Year: 2014
Growing from Within
How thinking differently about recruitment can help in-house legal teams meet their biggest challenge… The challenges facing in-house legal teams are well-documented. An economic and regulatory environment-induced pressure to manage increasing workload, while containing or in many cases reducing resources.…Read More
LBC Wise Counsel/LexisNexis Grow your own – 10 advantages of trainee solicitors in an in-house legal team
In this article Paul Gilbert, Chief Executive of LBC Wise Counsel, explores the opportunity for in-house teams to recruit and manage trainee solicitors as part of the mix of resources within the in-house team. In 1999 I was General Counsel…Read More
Agency heralds revolutionary approach to solicitors training contracts
Fans say the scheme offers better value for law firms, without sacrificing quality for prospective young lawyers. Solicitors’ training contracts are viewed by many as arcane as the days when they were known as articles of clerkship — but a…Read More
Legal Business: In-house analysis “Lessons Learned”
While the in-house profession has come of age, the number of home-grown trainees remains tiny. Legal Business assesses whether in-house teams should lessen their reliance on law firm-schooled staff. Despite talk of radical changes to legal education and burgeoning in-house…Read More
