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In-House Counsel & The Board - Top Tips
Sooner or later, most in-house lawyers are going to interact with the Board of the company they work for......
Guide for in-house lawyers on outsourcing legal services
This Lexis®PSL Practice Note is intended for in-house lawyers considering outsourcing some legal services to external......
5 Things the Community Think About Secondments
As part of March’s theme of ‘Friends on the Outside’, we spoke to our community about secondments. Because how better......
Bridging the gap between innovating & lawyering
There’s never been a better time to be part of the legal innovation community. The community is full of excitement......
How to develop the General Counsel & law firm relationship
How do you really get the most out of the relationship between internal and external counsel? Where do you start?...
Exploring the what and why of #FairRedundancy
On 29 October 2020, we launched #FairRedundancy – a campaign which we believe will make redundancy programmes across the...
How easyJet brought the O Shaped Lawyer to life
The O Shaped Lawyer was formed in early 2019 when Dan Kayne (General Counsel Regions) noticed a worrying trend whilst......
Adventures in Venture - Three Things for Lawyers to Consider
If you’ve joined a high growth business as an in-house counsel, working on successive financing rounds is likely to......
Redundancies: A guide for in-house lawyers
No business wants to consider making redundancies. However, thanks to the ongoing pandemic & the current economic climat...
Wellbeing – The art & science of working with your brain
There are lots of wellbeing tips being produced at the moment – and that’s for good reason. We’ve devoted so...
Legal Innovation: use Microsoft Office better before jumping
Legal innovation is often equated with one of the incredible new AI tools that are unveiled at tech events on...
Four lessons for a young lawyer from Ivy Wong
Ivy Young’s career story, with its twists and turns and being written in this very moment, is one that should...
Never waste a crisis — a recap on Crafty Counsel’s COVID-19
Before COVID-19, every single video we had published on Crafty Counsel had been created by our film-makers in studio...
What can the legal world learn from healthcare?
“We’ve got a small number of people in charge of a lot of people’s lives and you can have a...
Power + responsibility: Three perspectives on GCs
Is there more that General Counsel can or should be doing to shape the environment around them? We recently published...
9 ideas to consider in legal for the new 'school term'
Some six months ago, Crafty Counsel released a series on Legal Ops FOMO, focused on stripping away the myths and...
