Interviews and Profiles - Page 6
'Change the rules, change the culture, change the lived experience'
A selection of influential women based in the UK reflect on the legal profession's diversity challenges and how to overcome them
Thom Browne trial win shows why luxury brands should understand the scope of trademark protection
Thom Browne trial counsel Robert Maldonado discusses how the luxury brand prevailed in Adidas's $8m infringement case
DLA Piper Italy: businesses can’t ignore NFTs and the metaverse
The metaverse will be a challenge and an opportunity for luxury brands, according to a group of DLA Piper Italy partners
Barbara Kolsun: 'I have worked with some of the best in the world of luxury. What more could I ask for?'
Legendary law professor and legal counsel on positive industry trends, concerning issues, advice and her career.
Pierre-Emmanuel Perais: 'how a brand personalizes with technological features and processes is paramount'
Linklaters partner discusses his New York Summit panel, the importance of technology for brands, industry trends and working across cultures.
‘Take every opportunity as if this is your breakthrough moment’: a barrister’s journey from Tower Hamlets via the Magic Circle
Kawsar Zaman on mentoring’s crucial role in improving social mobility within the legal profession
Hilary Jochmans: 'Fashion is a major economic driver the world over'
PoliticallyinFashion founder talks about her work and why brands should engage in activism in advance of Luxury Law New York presentation on 2 November
'Structurally the profession needs a reset': First Hundred Years' founder on the lack of diverse leaders
Dana Denis-Smith reflects on her life and career as a journalist, lawyer, entrepreneur and diversity campaigner
'I was trying to over-compensate for being different': Baker McKenzie's global marketing director on the importance of inclusion
Alessandra Almeida Jones reflects on her early struggle for a sense of belonging and the role marketers can play advancing diversity in law
‘Tiny changes can have a massive butterfly effect’: Clifford Chance's UK inclusion head on her D&I story
Nina Goswami discusses her life and career ahead of judging GLP’s first Women and Diversity in Law Awards
‘Everyone’s been excluded': Accenture Legal's global diversity head on the power of empathy
Annabel Dumbell reflects on her life and diversity work ahead of judging GLP’s first Women and Diversity in Law Awards
‘There needs to be more change in the profession… and it’s not happening quickly enough’
Rachel Chan, a barrister at 42 Bedford Row, discusses her social mobility advocacy ahead of judging GLP’s first Women and Diversity in Law Awards
‘We are still stuck with many women leaving the profession early’
Former Simmons & Simmons senior partner Dame Janet Gaymer discusses her life and career in the legal profession ahead of judging GLP’s first Women and Diversity in Law Awards
'Who are you with the most unpronounceable name?' Zepz's GC on her life and career in a changing profession
While attitudes are changing, argues Lara Oyesanya, the legal profession must work harder to tap a 'huge diverse talent pool'
Rafi Mottahedeh: from law firm to company and back to private practice
More often than not, when a lawyer moves in-house their career trajectory remains there. But not always. Former Cargill in-house counsel Rafi Mottahedeh recently returned to private practice as head of the transactional tax practice at San Francisco-based law firm Shartsis Friese. Anne Gallagher asks him about the move back to private practice.