Improved global collaboration, strategic C-suite management, increased diversity and inclusion—they're the type of goals any leader of an international firm would hope to advance.

Andrew Robinson, global chairman at Am Law 50 firm Norton Rose Fulbright, says he is taking a different approach to these critical issues within the industry.

Robinson, a partner in South Africa whose practice is focused on transport law, started his one-year term as global chairman on Jan. 1. He said those three items are among his broad goals for the firm, but he knows he will have to pivot toward other pressing issues that emerge less expectedly.