Business Thinking in Practice for In-House Counsel (eBook)

Taking Your Seat at the Table

Catherine McGregor (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
423 Seiten
Globe Law and Business Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78742-327-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Many of the innovations and ideas that legal teams need to embrace - such as those relating to project management and use of technology - have already evolved within the wider business environment. Despite this, many general counsel and other legal leaders report that they feel unprepared to tackle key business challenges and concepts. Business Thinking in Practice for In-house Counsel: Taking Your Seat at the Table takes a practical look at key concepts from influential business theory and illustrates how these are applicable to managing or working in an in-house legal department. Topics covered include purpose, culture, talent and innovation, all of which intersect to provide the structure and framework for legal teams to create a competitive edge. Each chapter features an interview and case study with a general counsel and/or legal team to demonstrate how business concepts can be used in-house most effectively. The author, Catherine McGregor, has engaged with the in-house legal market for many years as a journalist, consultant and commentator. During this time she has built close relationships with leading general counsel around the world and has observed first hand how the role of general counsel has changed and continues to change. Business Thinking in Practice for In-house Counsel is packed with lots of real-life examples and makes essential reading for any general counsel or senior in-house lawyer seeking to develop their business skills and maximise their team s success.

Inhalt

Acknowledgements 7

Introduction 11

Part I: Purpose 23

1. Why are we here? Why defining purpose matters 25

2. Bigger than you and me: purpose and values 31

3. Simon Sinek: start with why 37

4. Purpose in practice 45

5. Purpose versus… purpose? The challenge of wearing two hats 55

6. Case study: setting a meaningful and sustainable purpose – The Crown Estate 65

Part II: Culture 83

7. Why culture? 85

8. What creates a good corporate culture? 97

9. A sense of purpose and culture creation 109

10. Case study: the Pearson legal department – from Project Roadmap to Ethos 117

Part III: Leadership 135

11. Leading versus managing 137

12. The need for self- leadership 143

13. Lawyers and leadership 149

14. Servant leadership: lessons from the military 169

15. Leadership case studies 181

Part IV: Talent 201

16. The need for talent 203

17. In-house lawyers and the definition of talent 213

18. Putting talent to work: how lawyers work and how that is changing 221

19. Whose talent is it anyway? Diversifying the workforce 231

20. Futureproofing: redefining talent and redefining expertise 239

21. Future talent: Schlumberger’s marriage of people, process and technology 247

Part V: Creativity

23. Creative cultures: freedom and discipline 269

24. Debunking the myths of creativity – or why anyone can be creative 279

25. Divergent thinking 283

26. A framework for thinking differently: legal design thinking 295

27. Tears in the rain: the lawyer/non-lawyer conundrum 301

28. Case study: playing with your head up – the Royal Bank of Scotland’s outsourcing, technology and IP legal team 305

Part VI: Collaboration 319

29. Working together 321

30. Internal collaboration 331

31. External collaboration 343

Part VII: Innovation 353

32. Innovation: starting with the right question 355

33. Theories of innovation 361

34. Why legal teams need to innovate – and how they can do so 373

35. Innovation strategy 379

36. Case study: DXC Technology – a new blueprint for legal teams 391

Conclusion 405

About the author 411

Index 413

About Globe Law and Business 423

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.8.2020
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Berufs-/Gebührenrecht
• Schlagworte: Business Thinking in Practice, In-House Counsel
• ISBN-10: 1-78742-327-1 / 1787423271
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78742-327-5 / 9781787423275