In-house Online CPD

Join Alistair Drummond, Jennifer Talbot and Patrick Fulton of DLA Piper for insights tailored to the needs of in-house lawyers focusing on class action procedures.

Speakers:

Alistair Drummond, Head of Litigation and Regulatory Scotland, DLA Piper
Alistair Drummond has extensive experience in all aspects of Commercial Property and Commercial Lease disputes and Contentious Construction issues. He advises on wide ranging matters including dilapidations, keep open clauses, landlord’s consent, irritancy, lease interpretation, servitudes, enforcement of missives and agreements for lease, amongst others.

Alistair is recognised by his peers and clients alike as having comprehensive knowledge of his practice area and frequently lectures and presents on the subject.

Alistair heads up DLA Piper's Litigation and Regulatory practice in Scotland.

Jennifer Talbot, Senior Associate, DLA Piper
Jennifer Talbot is a litigator and regulatory lawyer, who has particular experience in commercial litigation, health and safety, regulatory and compliance matters. She acts for public and private sector clients, with a particular focus on the Industrials, Real Estate and Infrastructure, Construction and Transport sectors in the UK.

Jennifer regularly advises on commercial and property disputes, Judicial Reviews, Fatal Accident Inquiries, Health & Safety prosecutions and reparation actions; representing clients in Sheriff courts throughout Scotland. She also has experience in alternative dispute resolution, including mediation and arbitration.

Jennifer is recognised by clients for her responsiveness, and her commercial and pragmatic advice.

Patrick Fulton, Senior Associate, DLA Piper
Patrick Fulton has practised exclusively as a litigator and regulatory lawyer, with a wide practice covering both contentious and non-contentious matters across a number of sectors, including Financial Services, Real Estate and Industrials.

He is experienced in representing clients in the Scottish Courts, regularly drafting court documents and appearing in the Sheriff Courts or working with Counsel in the Court of Session.

Patrick has a particular interest in assisting clients in matters involving financial services and corporate insolvency.

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Join John MacKinlay and Catriona Melton of DLA Piper for insights tailored to the needs of in-house lawyers focusing on Covid-19 and contracts.

Speakers:

John McKinlay, Partner, DLA Piper and Convenor, Technology Law and Practice Committee, Law Society of Scotland
John McKinlay advises a range of businesses and public sector organisations on contractual, technology, and intellectual property matters. His core practice is negotiating commercial, outsourcing and technology contracts.

He advises clients in a range of industries, most commonly financial services, life sciences, and public sector, and regularly advises on projects which involve working across a number of international jurisdictions.

John heads DLA Piper's UK Intellectual Property and Technology practice.

Catriona Melton, Senior Associate, DLA Piper
Catriona Melton is an experienced intellectual property and technology lawyer who acts for private and public companies across the UK. She regularly acts for clients across a range of industries with particular experience advising clients in financial services, utilities and retail.

Catriona focuses on delivering pragmatic advice for clients on issues relating to commercial contracts, data protection and IT outsourcing.

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Join Mark Ferguson, Public Policy Manager at Pinsent Masons for insights tailored to crisis and reputation management for in-house lawyers.

Speaker:

Mark Ferguson, Public Policy Manager, Pinsent Masons
Mark has over ten years' experience working in public affairs and corporate communications across the UK. He leads the practice on crisis communications as well as advising businesses on political engagement, media relations and reputation management in highly regulated industries.

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Join Finlay McKay and Duncan Turner of CMS for insights tailored to employment and data risks in a remote environment for in-house lawyers. 

Speakers:

Finlay McKay, Partner, CMS
Finlay is a partner in the Employment team, representing clients at Employment Tribunals.

He has an excellent track record of successfully defending claims of discrimination. He is passionate about winning cases for his clients and is a tenacious litigator, presenting complex cases in a straightforward and comprehensible manner.

Finlay is always conscious to present his clients with a clear view on the strengths and weaknesses of their cases, always mindful of reputational and risk issues.

He also works to help his clients avoid Employment Tribunal. He has represented a wide spectrum of clients at judicial mediation and regularly advises on executive terminations achieving commercial solutions for his clients.

Commended for his “highly informed, commercially aware decision making” (Chambers UK), Finlay is trusted by his clients to give them practical advice on employee relations issues ranging from dismissals and grievances to advising on restructurings and harmonisation projects.

Duncan Turner, Partner, CMS
Duncan is a partner in the Technology Media and Telecommunications Team at CMS Edinburgh.  

