Bullying the Little Guy - Dubious Big Business Patent Lawsuits

An article in Forbes has highlighted how legal action has become a tool for big businesses to continue their suppression of upcoming start-ups, rather than allowing a level playing field.

Rating: Medium

Tags: operations, litigation, start-ups, corporate

Oxford Foundation for Law, Justice and Society: Gender Quotas for Corporate Boards

Mari Teigen, Research Director, Institute for Social Research, Oslo, Norway, gives a talk for the Gender Quotas for Corporate Boards and Democratic Legitimacy debate.

Rating: Medium

Tags: guest, oxford, law, gender, quotas, corporate, politics

StyleCounsel: Interview with Alice Darwall, Group GC at French Connection

StyleCounsel is the GCRC’s latest sector that will be focusing on luxury goods, retail and fashion law. This is our first exclusive interview with Alice Darwall, Group General Counsel at French Connection Group, who talks about ecommerce, globalisation and counterfeiting. (Voices recorded by external voice-over artists)

Rating: Medium

Tags: operations, fashion, stylecounsel, counterfeiting, globalisation, ecommerce

Local Authority Legal Teams Pursue ABS Model Amid Public Sector Cuts

Another year, another budget, and another debate about class. It was ever thus. But aside from ‘them working class lot’ with their bingo and beer, it appears that local authority legal teams are becoming more and more drawn towards privatization, such are the cuts being made to the public sector.

Rating: Medium

Tags: local, budget, abs, councils, operations

Oxford University Building a Business 2013/14: Protecting your ideas - intellectual property

This is a guest podcast from the Oxford University Building a Business Seminar Series. Ian Bingham, Senior Partner, IP Asset LLP, gives a talk for the Building a Business seminar series looking at intellectual property law and how new businesses can protect their ideas

Rating: Medium

Tags: guest, oxford, ip, intellectual property, seminar, business, operations

Data Should Inform, Not Shape, Decisions and Strategy

Sports and data was the theme of our last sports panel and it is also a topic that is gaining more and more coverage in both the business and the sporting world. Whether its the commercial data relating to sports, data relating to sports and gambling, or just data that can be used by sports teams and players to improve performance, it is clear that, as in other industries, data is infiltrating almost every aspect of the sporting world.

Rating: Medium

Tags: sport operations, data, strategy

Rise of the Freelance Lawyer

A report by an Ottawa industry analyst has confirmed a sentiment that has been bubbling across the global legal landscape - that of the emergence of the entrepreneur freelance lawyer. With outsourcing, automation and consultants already prominent in legal practice, a swarm of ‘freelance’ lawyers could potentially change the way in-house lawyers look for external counsel. Rather than going to your previous law firm, or traditional panel processes, GCs may instead be looking in new forms of freelance directories, virtual law firms or perhaps aspiring to the use of a new wave of celebratory entrepreneur lawyers.

Rating: Medium

Tags: recruitment, hr, legal, management, operations, law