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The lack of diversity within corporate and in-house legal teams is becoming increasing prevalent, highlighted by a groundswell of support to have all minority groups fairly represented. The legal profession has been slow to redress this imbalance and we wish to explore ways that we can support companies achieve more diverse in-house legal teams. Taylor Root recently hosted a...

Mills & Reeve is a top 40 UK law firm and the only law firm in the UK top 100 to have consistently grown profit and turnover each year since 2002. The law firm has appeared in the Sunday Times’ Best 100 Companies to Work For list for 16 years’ running. David Varnham is a partner in the firm’s banking and finance team based in Birmingham. He has extensive experience of acting...

When advising in-house lawyers in relation to new job opportunities, we are frequently asked about the prospects for progression. This is rarely an easy question to answer, and this highlights the importance of in-house lawyers proactively managing this aspect of their career. There are several considerations to be mindful of including: how long to stay in a role; how to avo...

On the 6th August, Georgia Morgan-Wynne chaired a webinar session specifically for junior lawyers who want to find out more about moving in-house. Our fantastic panel who have themselves moved on qualification in to in-house positions included Lucy Burch, Legal Director at eBay, Raj Sharma, Chief UK Counsel at Coloplast and Charles Olisanekwu, Associate Legal Counsel at Inte...

Squire Patton Boggs is an award-winning global law firm, working across 20 countries. The firm has operated from Birmingham city centre for more than 100 years, representing many of the region’s leading businesses and highly familiar with the nuances of the local business environment. Roy Grist is a well-regarded Legal 500 rated partner in Squire Patton Boggs’ Financial Serv...

We are delighted to present Taylor Root’s Company Secretarial Salary Guide for 2020 covering FTSE listed Companies, Financial Services, Professional Services and the Not-for-Profit sector. Taylor Root has been producing salary guides for many years and our data and market information is relied upon by Company Secretaries, General Counsels and HR Teams across all sectors of i...