By Legal Week | September 14, 2011
"The idea first came about from the relationship the bank has with IBM, which provides significant IT and system support to us. In the course of setting up things with them we had a discussion with their general counsel about trying to get a better understanding of how their legal function operates and it went from there," Justin Moses explains. Moses, corporate counsel and general manager of the legal product and distribution department at the Australian banking group Westpac, is referring to an innovative series of what the company calls "benchmarking study tours" it has carried out in recent years. The bank's legal team has been visiting international companies in the US and UK to learn from other in-house counsel how they conduct their legal counsel functions and what ideas and structures the banking group can replicate back in Australia and New Zealand.
By Legal Week | June 29, 2011
Lawyers are becoming partial to business-speak – a nonsense language of jargon that many see as a way to shut out those who don't understand it. JDG Chambers tells it like it is
By Legal Week | June 29, 2011
While there remains some in-house scepticism about outsourcing, Caroline Hill finds that more clients are insisting their advisers innovate on costs
By Legal Week | June 29, 2011
Citi's Dan DiPietro and Gretta Rusanow survey current market conditions in the world's largest legal market
By Legal Week | June 29, 2011
How did a leading US law firm that was 'in court every day' lose its way? Julie Triedman charts the fall of a legal empire
By Legal Week | June 22, 2011
The Isle of Man is far ahead of the EU when it comes to online gambling licensing and regulation. As the EC begins to formulate rules for the sector across member states, Appleby's Claire Milne says the island is set to sustain its early advances in the fast-growing sector
By Legal Week | June 22, 2011
RBC Wealth Management's Joe Donohoe says trustees must take a strong stance when dealing with settlors or risk a bad relationship
By Legal Week | June 22, 2011
The Cayman Islands have brought in changes to the statutory merger law to expand its remit. Maples and Calder's Nick Evans and Charlotte Lindsten examine the new regime
By Legal Week | June 22, 2011
With Guernsey's laws on admissibility of hearsay evidence over a century old, an update was sorely needed. So, what has changed? Ogier's Simon Davies tells all
By Legal Week | June 22, 2011
Bruce Lincoln and Eloise Layzell of Mourant Ozannes use a recent Jersey insurance case as a cautionary tale for lawyers about the importance of careful attention to detail when preparing discovery...
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