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Corporate Counsel: Many corporate counsel still one step back from media front line

Corporate counsel are still shy of taking on a gatekeeper or spokesperson role with the media, despite calls to raise their profile. Michelle Madsen reports on the results of the latest The Verdict survey
5 minute read

International Edition

Citi to move part of London legal team to Belfast arm

Citi is to hive off a chunk of its London legal function to Belfast as the banking giant moves to implement its sweeping restructuring programme.
2 minute read

International Edition

Corporate Counsel: A winning formula

Building and retaining a winning legal team is getting tougher as private practice pushes up competition for the best recruits. Delegates at this month's Legal Week Corporate Counsel Forum addressed the issue. Michelle Madsen reports
6 minute read

International Edition

BBC promotes Ranyard to assistant general counsel

The BBC has promoted Peter Ranyard, currently a senior corporate lawyer at the organisation, to assistant general counsel. The appointment comes into effect from 29 May and will see Ranyard work with general counsel Nicholas Eldred advising on general legal and regulatory issues and helping to manage the BBC's legal team.
1 minute read

International Edition

Comverse general counsel fined and jailed for backdating share options

The former general counsel at technology company Comverse has been sentenced to jail for a year and a day for backdating share options-related crimes.
2 minute read

International Edition

Corporate Counsel: Has Eversheds found what corporate clients really want?

Eversheds has been investing in its client service. Michelle Madsen asks if its brand of partnering is a far of the future
7 minute read

International Edition

Ex-easyGroup GC adds new flavour to McDonald's team

McDonald's has hired its first-ever UK head of legal services, swiping ex-easyGroup general counsel Della Burnside from mobile phone trade group GSM Association (GSMA).
2 minute read

International Edition

Editor's Comment: Panel flannel

What is the point of law firm panels? There are, of course, several obvious reasons for their existence; among them handing clients more leverage to manage adviser relationships. Usually this occurs by handing out more work to a smaller number of larger firms. Whether panels have achieved this aim is debatable. But what is becoming harder to sustain is the view that the panel system has ushered in another of its supposed benefits: securing value for money and containing legal services inflation.
3 minute read

International Edition

EasyJet to launch first panel review as nationals land EasyGroup roles

EasyJet has announced that is to embark upon its first-ever panel review in the same week as it emerged that easyGroup has reviewed its advisers, naming mostly national firms on its new roster.
2 minute read

International Edition

Corporate Counsel: Private equity lawyers put risk avoidance top of the agenda

The growing threat of litigation and the effective management of external advisers were among the many issues sparking debate among general counsel at the Legal Week Private Equity Forum. Michelle Madsen reports
6 minute read

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