On Tuesday (22 May) I spoke at a panel debate organised by Vodafone general counsel Rosemary Martin (pictured), focusing on innovation, diversity and the law, having been invited to give the hard-nosed view on how the profession operates. The slightly more diplomatic members of the panel were RSG’s Reena SenGupta, Dr Louise Ashley of Cass Business School and lawyer and consultant Stephanie Haladner, with Thomson Reuters EMEA general counsel Daragh Fagan putting the public speaking skills of this print journalist to shame with expert chairing.
Anyway, for the four readers into this kind of thing, this is the short introductory speech I gave before the Q&A debate. The flipside of the coin – what the profession does right – is covered in the leader column in Legal Week published today (25 May).
