The changing role of general counsel and legal service providers

English

Past event
May 17 OF 2018 from 09:00 AM to 12:30 PM
Barcelona ESADEFORUM. Pedralbes Avenue, 60-62

The ESADE Alumni Law Club and the ESADE Law Department 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
Raimon Tagliavini (MBA 09 | Lic&MD 01), Board member, ESADE Alumni Law Club
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
Pilar Peláez, Head of Legal and Compliance, Global Health Benefits Europe, Cigna International Markets.

Moderators:
Maria José Esteban, Lecturer, ESADE Law School
Eva Argilés, ACC country representative (Spain), General Counsel, Applus





For further details:
clubderecho@alumni.esade.edu