Start-up, scale-up or established player, the way in which financial services firms conduct business has always been influenced by customers, explains Growth Street GC Simon Coles ahead of his session at the In-house Financial Services Conference. Have customers changed the way financial services conduct business? Looking at how financial products and services are created, deployed and […]
Zurich Insurance GC, Edward Bridge talks to The Lawyer ahead of his session at the In-house Financial Services conference.
LendInvest GC Ruth Pearson talks to The Lawyer ahead of her session at the In-house Financial Services conference.
Fletchers Solicitors CEO talks to The Lawyer about the importance of ‘un-learning’ in the new world of technology.
Herbert Smith Freehills CEO Mark Rigotti talks to The Lawyer about the skills that law firms should be teaching graduates.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
“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.
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.
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 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 […]
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 | REGISTER TODAY 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, focused […]
It’s The Lawyer Business Leadership Summit today and we’ll be blogging throughout the day with updates on the event.
Watch this webinar if demonstrating value and improving the efficiency of your legal department is at the top of your agenda.
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, […]
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 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, […]
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 […]
