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The legal function is on every invitation list for the leadership programme. Ask how often it turns up and you get a small smile. The reason is not arrogance.
Category Archives: Corporate Legal
Corporate Legal, Time, Young Legal Minds
Does Working More Hours Make You a Better Legal Professional?
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Apr
Apr
Cognitive Performance Does Working More Hours Make You a Better Legal Professional? The legal profession has built its culture around the assumption that hours worked equals value delivered. Stanford research published in 2015 established that output flatlines after 55 hours per week and then falls. Here is what the evidence actually shows about overwork, cognitive […]
Corporate Legal, Pressure
In-House Legal Team Retention: What the Departing Practitioner Does Not Say
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Apr
Apr
In-House RetentionCorporate LegalGC LeadershipAttritionSouth Africa In-House Legal Team Retention: What the Departing Practitioner Does Not Say In-house legal teams lose good practitioners for reasons exit interviews consistently miss. What GCs need to understand about the real causes of attrition in a corporate legal function, and what can be done before departure intention forms. SC MS […]
Corporate Legal, Time
The Advisory Demand Problem: What Continuous Inflow Does to In-House Legal Performance
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Apr
Apr
In-House Legal PerformanceAdvisory DemandCorporate LegalGeneral CounselSouth Africa The Advisory Demand Problem: What Continuous Inflow Does to In-House Legal Performance In-house legal teams carry continuous advisory demand without the billing structure that private practice uses to create natural limits. What this costs the function, and what GCs need to address it in house legal. SC MS […]
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Compliance Function Performance Compliance Team Retention: The Attrition Risk That Is Not About Salary Compliance professionals rarely leave for the reason given in the exit interview. The real causes are cognitive, structural, and visible well before the resignation letter. What Chief Compliance Officers and Heads of Risk need to understand about the conditions that drive […]
Corporate Legal, Leadership in Law, Thinking
Corporate Legal Team Leadership: What the Boardroom Actually Requires
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Legal Leadership & Cognitive Performance Corporate Legal Team Leadership: What the Boardroom Actually Requires Corporate legal teams in South Africa face structurally impossible demands. Here is what genuine leadership in a corporate legal function requires, why it belongs to the whole team, and what happens when it is left to chance. SC MS Sonja Cilliers […]