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A high-voltage dispatch on the business of law and the future of legal careers. Read in 5 minutes.

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GC Series: Sandra Tsao
№20
Sep 17, 2026·5 min read

GC Series: Sandra Tsao

The GC role looks remarkably different when your clients have stripes. At first glance, Sandra leads what appears to be a familiar in-house function. Then someone mentions transferring endangered okapis from Europe as part of an international breeding programme or the legal implications of transporting threatened species across international borders and suddenly "business as usual" starts to sound like artistic licence. Yet the real story isn't just about wildlife.

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Partner Series: Laura Uberoi
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Private Wealth FinanceSep 10, 2026·4 min read

Partner Series: Laura Uberoi

The future has become remarkably impatient. Waiting for money to arrive now feels almost old-fashioned. If you've sold a business but won't receive the proceeds for another three years, why wait? If a football club knows broadcasting revenue is coming next season, why not borrow against it today? If a satellite will generate income for the next decade, why shouldn't it fund itself before it even reaches orbit? Modern finance has developed an extraordinary ability to pull tomorrow into today. The question isn't what an asset is anymore. It's what lawyers can do to define them as such.

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Partner Series: Bruno Bertrand-Delfau
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SecondariesSep 3, 2026·4 min read

Partner Series: Bruno Bertrand-Delfau

The safest way to build a legal career is to specialise in something everyone already understands. Bruno's done rather well by doing the opposite. When he started his career, secondaries didn't exist. Private equity itself was still in its infancy. The market that would eventually define his career hadn't yet become a recognisable practice area. Twenty-five years later, he's still working at the edge of it. Only now, the market is more difficult to ignore.

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Partner Series: Will Normand
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Asset ManagementAug 27, 2026·5 min read

Partner Series: Will Normand

What’s the point of us? This sounds like an existential question familiar to many lawyers. For law firms, it’s a strategic one. That question sits behind everything: how you train juniors, what work you chase and how you respond to AI. There’s no single right answer. But the answer needs to be honest. A firm that knows what it stands for can attract the right talent and clients. A firm that tells a compelling story disconnected from reality might attract people initially but eventually they'll leave for somewhere that suits them better. Law firms have become obsessed with short-term metrics. If you’re focused on beating last year’s numbers it’s difficult to plan for the next 10 or 20 years. Answering that question may determine who’s left standing.

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Partner Series: Russell Warren
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TaxAug 20, 2026·5 min read

Partner Series: Russell Warren

The most valuable person in a lawyer's network may be someone who can't give you work yet. They might be a trainee. A junior associate. Someone sitting across the office who'll leave in three years and disappear into a company you've never heard of. At the time, none of this feels particularly important. There are emails to answer, deals to close and presumably, a client somewhere expecting results. Russell's spent enough time in private practice to see the flaw in treating relationships as transactions. They're people whose careers are moving, usually in directions you can't predict. That makes the long game rather more interesting.

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