The Centre for Legal Leadership’s latest webinar, hosted in conjunction with Thomson Reuters, focused on strategies for progressing your career. This post highlights the key talking points from the session.
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June 16, 2022
Strategies for progressing your legal career
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June 13, 2022
Flex Trainee: helping to create a more diverse, representative and socially mobile legal profession
Flex Trainee is our scheme for trainee lawyers, designed to help them and the legal industry at large take full advantage of the opportunities offered by the SQE. The scheme was launched in 2021 and is currently well into its second cohort of Flex Trainees. We designed the entire scheme from the ground-up to help create a more diverse, representative and socially mobile legal profession.
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Episode 96 of the Hearing is now available.
Devoted listeners to The Hearing will be familiar with the work of The Chancery Lane Project, which helps lawyers use contracts to fight climate change. This episode is about using a similar concept to tackle modern slavery and other human rights abuses.
Becky speaks to Olivia Windham Stewart and Sarah Dadush about their work with the American Bar Association to help improve the human rights performance of contracts and supply chains. They talk about how supply contracts often inadvertently increase human rights and environmental risk, by being too onerous.
This episode shows how you can be an ally to this cause, and make a meaningful difference, simply by reviewing the supply contracts used by your firm.
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Last month I attended my first Alternative In-house Technology Summit. One of the aims of the event is to help GCs and heads of legal operations build the internal business case for technology investment by gathering success stories from their industry peers. Here are some themes that resonated with me.
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Several Bills included in the Queen’s Speech are likely to be of significance to in-house lawyers. They may also be interested in a bribery case brought by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) and recent developments in narrative reporting.
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We are delighted to invite you to attend a webinar, co-hosted by The Legal 500, Thomson Reuters and Mayer Brown on 7 June 2022 at 3PM BST, “The new legal frameworks for vertical agreements in the EU and UK – spotlight on key topics”.
The main legal framework in the European Union governing distribution and supply agreements (Vertical Block Exemption Regulation (VBER)) expires at the end of May 2022. The European Commission has recently published the revised VBER together with accompanying guidelines. In parallel, the UK has adopted a new Vertical Agreements Block Exemption Order (VABEO) and the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has issued draft guidance. Both sets of rules will enter into force on 1 June and will result in significant changes to the current legal framework in the EU and UK.
Some of the changes offer more flexibility to suppliers/brand owners and retailers, but in some instances the changes may lead to stricter rules.
In this webinar, Thomson Reuters and Mayer Brown will moderate a discussion with Johannes Holzwarth from the European Commission and Ricardo Araujo from the CMA on the practical implications of the main legal changes arising from VBER and VABEO, the areas where the regimes will diverge and the points on which market players may require more guidance in the future. The webinar will among other focus on the following topics:
- Dual distribution and information exchange – what are the absolute no-go’s and what kind of information can be exchanged between suppliers and resellers?
- Dealings with online intermediation services and hybrid platforms – are there any legal safe harbours left?
- Selective distribution and online restrictions – do suppliers have more flexibility now
- Exclusive distribution – is exclusive the new selective?
To attend, please register here.
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May 26, 2022
An upside-down legal panel for technology companies
The 50 portfolio companies in the FTSE 100 Halma group operate in highly regulated niches across the medical, safety and environmental sectors. Their cutting-edge technologies save lives and solve some of the key problems we face in the world.
Halma’s growth strategy depends on the companies’ ability to develop new technologies and offers for their customers, and to explore solutions with the potential to disrupt their existing business models. Our founder-led companies are in turn reliant on legal advisors who understand their technology, tailor their guidance to their size and deliver fast support that allows them to achieve their growth ambitions.
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On 27 April 2022, Practical Law presented a webinar, Recent Russia Sanctions and Related Considerations: How Practical Law Supports In-House Counsel. The panelists provided a summary of the key economic and trade sanctions and export controls imposed on Russia and Belarus by the US and the UK in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the resulting crisis. It also included a demonstration of the Russia Sanctions and Related Considerations Toolkit and how this toolkit can help in-house counsel guide their clients through the business interruptions caused by the war in Ukraine.
You can download the recorded webinar here. (Please note that the recording may take a few minutes to download.)
Click here to download the webinar slides.
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May 17, 2022
Smarter Working Week: how to make efficiency gains
I recently moderated a discussion as part of The Lawyer’s Smarter Working Week that focused on how lawyers can improve their existing processes to help them work more efficiently.
The group were driven by a desire to prove their legal teams as proactive value creators and use technology to provide metrics that demonstrate their value to key business stakeholders. For some, the difficulty is not the technology implementation itself, but the change process, getting the team on-side and making the shift to new processes.
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May 12, 2022
Episode 10 of The Construction Briefing podcast
Episode 10 of The Construction Briefing podcast is now available.
The Building Safety Bill received Royal Assent and is now known as the Building Safety Act 2022. We discuss when we expect its provisions to come into force (starts at 1:12). We also look at two adjudication enforcement judgments: Bexheat Ltd v Essex Services Group Ltd [2022] EWHC 936 (TCC) (starts at 24:40) and Van Oord UK Ltd v Dragados UK Ltd [2022] CSOH 30 (starts at 37.25).