Brain Food For General Counsel

We're just popping in briefly to say if you enjoyed Brain Food For General Counsel you might be interested in a new fortnightly news and analysis show from the same team - The Pinsent Masons Podcast. You'll find it wherever you get your podcasts or at https://www.pinsentmasons.com/other/podcast

Find out why AI has taken such a huge leap in capabilities; what kinds of tasks it can now perform, and what decisions in-house legal teams will have to make about how they structure and resource their operations.

Businesses are facing an unusually strong set of challenges, from supply chain disruption to problems retaining staff to energy costs and the risk of insolvency. Pinsent Masons experts Clare Francis, Ronan Lambe, Murdo Maclean and Steve Cottee help you plot your way through difficult times.

Our global financial infrastructure was built to create national interdependency and avert future wars in Europe. We hear why it is time to use it to direct the world's financial firepower at tackling the climate emergency.

Businesses depend on solid, reliable property rights, but what if the right to property was less concrete than we all think? And how can we change the way we think about property and ownership to gain business advantage?

The COP26 meeting in Glasgow is described as ‘the last best chance’ to tackle the climate emergency. Will the world’s governments agree how to limit climate damage? What is the role of business? And how does it all work anyway?

The pandemic has been what psychologists are calling a 'global trauma', affecting many of us deeply. Employers face challenges as we return to face to face working, and must adapt to take account of people's experiences.

Smart contracts have the potential to deliver live, real-time business intelligence to companies and whole economies, helping transform legal functions into engines of strategic thought. But will it happen any time soon, or will adoption be slower than anticipated, like other elements of legal AI?

We all commonly misunderstand what numbers are telling us. Learn from the experts how to spot statistical sleight of hand and make the best use of data, 'the new oil'.

After a bruising 2020 when the coronavirus pandemic and its attendant lockdowns caused sickness, anxiety and economic uncertainty for many, we look ahead to 2021 and ask seven business, law and politics experts for a reason to be cheerful, something we might have overlooked that will help us to believe in better times ahead. Alastair Campbell, John Amaechi, Vicky Pryce and others