GCRC Sports Panel - Managing a PR Disaster

In the second of the series of articles based on the discussions held at the first GCRC Sports Panel last month, we will be looking into how in-house lawyers interact with other departments to manage a PR disaster.

Rating: Medium

Tags: gcrc, legal, law, operations, in-house, sport, panel, pr, disaster, management

Managing Risk Across the Company

In-house lawyers help a company deal with risk, or more pertinently, the consequences of risks badly taken. But proactive/appreciated in-house lawyers do not just deal the legal wreckage of strategic mistakes made by the board, but they also involve themselves in the strategic thinking of the company in respect to risk management.

Rating: Medium

Tags: gcrc, legal, law, operations, in-house, risk, corporate, management

GCRC Sports Panel - How The Legal Team Can Add Value To The Corporation

GCRC Sports is the part of the GC Research Club that allows in-house lawyers from the sports sector to meet and discuss, at our panel events or online, the things that matter to them. In the first of a series of articles based on the discussions held at the first GCRC Sports Panel last month, we will be looking into how in-house lawyers can become more involved with their company‘s overall strategy.

Rating: Medium

Tags: gcrc, legal, law, operations, in-house, sport, panel, discussion, value, corporate

Using Data to Reduce Legal Spend with Ann Page

This is final part of Ann Page's celebrated article on smarter budgeting for the in-house counsel. A Top 100 Lawyer of the Year, Ann is perfectly placed to offer strategic coaching to fellow lawyers, as she has both delivered and received legal services. Her impressive CV over a 30 year legal career includes senior positions at companies/organisations as diverse as Citibank, Crest Homes, Next plc, National & Provincial (now Abbey) and The Co-operative Bank.

Ann Page is a published author (‘Managing External Legal Resources’) and has appeared on the professional services TV channel talking on this topic as well as speaking and writing on lawyers’ professional development. Ann has also been involved with the Law Society National Commerce & Industry Group for 15 years in a variety of roles and chaired it for 18-months.

Rating: Medium

Tags: in-house, finance, legal, budgeting, budgets, gcrc, operations

Using Metrics for Budget Discussions with Ann Page

This is part two of Ann Page's celebrated article on smarter budgeting for the in-house counsel. Ann Page is a published author (‘Managing External Legal Resources’) and has appeared on the professional services TV channel talking on this topic as well as speaking and writing on lawyers’ professional development. Ann has also been involved with the Law Society National Commerce & Industry Group for 15 years in a variety of roles and chaired it for 18-months.

A Top 100 Lawyer of the Year, Ann is perfectly placed to offer strategic coaching to fellow lawyers, as she has both delivered and received legal services. Her impressive CV over a 30 year legal career includes senior positions at companies/organisations as diverse as Citibank, Crest Homes, Next plc, National & Provincial (now Abbey) and The Co-operative Bank.

Rating: Medium

Tags: budgets, budgeting, finance, in-house, legal, operations, gcrc

Forecasting Budgets with Ann Page

This is part one of Ann Page's celebrated article on smarter budgeting for the in-house counsel. A Top 100 Lawyer of the Year, Ann is perfectly placed to offer strategic coaching to fellow lawyers, as she has both delivered and received legal services. Her impressive CV over a 30 year legal career includes senior positions at companies/organisations as diverse as Citibank, Crest Homes, Next plc, National & Provincial (now Abbey) and The Co-operative Bank.

She is a published author (‘Managing External Legal Resources’) and has appeared on the professional services TV channel talking on this topic as well as speaking and writing on lawyers’ professional development. Ann has also been involved with the Law Society National Commerce & Industry Group for 15 years in a variety of roles and chaired it for 18-months.

Ann is Head of Business Affairs for the Institute of Paralegals, has trained with the Coaching Academy and also holds a HNLP certificate in coaching as well as being an NLP Master Practitioner.

Rating: Medium

Tags: operations, legal, in-house, budgeting, finance

Predictive Coding to allow greater in-house control of e-Discovery?

e-Discovery has long been dished out by in-house lawyers to external service providers specializing in it. However, much is being written saying that in-house counsel need not immediately reach for the phone when it comes to e-Discovery. With corporations increasingly looking to reduce legal spend, they are looking to in-house lawyers to take up more responsibility in respect to e-Discovery.

Rating: Medium

Tags: gcrc, legal, law, operations, in-house, e-discovery, predictive coding, budgeting, spend

Bankers, Not Just Lawyers, Must Learn to Embrace Risk Again

Risk. I wrote about the importance of risk management to the in-house role earlier this week and noted how lawyers should be less obstructive and better managers in terms of managing risk - risks have to be taken in order for companies to make profits, but not all risks will make profits. And of course, reckless lending by the banks is now bemoaned as one of the causes of the ongoing recession.

Rating: Medium

Tags: gcrc, legal, law, operations, in-house, banking, finance, risk

Is Hourly Billing to Blame for Inequality in the Law?

That inequality persists in the law - and in businesses in general - is a well known and often documented opinion. That hourly billing contributes to the distrust of the legal profession from clients and civilians is also well documented. But Marlisse Silver Sweeney’s article (The Female Lawyer Exodus) in The Daily Beast was a particularly interesting read because it discussed both in conjunction with each other, as she mused that hourly billing is in fact a reason for the persistent inequality in the legal profession.

Rating: Medium

Tags: gcrc, legal, law, operations, in-house, billable hour, hourly billing, inequality

Email Archiving - Avoiding that Sinking Feeling

“Where is that email gone?”

A common mini-crisis in the lives of most people, but it can be particularly pertinent for in-house lawyers. Emails are documents and as such they can be drawn upon as evidence in court and you might be called upon to find particular emails promptly following data requests.

Rating: Medium

Tags: gcrc, legal, law, operations, in-house, email, organisation, knowledge management

In-house Lawyers can be the Conscience of the Company

The general public consensus following the recession was that the greed and recklessness of bankers, which ultimately caused the recession in the eyes of many, was an unethical stain on capitalism as an ideology and as the basis of our society.

Rating: Medium

Tags: gcrc, legal, law, operations, in-house, corporate