Duncan specialises in information technology, intellectual property, data protection and commercial contracts.  His experience includes drafting and negotiating complex IT and commercial contracts, including outsourcing agreements, software development and licensing agreements and software as a service contracts.  Duncan also has extensive experience advising on the IT, IP and data protection aspects of M&A transactions.

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Join Colin Hutton and Emma Boffey of CMS for insights tailored to managing disputes with suppliers for in-house lawyers. 

Speakers: 

Colin Hutton, Partner, CMS
Colin Hutton has over 25 years' experience in dispute avoidance and resolution. He is dual qualified and advises on both English and Scots law matters, including litigations, arbitrations and mediations. He has significant experience working with energy and climate change and financial services sector clients. He also advises on shareholder disputes and disputes relating to corporate transactions, including misrepresentation, fraud and bribery issues.

Colin specialises in the project management of the dispute resolution process. He is a keen advocate of alternative dispute resolution and regularly uses mediation to effectively resolve disputes.  Colin is a member of the CMS Cyber Breach team and regularly leads on assisting clients with managing data breaches.  He has a specific interest in the increase in collective redress and its significance in relation to data breaches. 

Emma Boffey, Senior Associate, CMS
Emma is a Senior Associate in the litigation team specialising in commercial dispute resolution and avoidance.  She is a qualified solicitor in both Scotland and England & Wales.  Emma is recognised as a ‘Rising Star’ by the Legal 500 2020 and is also ranked by Chambers & Partners.  In 2019, Emma was named ‘Junior Solicitor of the Year’ at the Herald Law Awards. 

Emma’s work focuses on disputes in the commercial, corporate, technology and financial services arenas.  She advises both organisations and individuals, particularly directors, shareholders and senior employees.  Her expertise encompasses contract issues, shareholder disputes, warranty claims, directors’ duties, fraud and bribery offences.  Emma also has expertise in reputation management, including defamation, social media matters, data protection and freedom of expression.  She has worked with many of Scotland’s leading counsel, successfully pursuing and defending a number of claims before the Commercial Court of the Court of Session in Edinburgh.   She has also significant experience in seeking and recalling interim orders, on an urgent basis.  

Alongside her work, Emma leads the CMS Law Scholarships Scheme in Scotland, which helps make a career in law more accessible.  Emma also sits on the editorial board of the UK Supreme Court Blog, which is run jointly by CMS and Matrix Chambers, and profiles all disputes which call before the UK Supreme Court.  

Emma also served as President of the Scottish Young Lawyers’ Association from 2014-2016.  She was admitted to the RSE Young Academy of Scotland, Scotland’s national academy for emerging leaders, in 2016.   

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Join Joanne Gillies and Stuart Neilson of Pinsent Masons for insights tailored to virtual courts for in-house lawyers. 

Speakers: 

Joanne Gillies, Partner, Pinsent Masons
Joanne leads the contentious insolvency team in Scotland for Pinsent Masons and advises both insolvency practitioners and corporates on all aspects of distressed debt and recoveries.  Joanne is recognised in the market as being proficient at handling technical insolvency matters and corporate disputes, particularly those which involve fraud.  As a solicitor advocate, Joanne has considerable advocacy experience in both the Sheriff Courts and the Court of Session. Joanne is also Chair of Pinsent Masons Female Futures initiative that focuses on gender balance within the workplace.

Stuart Neilson, Partner, Pinsent Masons
Stuart leads the Infrastructure Employment team at Pinsent Masons and has significant experience advising and representing clients in all aspects of employment law. Stuart is a trusted adviser and provides advice across the UK and internationally on technically complex areas of employment law, such as senior executive departures, industrial relations issues, equal pay and holiday pay.

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Join Stewart and Aiste of the Competition Law sub-committee for insights tailored to the needs of in-house lawyers focusing on competition law principles; and competition risk management and compliance.

Learning Outcomes:

• Meeting regulatory expectations;
• Assessing and managing risk exposure;
• Penalties and recent trends in competition law enforcement;
• Protecting legal privilege in the context of a competition law investigation;
• Competition compliance tips for in-house lawyers.

