To celebrate International Women’s Day, we’re excited to announce Diversity In Leadership, a brand-new series of our General Counselling podcast!

Over the coming months, host Holta Loku will be talking to a range of top lawyers about their remarkable careers, with a hope to inspire lawyers from all backgrounds towards leadership roles.

In the first episode, Holta talks with two lawyers at the absolute top of their game. 

They are:

• Lauren Livingston - general counsel at CVC Capital Partners 
• Seema Shah - partner at Simpson Thacher

Both these brilliant women hold leadership roles at two highly-respected firms; in this episode, they’ll be telling us how they got there, and the challenges they faced along the way.

We also touch upon how the legal space has become more representative in the last 10 years, what it can do to improve in the future, and the advice our guests would give to their younger selves.

A must listen - stream here today!

Welcome back to General Counselling Podcast Ep.8

In this week's episode, we speak with John Goldfinch, Partner at Milbank & Francesca Segurini, Director of Structured Finance and Securities, Legal at European Investment Bank.

We recorded this episode at the end of last year, but now seems the perfect time to share with you. In this episode, we’re covering the topic of Structured Finance, the public perception of it and its importance to the economy as well as any potential changes to keep an eye on in 2021 + more!

Bringing leaders from private practice together with the cream of in-house, to share insights on business leadership, career stories, and the key issues from across the legal landscape.

Our goal is to help in-house and private practice teams work better together. It’s something Tom and the team at Montresor Legal are hugely passionate about and an area where there is always room for improvement.

Welcome back to General Counselling Podcast Ep.7

Bringing leaders from private practice together with the cream of in-house, to share insights on business leadership, career stories, and the key issues from across the legal landscape.

This episode we recorded at the end of last year, which seems the perfect time to share with you in January 2021. We speak with Joanne Theodoulou, General Counsel at Simply Business, and  Adele Martins - Employment Partner at Magrath Sheldrick LLP. We focus on a subject that both Joanne and Adele are passionate about and that is being Health and Wellbeing advocates. 

Our goal is to help in-house and private practice teams work better together. It’s something Tom and the team at Montresor Legal are hugely passionate about and an area where there is always room for improvement.

Welcome back to General Counselling Podcast Ep.6

Bringing leaders from private practice together with the cream of in-house, to share insights on business leadership, career stories, and the key issues from across the legal landscape.

In this week's episode, we speak with Geoffery Bailhache - MD, Blackstone Group and James Scott - Private Equity Partner, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.

Our goal is to help in-house and private practice teams work better together. It’s something Tom and the team at Montresor Legal are hugely passionate about and an area where there is always room for improvement.

Welcome back to General Counselling Podcast Ep.5

Bringing leaders from private practice together with the cream of in-house, to share insights on business leadership, career stories, and the key issues from across the legal landscape.

In this week's episode, we speak with Zoe Kimberley - Area Counsel, Region South & CRR at AbbVie. From in house we speak with Sarah Cowlishaw Partner at Covington & Burling LLP about Life Sciences. 

Our goal is to help in-house and private practice teams work better together. It’s something Tom and the team at Montresor Legal are hugely passionate about and an area where there is always room for improvement.

Welcome back to General Counselling Podcast Ep.4

Bringing leaders from private practice together with the cream of in-house, to share insights on business leadership, career stories, and the key issues from across the legal landscape.

In this week's episode, we speak with Tim Pearce - Partner at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld and Alex Mitchell General Counsel at LMR Partners. We discuss all things in the Alternative Investment market from insights into Brexit to how things have gone during COVID this year.

Our goal is to help in-house and private practice teams work better together. It’s something Tom and the team at Montresor Legal are hugely passionate about and an area where there is always room for improvement.

Welcome to General Counselling Podcast Ep.3

Bringing leaders from private practice together with the cream of in-house, to share insights on business leadership, career stories, and the key issues from across the legal landscape.

In this week's episode, we speak with Martin Anayi - Chief Executive Officer, Guinness PRO14 Rugby

Each episode will cover Martins's experience in the legal sector and ultimately his decision to leave law firms behind for business. 

Welcome to General Counselling Podcast Ep.2

Bringing leaders from private practice together with the cream of in-house, to share insights on business leadership, career stories, and the key issues from across the legal landscape.

In this week's episode, we speak with Tobi Rufus - Executive Director & Senior Counsel Legal Division at Goldman Sachs and Jat Bains - Finance Partner at McFarlanes.

Each episode will cover a particular area of the legal sector. This week we discuss the extremely hot topic of Diversity and Representation within the legal sector. 

Welcome to General Counselling Podcast Ep.1

We bring leaders from private practice together with the cream of in-house, to share insights on business leadership, career stories and the key issues from across the legal landscape.

In Montresor Legal’s new podcast, General Counselling, our Founder Tom Balmer will be exploring career stories, business leadership and key challenges across the legal sector.
Our goal is to help in-house and private practice teams work better together. It’s something Tom and the team at Montresor Legal are hugely passionate about and an area where there is always room for improvement.

In our first episode, we speak with Anthony Waller - Corporate Partner, Technology at CMS UK and Ben Robson - Legal Counsel at Draper Esprit. 

Each episode will cover a particular area of the legal sector. This may be individual areas of practice, or an issue with particular relevance to the industry. The format will involve a senior lawyer from an organisation alongside a senior lawyer from Private Practice in a related field.