Value through Proactive Prevention

‘Proactive Prevention’. It seems an odd concept the idea that prevention - the negation of something - is supposed to be something proactive. Yet this is the life and work of any decent in-house lawyer because, contrary to many lawyers working in private practice, the job is to prevent litigation and legal difficulties in need of rectification, rather than to live of it. The negation of the life supply of private practice work from your client is the purpose of an in-house lawyer’s responsibility because he or she is hired to reduce legal costs but at the same time protect the company.

Rating: Medium

Tags: management, legal, operations, law, risk, prevention

GCRC Sports Panel - Social Media

In the fifth 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 manage the use of social media in their organisations. The discussion mostly focussed on whether an organisation’s guidelines or rules focussing on social media should be prescriptive or more like advice. Karena Vleck, Head of Legal and Governance at the RFU, and GCRC Sports Panel Chairperson, noted that the RFU’s social media policy is intended to be more advisory.

Rating: Medium

Tags: social media, legal, in-house, law, lawyers, sport, panel, discussion

GCRC Sports Panel - Managing a Legal Disaster

In the third 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 manage a legal disaster. The discussion began with question of what a legal disaster actually is, as differentiated from the prior topic of managing a PR disaster.

Rating: Medium

Tags: gcrc, sport, panel, discussion, operations, management, legal, law

GCRC Sports Panel - Managing a Significant Change

In the fourth 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 manage a significant change in their organisation. 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. The GC Research Club fosters collaboration and sharing among our community of in-house lawyers.

Rating: Medium

Tags: legal, in-house, change, operations, management, sport, gcrc