Speakers:

Stewart Hardie, Risk Division, Lloyds Banking Group
Compliance Advisory, CB Conduct,Compliance & Operational Risk, Lloyds Banking Group
Stewart worked in private practice for a number of years before joining Bank of Scotland where he held senior legal and
compliance positions including Bank of Scotland Group Compliance Officer. Most of his professional, in- house, experience
has been in regulatory compliance. He currently works in Lloyds Banking Group, Risk Division in the Conduct, Compliance
and Operational Risk team. He has not practised law for many years and never practised as a competition lawyer.
However, in-house, in both legal and compliance capacities, he worked on deals, projects and investigations involving
competition law considerations. He also made submissions to and met with competition regulators. With the FCA
becoming the sector competition regulator for financial services he became closely involved in reviewing competition law
in a wider risk management framework. Stewart chairs the Law Society’s Competition Law Reform sub-committee.

Aiste Slezeviciute, EU & Competition Legal Counsel, The Royal Bank of Scotland
Aiste has considerable EU and competition law experience gained at the European Commission and practising as a lawyer
in international firms in Brussels and the UK. Recent experience includes an in-house role as a competition legal counsel
in financial services sector. Aiste is dual qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales and as an attorney in New York State,
and is currently tutoring in EU & Competition law at the University of Edinburgh. 

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Join John McKinlay, Head of UK IP and Technology Practice and Convener of the Technology Law and Practice Committee for trends impacting contract drafting and negotiation for in-house lawyers. The module explores a diagnostic imaging AI technology case study.

Learning Outcomes:

• AI and liability: different approach to SLAs/KPIs
• Intellectual property in AI
• Ethics and reputation
• Warranties and obligations
• Supply chain risk
• Brexit and provisions
• Outsourcing and liquidated damages
• Cloud computing

Speaker:

John McKinlay, Partner, DLA Piper
John McKinlay advises a range of businesses and public sector organisations on contractual, technology, and intellectual property matters. His core practice is negotiating commercial, outsourcing and technology contracts. John is the Convenor of the Law Society of Scotland's Technology Law and Practice Committee

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Join Bruce Beveridge, our opening keynote at the 2019 In-house lawyers annual conference for insight on the critical contribution legal makes to an organisation and guidance on the management expectations of in-house counsel. This module is particularly relevant to those looking to reflect on their in-house career plans, path and next steps into strategic management roles.

Learning Outcomes:

• In-house counsel - an automotive comparison: steering, engine, accelerator or brake?
• Why in-house; what difference does that make?
• The importance of a balanced perspective: the relationship between in-house and outsourced.
• So you want to be a GC or a CEO? Really? Are you sure? How do you know?

Speaker:

Bruce Beveridge, Past President, Law Society of Scotland 2012-2013
For the last 20 years Bruce has operated as a GC or equivalent, CEO or Board Director or Chair. He has amassed a very broad range of legal and organisational experience both strategically and at the coal face. He is passionate about supporting those earlier in their careers. For more than a decade he has regularly facilitated at LBC Wise Counsel’s unique and transformational in-house talent development programme. Some career highlights are: Lord President’s Legal Secretary; Deputy Keeper of RoS; Head of part of Rural Affairs; Chair of thinkWhere Ltd; Office Bearer in the WS Society; CEO of BSAS; and CEO of Storas Uibhist. And of course President of the Law Society of Scotland. 

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This module will cover both operational readiness and claims readiness for your organisation. Gain insight on opt in and opt out actions amongst other vital data protection updates.

Learning Outcomes:

• One year on from GDPR: the privacy breach landscape
• Breach incidents – ICO fines and claims for damages by individuals
• Scaling it up: class actions
• Are you ready? Practical steps to manage and mitigate risk

Speakers:

Duncan Turner, Partner, CMS Cameron McKenna
Duncan is a partner in the Technology Media and Telecommunications Team at CMS Edinburgh. Duncan specialises in information technology, intellectual property, data protection and commercial contracts. His experience includes drafting and negotiating complex IT and commercial contracts, including outsourcing agreements, software development and licensing agreements and software as a service contracts. Duncan also has extensive experience advising on the IT, IP and data protection aspects of M&A transactions.

Catriona Garcia-Alis, Senior Associate, CMS Cameron McKenna
Catriona Garcia-Alis is a Senior Associate in the Disputes Team in Edinburgh.

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Company secretarial matters are vital in the operation of any company.
They include that the administration of the business complies with statutory and regulatory requirements, and that the board of directors’ decisions are implemented.
In this module, Gary Gray, Head of Company Secretarial Services, Burness Paull, provides a comprehensive overview of the duties of a company secretary and an up-to-date brief on pertinent Companies House matters.

