Issue 9 of Legal Leaders magazine

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By Emily McCormick

Community Focus Career Development1+

Don’t wait for the call: How in-house lawyers can build their own career pipeline

Most lawyers build their careers on the assumption that good work will speak for itself. Deliver consistently, keep your head...

By Emily McCormick

Community Focus Career Development

Setting senior legal hires up for first-year success

After 20 years in executive search with placements across three continents, Simon founded London-headquartered Pembroke Soame...

By Heather Kidd

Mindset and Development Career Development

At pace with purpose: How to build a legal function for a scaling tech business

When the UK went into lockdown in 2020, Hamraj Gulamali’s career plans took an unexpected turn. Recently called to the Bar, h...

By Heather Kidd

Mindset and Development Career Development1+

Technology the catalyst for a successful, satisfying career

Delphina Turner, the executive director of legal operations for Panasonic Automotive Systems America, LLC, has retirement in ...

By Heather Kidd

Mindset and Development Collaboration

Brilliance in chaos, struggle in routine

Sarah Clark is a straightshooter. She might be Chief Revenue Officer at The Legal Director, an impressive accomplishment, yet...

By Heather Kidd

Industry spotlight Career Development1+

Doing it her way: An unconventional journey to general counsel

Natalie Marshall’s career is proof that there’s no single pathway to success. By transforming challenges into resilience and ...

By Marija Barbarich

Industry spotlight Career Development

Bringing law to life in financial services

As Senior Legal Counsel at Pepper Money, Ramza Martin works in one of the most regulated and fast-moving industries in Austra...

By Heather Kidd

Industry spotlight Career Development

Helping to reshape the education landscape

The business of learning is big business. Nowadays, it’s possible to further one’s education almost anywhere on the planet. W...

By Marija Barbarich

Industry spotlight Career Development

Leading legal in the fast-moving tech world

For Ellen Howard, Lead Counsel of Product and Privacy (Privacy, Data Governance, Business Operations) at Canva, tech law isn’...

By Alison Meredith

Deep Dives AI1+

How to cope with AI anxiety

It’s confession time for our Legal Leaders columnist. Boldly going where most people who work in tech wouldn’t dare, she admi...

By Heather Kidd

Deep Dives Leadership

Winning trust and influencing people: The human side of legal

When Roger Rutkowski talks about legal operations, he doesn’t begin with metrics or systems. He begins with people. “Strong s...

By Heather Kidd

Deep Dives Career Development

The legal lessons of green energy growth

For Shahara Wright, accepting the role of General Counsel and Chief Operating Officer at Clean Energy Fund of Texas (CEFTX) r...

By Heather Kidd

Future Trends AI2+

Why AI is in-house legal’s new superpower

LawVu CEO Sam Kidd believes AI won’t fully replace lawyers, that instead it will liberate them. From grunt work to strategic ...

By Emily McCormick

Legal context is the new IP

According to Jan Roggen, VP of Growth at ClauseBase, law firms don’t sell text. They sell judgment grounded in context. And l...

Overcoming legal friction: How in-house counsel can build a better relationship with the business

Transforming a legal team into a modern in-house function, or being part of one, is high on the wish list of many in-house le...

Future Trends Business1+

Technology can help legal teams eliminate friction

For too long, in-house legal teams have lived with a reputation that no one really wants; the department that slows things do...

Collaboration Mindset and Development

EQ: The strategic skill every CLO needs

“We are on the cusp of a change – one that’s happening at a pace I’ve not seen in 35 years,” says Mark Smolik, Chief Legal Of...

By Heather Kidd

Deep Dives Leadership

Building the in-house legal engine room: From cost center to competitive advantage

Cory Sumsion and Greg Lorenzon have built and led multiple commercial engine rooms for well-known international businesses. T...

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