions during an economically strained climate and the impact it will have on the way we deliver legal services.
[On-Demand] Webinar: Investing during periods of financial stress
If you’re looking for expert insight into the importance of defining risk within your investment planning, and the controllable factors when building your portfolios, watch the on-demand video for our ‘Investing during periods of financial stress’ webinar.
[On-Demand] Webinar: Disputes, Compliance and Conduct Management
Watch this webinar for advice on practical and legal considerations for when preparing and rolling out compliance programmes.
[On-Demand] Webinar: Managing your wealth in a period of uncertainty
Managing your wealth in a period of uncertainty Sensible and actional steps to protect your savings and investments Wednesday 6 November 2019, 11:00 am GMT | VIEW ON-DEMAND VIDEO On November 6 The Lawyer in association with Netwealth will be hosting an interactive 60-minute webinar on how to manage your wealth in a period of uncertainty, […]
[On-Demand] Webinar: General Counsel Barometer 2019 Survey Results – legal management and technology trends
Watch this webinar if demonstrating value and improving the efficiency of your legal department is at the top of your agenda.
[On-Demand] Webinar: How much do I need to retire?
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[On-Demand] Webinar: Managing GDPR without breaching GDPR
Join this webinar to learn how to effectively take inventory of and categorise the data you hold, and the steps you should take to limit your exposure to a breach.
The 60 second interview: CC’s grad expert on how best to empower trainees
In our latest 60 second interview Clifford Chance’s Graduate recruitment specialist, Yasmina Kone, talks to The Lawyer about how the firm is devising new and innovative ways to attract candidates.
The 60 second interview: Ed Fletcher on the challenges facing lawyers in the new world of technology
Fletchers Solicitors CEO talks to The Lawyer about the importance of ‘un-learning’ in the new world of technology.
The 60 second interview: HSF’s Rigotti gives advice to the next generation
Herbert Smith Freehills CEO Mark Rigotti talks to The Lawyer about the skills that law firms should be teaching graduates.
The 60 second interview: Just Group’s GC on why culture eats strategy for breakfast
Just Group general counsel Joanna Nayler speaks to The Lawyer ahead of her session at the In-house Counsel as Business Partner Conference, in association with EY, about becoming an agent for change in the business. What is your one prediction for the progression of in-house lawyers? The role played by in-house lawyers is becoming ever […]
The 60 second interview: Post Office GC on what businesses want from their lawyers
Post Office general counsel Ben Foat talks to The Lawyer ahead of his workshop at the In-house Counsel as Business Partner Conference, in association with EY, explaining the key considerations for transforming the legal function. What are the top three things businesses expect from their in-house lawyers? A strategic business partner that sees the bigger picture and […]
The 60 second interview: Linklaters’ Gideon Moore on supporting colleagues who think differently
In our latest 60-second interview, Linklaters managing partner Gideon Moore talks to The Lawyer about developing cognitive diversity within the firm and the impact flexible working is having on traditional routes to partnership.
Magic circle firms triumph at The Lawyer Awards 2019
Clifford Chance has been crowned Law Firm of the Year 2019 after triumphing at The Lawyer Awards last night. The firm scooped the coveted award after a stellar 12 months defined by a swathe of activity relating to technology and people management. Combining those two areas, it launched the profession’s first ‘lawtech training contract’ leading […]
Who was on the shortlist for The Lawyer Awards 2019?
The full shortlist for The Lawyer Awards 2019, in association with Travelers, has been released, celebrating the best of private practice, in-house and the Bar. This year, over 60 judges from across the industry debated entries from law firms, companies and barristers chambers. Our judging panel includes BT general counsel Sabine Chalmers, Rosenblatt CEO Nicola […]
How do the FCA and PRA differ in enforcement?
Claire Carroll, partner at Eversheds, gives her opinion on the current hot topics in risk and litigation, and what the main differences in approach are between the FCA and the PRA. Watch this video interview taken at The Lawyer Managing Risk and Litigation event.
The core ingredients of a successful information governance programme
Sonia Cheng, managing director of FTI Consulting’s Information Governance Privacy and Security talks explains what core ingredients make a successful information governance programme, and the three emerging governance risk areas that corporations face in 2020.
Should every lawyer learn code? Staying current in your organisation’s culture
“The most successful general counsels are those that can adapt and thrive,” says EY head of law UK&I Philip Goodstone, in our video interview, taken at The Lawyer’s In-house Counsel as a Business Partner event this October.
What tech trends pose the greatest challenges to law firms – Lighthouse’s John Holliday
In this 4-minute video interview, Lighthouse’s John Holliday gives his insight into what technology trends are causing the most angst for lawyers, and what challenges they pose for legal, compliance and data privacy stakeholders.
Are you a “player”? How to future-proof yourself in the digital age
This year’s keynote speaker at The Lawyer’s Business Leadership Summit was the “practical futurist” and former IBM global managing partner Andrew Grill, who had a simple message: “Disrupt yourself or you will be disrupted”. Grill set the tone immediately in his keynote, and for the Summit as a whole, by finding out how “digitally curious” […]
The preferred business models of the future – and what law firm leaders think of them
The most recent Managing Partner’s dinner – hosted jointly by Lexis Nexis and The Lawyer – catered for 18 managing partners from law firms within the 50-100 bracket of The Lawyer’s UK Top 200, including those in London and various regions across the UK. Over the past decade, this section has proven to be one […]
Live blog: The Lawyer’s Business Leadership Summit 2019
It’s The Lawyer Business Leadership Summit today and we’ll be blogging throughout the day with updates on the event.
Ex-IBM head Andrew Grill gears up as keynote for the Business Leadership Summit
How can law firms get ready for the change brought about by an ever increasingly digital business environment? Former IBM global managing partner Andrew Grill will take to the stage at this year’s Business Leadership Summit to explain how law firms can tackle the challenges posed by new operational models and, at the same time, […]
Business Leadership Summit 2019: Legal tech (the Spice Girls way)
Are law firms missing a trick when it comes to the use of technology? The first panel session at this year’s Business Leadership Summit will suggest that the answer to that question is ‘yes’.
The future takes centre stage at The Lawyer’s first-ever Marketing Leadership Summit
The inaugural The Lawyer Marketing Leadership Summit, held on a sparkling June day at the Runnymede on Thames Hotel and Spa, gathered together more than 70 of the leading minds in marketing and business development (BD) across the legal services industry to future gaze and network. The event brought together some of the most perceptive, […]
The future of law firms – by the people who run them
At the end of May, 20 leading managing partners gathered at 1 Lombard Street in the City of London, with the future of law playing a key part of the conversation. LexisNexis, which ran the debate with The Lawyer, coincidentally has as its tagline, “The Future of Law. Since 1818”, with the landscape drastically changing […]
The Lawyer Awards 2019: the sets vying to win Chambers of the Year
London is rich in talent at the bar, and the sets shortlisted for this year’s Chambers of the Year category have shown considerable acumen in growing their businesses. Commercial and employment set 11KBW has seen significant financial growth over the past five years, with a particularly strong performance in 2018 when it predicted an increase […]