Rachel Jacobs is Group General Counsel for Springer Nature, a leading academic and educational publisher serving researchers, students, teachers and professionals around the world. Rachel is passionate about education and research, having studied Environmental Sciences at undergraduate and worked as a teacher in Nepal before becoming a corporate lawyer and moving in-house in the publishing…
Bayer is a global enterprise with core competencies in the Life Science fields of healthcare and agriculture. In Switzerland, Bayer has around 1,600 employees from more than 60 nations. The Swiss HR Operations team is responsible for Employment Contracts, Change of Contracts, Promotion Letters and additional HR documents which are requested by the HR Business…
Our collaboration was set up to help in-house teams with digital transformation and to rethink their legal operating models. Underpinning this is a shared approach and way of thinking – so you’ll always be able to make the most of our combined strength. 1. By lawyers, for lawyers Our people think like lawyers but…
In our latest podcast, Dom talks to Christophe Frèrebeau, the co-founder and CEO of Della, a European tech company based in Paris and London whose mission is to democratise the use of AI. Della’s typical customers are legal departments who want more consistency in the way they manage their contracts, particularly as teams increasingly work…
We regularly speak to in-house GCs who see the benefits of adopting new technology, but they simply can’t get off the starting blocks. They’re faced with a myriad of confusing and often competing choices – the Legal Tech noise can be deafening. To help you find your way we, along with our new Legal Operations partner LOD, have explored some of the most…
Magle Chemoswed is a contract development and manufacturing organization based in Sweden. It serves companies in the pharmaceutical and medical device industry on a contract basis to provide services from product development to manufacturing. It has a strong track record of successfully bringing their own and customer products to market. Megi Medzmariashvilli, Legal Counsel at Magle Chemoswed, is…
SYKE is delighted to announce the appointment of Amanda Bradley to the role of Sales Director. Amanda will be responsible for developing the Sales and Marketing functions within SYKE to support the exponential growth of the business. The appointment follows the recent investment by LOD in SYKE to support the further growth and development of…
Olga V. Mack, CEO & Chairwoman of Parley Pro, a modern, (and truly!) collaborative and intuitive contract lifecycle management (CLM) platform that has pioneered online negotiation technology. Olga loves legal innovation and has dedicated her career to improving and shaping the future of law. She’s convinced the legal profession will emerge even stronger, more resilient,…
In this episode, I caught up with Agiloft’s new (ish) CEO, Eric Laughlin. He tells me all about the company’s recent $45m investment. Bootstrapped since its inception in 1990 and profitable, this is the company’s first round of external funding and will be used to accelerate its product development and expand its vertical and geographic…
One of the things I’m most proud of as the CEO at SYKE is being able to give young, gifted students a foot up onto the first rung of the career ladder. In the first of a series of blogs featuring some of our rising stars, I’d like to introduce you to Alfie Thackeray. Alfie is a legal engineer who has been with SYKE…