Each year GCN selects various important themes. These themes are explored during the General Counsel NL Annual Conference and the General Counsel NL Fall Conference and in the General Counsel NL Peer-to-Peer groups. These themes will also be further elaborated on in the online General Counsel NL Newsletters and in the Diamond Box, GCN’s knowledge database, after login on the members-only page. Input for this comes, among others, from the members and the GCN Partners.
On the page ‘GCN Conferences’ you will find a retrospect of past conferences and detailed reports are published in the Diamond Box.
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The GCs role in safeguarding the company’s integrity and standards of right behavior
How should the company function where you are General Counsel? What moral standards are observed? And what role can or should you play as a General Counsel? Click here for the contributions of keynote speakers Muel Kaptein and Maryam Hussain.
The online GC NL newsletters were all about Global Trade & Corporate Sustainability.
The online GC NL newsletters were all about M&A & Brexit.
Cybersecurity & the Cloud: What General Counsel should know
On April 4th the Annual Conference took place in the Peace Palace in the Hague.
An extensive report can be found on the Diamond Box, behind the members-only login.
Please watch the aftermovie on our YouTube Channel.
Its All about Contracts
As the world is becoming increasingly complex, General Counsel are seeking ways to make contracts more accessible, the pursuit of their enforcement easier and their contents more accurate. Contracts are complicated enough to manage on their own, let alone when taking into account the increasing number of tools and methods available for your benefit.
Please watch the aftermovie on our YouTube Channel.
Here you will find the English summary of the GC NL Benchmark survey.
General Counsel often engage in high-risk conversations, particularly to manage legal risks. The underlying financial and reputation risks are usually high. And the GC usually deals with various stakeholders, such as the business, the board, regulators and – not least – the GC itself. Not infrequently, besides business arguments, emotions play a decisive role in important conversations. How can GCs best prepare for this and convert emotions into a powerful dialogue that speaks with conviction and makes an impact? This formed the core of the General Counsel NL annual conference on April 19, 2018.
The online GC NL newsletters were all about Litigation & Arbitration.
The General Counsel Fall Conference of October 6th focused on Crucial Conversations and the General Counsel Award 2017-2018 has been held.
A couple of the 2017 online General Counsel Newsletters will be on Diversity of Legal Teams, IP & Privacy (GDPR) – the articles are published in the Diamond Box.
The General Counsel Annual Conference 2017: “The Ultimate Legal Department: Legal Management: workflows, money, people & tools” was held on April 6th in Amsterdam. More info
GCN publishes every year 7 online newsletters. The articles are published in the Diamond Box.
On October 8, 2015 General Counsel Netherlands will organise a General Counsel NL Thememeeting on Personal Development and will hand out the General Counsel NL Award. More information about the General Counsel NL Award and the selection procedure will follow in due course.
More info behind the members-only login.
More info behind the members-only login.
More info behind the members-only login.
The Annual General Counsel NL Conference 2015 will take place on April 16th, 2015 in Amsterdam. Thema of the day is:
Reputation- and crisismanagement for General Counsel – balancing legal, compliance & reputation risks
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Smart Legal Sourcing
On October 9, 2014 we gathered to discuss the optimal way to insource legal service providers.
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General Counsel NL Benchmark Survey
In 2014 General Counsel Netherlands performed the first benchmark survey among General Counsel in the Netherlands. Almost a quarter of the approached General Counsel participated at the 2014 benchmark survey; which makes this survey the largest and most representative one ever held among General Counsel in the Netherlands.
GCN will repeat the General Counsel NL Benchmark Survey every other year and will therefore benchmark the results of 2014 with the data of the upcoming General Counsel NL Benchmark Survey of 2016.
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Leadership & Management was the theme for our General Counsel Theme meeting of June 19th, 2014.
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Everything the General Counsel should know about digitalization… from e-commerce, to cyber security, to the cloud and big data. During the General Counsel NL Annual Conference on March 27th, 2014 we were informed about the impact of digitalization on our practices and organizations.
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What is Legal Project Management and how can you use it to achieve – internal and external- operational efficiency re legal and compliance projects?
How do you manage compliance related themes as Fraud and Corruption and what is your specific role as General Counsel?
How to design your litigation and disputes trajects. How do you prepare as a GC for possible claims, mediation and litigation? An explanation about Dispute Design, the benefits of ADR and international developments in the field of e-discovery.
On 14 March 2013 Professor Richard Susskind talked at our General Counsel Annual Conference and discussed his book Tomorrow’s Lawyers.
Professor Richard Susskind predicts a future in which the legal operational practice will be interwoven with innovative technologies and where cooperation between GCs and a different more innovative way of cooperation with external service providers will be necessary to increase efficiency. Besides Susskind’s lecture, GCN presented technological and innovative initiatives which can boost the General Counsel’s performance.
