In the field of diversity and inclusion, I am passionate about promoting diversity and inclusion in the legal industry. I launched the Chambers Women in Law initiative in 2009 to celebrate the achievements of women lawyers. At GC magazine and The Legal 500, I produced a series of reports on diversity and inclusion that were described as some of the most useful in the field. They looked at the role of in-house lawyers both in transforming their own organizations and in creating change across the legal industry. Catherine now runs her own business and works as an independent consultant for law firms and legal departments around the world. His work focuses on thought leadership and consulting, based on the key practical challenges for modern legal services and the associated opportunities for consultants that understanding their clients can bring. I have many years of experience in legal publishing, originally as editor-in-chief at Chambers and Partners, the legal publisher. One of the axes of my work in this area has been the analysis of the practical steps involved in creating diversity and inclusion initiatives. I have also developed a number of events and workshops that address diversity and inclusion in the legal industry. After Chambers, she spent a year at Lawdragon, an American legal magazine.
There, she created a product called Insights, which focused on key trends in a practice area of both lawyer and client, providing more expert and advanced analysis of leading law firms and lawyers in a practice area than traditional directories. Their website is under www.catherinemcgregor.co.uk My career over the past few years has focused on strategically working with law firm clients and developing practice-oriented content to support their goals outside of technical legal requirements. Catherine has many years of experience in legal publishing, originally as Editor-in-Chief at Chambers and Partners. Their task was to assume the management and editorial supervision of all the publications and events of the chambers. She was also responsible for corporate strategy at Chambers and Partners. I currently work with a number of law firms, in-house legal departments and legal media organisations, including as an ambassador for Global Leaders in Law, the elite network group for general counsel owned by ALM, the world`s largest legal media group. Today, I work as an independent consultant for law firms and legal departments around the world. My work focuses on the practical challenges for modern legal services, in-house lawyers and their businesses and the associated challenges and opportunities for their advisors that understanding their clients can bring. In addition, I am the editor-in-chief of Skaicre, a community specializing in general counsel and real estate lawyers. She has a long history of advocating for diversity and inclusion in law.
She was editor-in-chief of Diversity & The Bar, the magazine of the Minority Corporate Counsel Association, the leading nonprofit promoting inclusion and diversity in the U.S. legal profession. I am passionate about the role of the client in determining the future of legal services. I developed GC Magazine to focus on the intersection of business and management issues in relation to the role of the modern global general counsel. I am also a long-time advocate for diversity and inclusion in law. CM: Yes, the new generation of advocates general sees their roles in a very different way. Law firms need to understand this and ALL of their challenges, not just strictly legal challenges. Law firms need to be more creative and collaborative. The transactional point of view of comics and marketing, broken by a goal “We are the best / We will hire ourselves”, will not disappear immediately, but it is increasingly considered obsolete and unsuitable for the goal. CM: The biggest opportunity is to be able to collaborate more collaboratively and creatively with their clients, especially with in-house legal teams. The way law firms operate and how they add value to clients is changing exponentially.
This offers the greatest opportunities, but also the greatest challenges. Right now, very few law firms really listen to their clients and do so in a client-centric manner. I was born in London and got a bachelor`s degree and a doctorate in literature and theatre. Before embarking on legal publishing, I was a lecturer at universities in the UK and the US, including the Museum of Fine Arts School in Boston. My research focuses on post-war British drama, Jacobin drama and the art of identity performance. She writes, lectures and gives workshops on economic thinking and lawyers` skills as well as on inclusion and diversity. My last role before starting my own business was as the first editor of GC Magazine and as editor of The Legal 500 and Legalease`s internal advocacy initiatives. I was responsible for strategic collaboration with in-house legal counsel and the provision of selected high-level content and related events in the Legal 500.
LFMS: Why do you think it is important to organise a conference that brings together business development and marketing decision-makers from law firms across Europe to explore current trends and issues? In December 2016, mcGregor was removed from the Australian of the Year honour list at his request. She said the awards are a “farce” and that she regrets accepting one. [28] McGregor also argued that the prizes are used by activists. [29]. LFMS: If you look at other professional services firms, is there a single innovation that you think law firms should emulate? McGregor was for a time the boss of Kaleidoscope Australia, a non-profit organization focused on promoting and protecting the rights of LGBTI people in the Asia-Pacific region. [32] However, in September 2016, McGregor was dropped as a godmother by Kaleidoscope Australia for its criticism of the Safe Schools program. [33] [34] [35] In May 2018, McGregor stated that she was wrong to oppose the Safe Schools program. “This is a great program that saves lives. I should have been a supporter from the beginning.
I regret not being so. Trans youth need an ally. I could have helped, and I didn`t, and I regret that. [36] McGregor made his transition public in November 2013, becoming the most senior transgender person in the Australian Defence Force at the time. [13] Catherine McGregor AM is a leading Australian transgender author, commentator and former Officer in the Australian Defence Force. [4] Since 2011, McGregor has been a cricket writer for The Spectator,[17] a cricket commentator for The Australian[18] and the Australian Financial Review,[19] and the author of a book, An Indian Summer of Cricket, published on 24 November 2012. [20] In a 2012 review, Tony Abbott, then Leader of the Federal Opposition, described the book as “the best type of sports book” for “those who think exercise can be a metaphor for life.” She described Morrison`s election as a “weak and conventional choice,”[26] a comment for which she later apologized. [27] CM: Innovation. Yes and no. It is often misunderstood and the focus is on the tools of innovation and not on the thought processes of innovation. I would like to highlight a greater need for creative thinking and real understanding of the problems and the holistic view of how they have evolved.