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Joining forces with Thomson Reuters Institute (TRI)
2025 marks the fifth year of the successful webinar series 'Legal Leaders' in collaboration with Thomson Reuters.
This year we are taking this partnership further with the fantastic support of Thomson Reuters Institute.
Bill Josten, legal insight lead, will be coming on board to moderate the discussion between the great speakers for this series and share his insights supported by TRI's industry leading data. Bill is an experienced speaker and moderator, as well as regular author of and contributor to many of the key reports and bodies of research produced by the Institute.
His work focuses primarily on business of law issues related to management of corporate legal departments and law firms, including topics such as revenue management, cost control, outside counsel relations, practice management efficiency, and using data and metrics to tell the story of the legal department or law firm.
The Thomson Reuters Institute brings together people from across the legal, corporate, tax and accounting and government communities to ignite conversation and debate, make sense of the latest events and trends and provide essential guidance on the opportunities and challenges facing their world today.
As the dedicated thought leadership arm of Thomson Reuters, TRI's content spans blog commentaries, industry-leading data sets, informed analyses, interviews with industry leaders, videos, podcasts and world-class events that deliver keen insight into a dynamic business landscape. Visit thomsonreuters.com/institute for more details.
The first webinar of 2025, takes places on 5 Feb, discussing career development in-house – 'developing yourself and your team' with guest speakers, Chris Fowler COO of Legal, Governance and Corporate Affairs at Rio Tinto and Angus Haig, International GC.
Research from TRI ranks the following changes in-house counsel would like to see in the future:
1. Improved work-life balance
2. More time spent on engaging, judgement-based or expertise-driven work
3. Greater opportunity for continual skill-building
4. More innovation and willingness to embrace change
With 93% believing new/additional roles will be created [Source: Thomson Reuters Future of Professionals 2024]
The top 5 new roles required being: AI-specialist legal professional; Cybersecurity specialist; AI developer; AI Implementation Manager/Director; IT Support.
And the following human skills rising in demand:
- Adaptability to change (74% believe increasing demand)
- Enthusiasm for new technologies (74%)
- Efficiency (61%)
- Problem solving (54%)
- Creativity (53%)
- Resilience (52%)
- Communication skills (50%)
- Emotional intelligence (50%)
- Proactivity (50%)
- Negotiation skills (46%)
For details on this year's series and to register for the 5 Feb please click here.