Brain Food

Always on: the new abnormal?

Workplace stress and an 'always on' culture has become commonplace in the legal sector. As the impact of those strains on client relationships and employee wellbeing become better-understood, what can be done to promote more sustainable working practices?

Artificial Intelligence

AI is increasingly being represented the ‘fairy dust’ product that instantly delivers quick and accurate results. Behind the hype there are real possibilities for its application to law, but what do in-house teams – and their internal clients – need to know to bring AI to life?

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COP26: our last best chance

The most important climate meeting in six years is taking place in Glasgow as world leaders try to carve out deals that will be decisive for countries’ ambitions to keep global temperatures within some kind of control.

Data: your company’s hidden asset

Data can be a tool to achieve your goals, it can be a resource to exploit, it can even be a burden because it introduces regulatory risk. But the most successful companies will be those that treat data as an asset, something as tangible and important as cash reserves, inventory and intellectual property.

How the climate crisis will shape strategy

The climate crisis is a fundamental challenge to a growing number of businesses – either because it changes the value of their output or because it threatens their operations. A strategy must now take account of the climate crisis and GCs are well positioned to help navigate the issues involved.

Podcast for General Counsel

Helping senior in-house lawyers to steer the legal function through times of change and navigate the biggest issues facing business today.

Simpler contracts are the future

Faster contracts can reduce the cost and complexity of doing business with limited added risk, but for it to work companies will have to take contract simplification more seriously.

The future-proof GC

As the global competitive landscape is transformed by digitisation and globalisation, so too is the role of GC being redefined. How can today's GCs stay relevant for the future?

The project paradox

As legal projects, compliance programmes and strategic transactions become ever more complex and multinational in scope, a new breed of professional legal project manager is emerging to help manage the time, quality and cost paradigm.