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 discuss the resilience of youth, changing attitudes to national debt, the humanisation of the workforce and...

Economist Vicky Pryce discusses the long term economic impact of leaving the EU, while Brexit expert Clare Francis of Pinsent Masons and trade expert David Thorneloe examine companies' responses. Trade expert Anna Jerzewska fills us in on some of the practicalities of trade across a customs border.

We hear from Alastair Campbell, former communications adviser to UK prime minister Tony Blair, and Sean Elson of Pinsent Masons about operating under pressure while dealing with depression; and from Philip Aiken of Barclays and Kate Dodd of Pinsent Masons about practical measures companies can take, and about creating a ten point charter to help them do better.  The workplace and mental health are closely intertwined – work can be the cause of problems, and issues can express themselves in...

All eyes have been trained on the life sciences industry as the world hopes for medical solutions to the Covid-19 pandemic. As pharmaceutical and medical device companies have collaborated at a speed and intensity never seen before, we ask if there are lessons that can be learned for how collaboration can work in more normal times.

The latest phase of the Black Lives Matter movement has helped to clarify for a lot of people how pervasive and powerful structural racism is. It affects organisations even when they are not overtly racist.  We explore how this is likely to affect your business, and what steps you can take to address it, and look at the duty of all of society to educate themselves on the nature of racism, with organisational psychologist John Amaechi, Pinsent Masons lawyer Alexandra Aikman and diversity and...

The climate crisis has become a major business issue – companies are changing their strategies because of its impact and because of their growing desire to be part of the solution, not the problem. GCs have an opportunity to lead their organisation's thinking on the opportunities and risks the crisis presents. We hear how from leading lawyers and a chief executive-turned climate champion.  With Alastair Morrison, Madeleina Loughrey-Grant and Philippe Joubert. 

Richard Foley of Pinsent Masons and Lisa MacCallum of Inspired Companies discuss how having a purpose changes a company and makes it more resilient when crisis hits.

We look at the impact of coronavirus on five vital sectors of the economy (Advanced Manufacturing & Technology, Energy, Financial Services, Infrastructure and Real Estate) and hear from Pinsent Masons experts about what actions companies are taking now to survive and thrive. 

How can GCs help their companies prioritise coronavirus issues? And what can we learn from past crises to help make better decisions in this one?

More and more companies are re-thinking what they are for, rejecting pure shareholder returns as their sole reason to exist. Where does that leave GCs and the legal function? Richard Foley of Pinsent Masons and Lisa MacCallum of Inspired Companies discuss GCs as the conscience of a company.

Clear thinking on big issues to sustain GC growth and development.