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Leadership and Management Challenges of In-house Legal Counsel

The first book in Australia which is wholly dedicated to the in-house legal profession, Leadership and Management Challenges of In-house Legal Counsel (Benny Tabalujan, Editor, LexisNexis Australia, 2008) contains chapter contributions from highly respected and experienced in-house counsel and consultants from Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and Hong Kong.

Leadership and Management Challenges of In-house Legal Counsel covers a host of practical issues faced by in-house lawyers in corporations as well as government organisations.  It commences with an introductory chapter by Peter Turner (Australian Corporate Lawyers Association) and examines topics such as transitioning into an in-house counsel role; managing workload; professional development of in-house counsel; how to strategically lead a legal team; measuring the performance of legal teams; and insights into a typical day of leading a global legal team.

Written in a readable style combining Australian and Asia Pacific perspectives, this book will appeal to those leading large or smaller legal teams, those transitioning in-house, as well as other professionals interested in the in-house legal role. For orders, please contact the LexisNexis Australia customer service desk on 1800 772 772.

Chapters

  1. Setting the Scene: Challenges for the In-house Counsel Role – Peter Turner (CEO, ACLA)
  2. Transitioning from External Counsel to In-house Counsel – Chua Lee Ming (General Counsel, Government of Singapore Investment Corp)
  3. Managing In-house Counsel Workload – Benny Tabalujan (Director, IKD and adjunct Associate Professor, Melbourne Business School)
  4. Professional Development for In-house Counsel: What’s Next? – Jil Toovey (Director, IKD)
  5. Strategic Leadership for the In-house Legal Team – Will Irving (Group General Counsel, Telstra)
  6. The Government In-house Legal Role: Similarities, Contrasts and Challenges – Bruce Brown (Special Counsel, Commonwealth Department of Finance & Deregulation)
  7. One Day of Leading a Global Legal Team – Edith Shih (Head Group General Counsel, Hutchison Whampoa)
  8. Evaluating the Performance of In-house Legal Teams – Benny Tabalujan (Director, IKD and adjunct Associate Professor, Melbourne Business School) & Christopher Lloyd (Professor, Melbourne Business School)
  9. Commerciality: Partnering with Internal Clients – Debby King-Rowley (Principal, Burlington Consulting) & Kirsten Dale (Consultant, IKD)
  10. Professional Ethics: In-house Counsel as In-house Conscience – Kirsten Mander (General Counsel, Sigma Pharmaceuticals)
  11. What In-house Counsel want from Law Firms – Ronald F Pol (Director, Team Factors)