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Where are regional businesses struggling to hire lawyers?

Posted september 22, 2026

Contents Share Key insights The UK regional in-house legal market continues to evolve at pace. Over the last decade, businesses across Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds and other regional centres have invested heavily in legal capability, creating increasingly sophisticated legal functions outside London. While this growth has created exciting opportunities for lawyers, it has also intensified talent competition. Many employers are finding […]

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From General Counsel to CEO: how legal leaders can make the leap

Posted september 22, 2026

Contents Share Key insights Katherine Potter (Katie) has lead a public company as CEO and served as General Counsel in listed and private equity-backed businesses. She explains why the move from legal adviser to business leader starts long before the title changes, and what ambitious GCs can do now to prepare for it. For many […]

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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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How data protection leaders can hold the C-suite’s attention

Posted september 4, 2026

Contents Share Key insights Executive attention is the scarcest resource a data protection function competes for. Winning the C-suite’s attention is often the easy part: a regulatory deadline or a data breach naturally puts privacy on the board agenda without any effort from the Data Protection Officer (DPO). Keeping that attention is what allows privacy programmes to grow beyond a team of one. Across data protection recruitment, the […]

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How tech and life sciences companies should hire legal leaders for growth

Posted september 4, 2026

Contents Share Key insights High-growth companies rarely need the same legal function for long. A technology startup may initially need support with intellectual property and commercial contracts before enterprise growth, AI adoption or international expansion changes the legal brief. A life sciences company may move from fundraising and IP protection into clinical development, licensing and commercialization. The challenge is recognising when […]

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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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Real estate partner hiring in Birmingham law firms

Posted september 3, 2026

Contents Share Key insights While activity across the Birmingham legal market remains strong, one practice area continues to attract more partner-level investment than any other: real estate. According to publicly available data tracked by Pirical, real estate accounted for 20 lateral partner hires in Birmingham between July 2025 and July 2026, representing 24% of all […]

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Happy entrepreneurs shaking hands after meeting in a hallway among people in blurred motion.

Where are regional businesses struggling to hire lawyers?

Posted september 22, 2026

Contents Share Key insights The UK regional in-house legal market continues to evolve at pace. Over the last decade, businesses across Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds and other regional centres have invested heavily in legal capability, creating increasingly sophisticated legal functions outside London. While this growth has created exciting opportunities for lawyers, it has also intensified talent competition. Many employers are finding […]

Businesswoman sitting and traveling by train working on laptop. Business travel concept.

From General Counsel to CEO: how legal leaders can make the leap

Posted september 22, 2026

Contents Share Key insights Katherine Potter (Katie) has lead a public company as CEO and served as General Counsel in listed and private equity-backed businesses. She explains why the move from legal adviser to business leader starts long before the title changes, and what ambitious GCs can do now to prepare for it. For many […]

Professionals meet in person in an office

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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