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The ESADE Alumni Law Club and ESADE Law School are pleased to invite you to this talk entitled “The changing role of general counsel and legal service providers”

Globalization and digital technology have transformed the role of general counsel. This talk presents a series of studies that explain how general counsel has transformed the in-house legal function and its relationships with law firms. The studies include (a) interview-based studies of GC in the US, UK, Germany and Japan; (b) an analysis of make-and-buy decisions in Fortune-500 company legal departments; and (c) a survey of alternative legal service providers (ALSPs) in collaboration with Thomson Reuters.  Where does the power of general counsel come from? Internalizers vs externalizers: why do some legal departments rely on internal resources, and others on external resources? Future scenarios: the impact on law firms and alternative legal service providers (ALSPs).

Programme

9.00 am Registration

9.15 am Opening session and welcome addresses

George Chondrakis, assistant professor of strategic management, ESADE Business School (Ramon Llull University)   

9.30 am Keynote presentation

Mari Sako, professor of management studies at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford

10.15 am Coffee break and networking

10.45 am Panel discussion:

Mari Sako, professor of management studies at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford

Maurus Schreyvogel, chief legal innovation officer, Novartis

Christian Oehner, managing partner, PwC Legal Austria

Free event

Language of the event: English