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Today’s General Counsel is under constant pressure to deliver high levels of legal work with stable or declining budgets. At the same time, the legal teams and departments that they manage are becoming more involved with decision-making and increasingly integrated into the corporate structure of the business.

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Talent is everywhere, access is not: Russell Johnstone on purposeful trusteeship

  • Posted September 9, 2026
Contents Share For Russell Johnstone, trusteeship is where senior commercial judgment meets social purpose. With a career advising some of the UK’s most prominent consumer, media and technology businesses, including as General Counsel for BT’s Consumer division, he now brings board-level judgment, regulatory fluency and commercial discipline to three organisations united by a powerful idea: […]
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What does a data centre lawyer do? Understanding one of the legal market’s most elusive skill sets

  • Posted September 3, 2026
Contents Share Key insights What is the remit of a data centre lawyer? It is a question we are being asked with increasing frequency by C-suite leaders preparing to make their first General Counsel hire, by existing in-house legal teams assessing where their capability gaps lie, and by lawyers themselves trying to understand how to […]
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Public, private or PE-backed business: what’s the difference for a GC in Europe? 

  • Posted June 26, 2026
Contents Share Key insights   The title may stay the same, but the role of a general counsel can look very different depending on ownership structure. A GC operating within a listed multinational faces a very different set of expectations to one supporting a founder-led private business or a private equity-backed portfolio company.  Across Europe, these differences are becoming more pronounced as organisations […]
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The modern GC: culture, conduct and the judgement no one trains you for

  • Posted June 11, 2026
Contents Key insights The role of the general counsel is evolving in ways that are not always captured in formal job descriptions. While much attention has been given to the expanding scope of the role and the increasing regulatory burden, the more fundamental shift is subtler. Many of the most challenging aspects of being a […]
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