Why CEOs should reset their relationship with their lawyers during COVID-19 - a podcast by Ciarán Fenton

There is anecdotal evidence that some early stage and rapid growth organisations have decided they "no longer need a General Counsel" relying instead on more junior and potentially more biddable in-house lawyers or more arms-length external law firms; that CEOs and senior executives are not inviting in-house lawyers to crucial meetings and finally that some lawyers are pulling back from their usual habit of checking that their advice is being followed because they feel such probing is not welcomed.

Based on my and other consultants' experience in working, writing and speaking with and about lawyers and their relationships with CEOs, their boards and teams I suspect that the actual situation is far, far, worse than the anecdotal evidence suggests.

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