Learning Outcomes:

• Filings at Companies House - from incorporation to dissolution
• Statutory registers that a company must keep
• What happens when a company has satisfied its purpose
• Process for striking off that company at Companies House
• Current developments

Speaker:

Gary Gray, Head of Company Secretarial Services, Burness Paull
Gary is a director, and head of the Company Secretarial and Governance team at Burness Paull. A Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (ICSA), Gary has a vast knowledge and depth of experience in providing company secretarial services in a legal services environment, as well as providing support and guidance to in-house company secretaries on their duties and responsibilities. Working with a hugely diverse range of clients across all sectors of the economy gives Gary an unrivalled understanding of what each of our clients need and how best to ensure the highest standard of service delivery tailored to them.

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Strong research skills are key competencies for the in-house legal professional.
In this online module, Kayleigh McGarry, Librarian to the Supreme Courts of Scotland, and Lorna Robertson, Head of Research and Information, Shepherd and Wedderburn, provide practical tips and demonstrations to access up-to-date and accurate legal information, across a range of resources.

Learning Outcomes:

• Improve your proficiency in finding legal content online
• Strategies for searching for content in the most time-efficient way
• Good practice approaches for accessing physical library resources

Speakers

Lorna Robertson, Head of Research and Information, Shepherd and Wedderburn
Lorna Robertson looks after Shepherd and Wedderburn's three libraries, providing legal and business research and a current awareness service to the lawyers. Her responsibilities also include book purchasing, subscription negotiations, and legal research training.

Kayleigh McGarry, Librarian to the Supreme Courts of Scotland, SCTS
Kayleigh manages the library service which is required to provide legal research support to the senior judiciary as well as the Supreme Courts staff and other employees of SCTS such as the solicitors and policy officers drafting reforms in court procedure. 

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An update tailored to in-house legal practice, Euan Smith of Pinsent Masons covers the consequences and implications of employment tax changes, immigration post Brexit, effective notice and vicarious liability.

Learning Outcomes:

• Essential employment law knowledge for in-house lawyers
• Review of the main changes in employment tax changes, immigration post Brexit, effective notice and vicarious liability.

Speaker:

Euan Smith, Partner, Pinsent Masons
Euan is a Partner who advises clients in all areas of employment law, in contentious and non-contentious matters. He leads the Employment Energy Sector and Corporate Immigration practices and manages key client relationships. He regularly advises blue-chip companies and public sector organisations on executive recruitment and termination, organisational change programmes, TUPE strategies, contract drafting, interpretation, industrial actions and collective employee relations.
He has represented clients before Employment Tribunals and Employment Appeal Tribunals in Scotland and England, in a wide range of cases including unfair dismissal and discrimination. He has designed and delivered effective training programmes for employees on employment law issues. Euan is recognised as an expert in his field and regularly speaks at conferences for employment lawyers. He is a member of the Employment Law Group and CIPD.

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Join experienced in-house lawyers from the commercial and public sector for a collegiate discussion on how to demonstrate value. We will explore the unique challenges faced by in-house communities and explore strategic examples from a variety of legal departments.

Learning Outcomes:

• How to demonstrate value to your senior management team
• Winning trust and maintaining it
• KPIs and benchmarking for in-house legal

Speakers:

Alison York, Head of Legal, SEPA
Stephen Taylor, Legal Counsel, AG Barr plc

Lindsay Thomson, Senior Service Manager, Clackmannanshire Council
Lindsay is currently the Service Manager of Legal and Democracy at Clackmannanshire Council. In this post she is responsible for advising Council and officers about all matters of law relating to the work of the local authority.

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Innovate –This module joins in-house solicitors to explore legal technology innovations and how they’ve put them into practice.

Learning Outcomes:

• Beyond the hype – what’s the reality of legal tech
• Benefits and pitfalls of introducing technology
• Getting buy in from your senior management
• Lived experience of panel members' organisations

Speakers:

Leigh Kirkpatrick, Managing Legal Counsel, Outsourcing, Technology and IP, RBS Legal
Leigh is a Managing Legal Counsel at the Royal Bank of Scotland. She provides strategic and transactional support on a variety of technology, outsourcing and innovation projects, with an increasing focus on emerging tech. She is passionate about innovation within the legal sector using approaches such as design thinking to drive change. She won the Law Society of Scotland’s in-house “Rising Star” Award in 2015, and the Women in Finance “Legal Advisor of the Year” in 2017.

Christopher Morgan, Group Head of Legal, Arnold Clark Automobiles Limited
Christopher Morgan is the Group General Counsel for Arnold Clark Automobiles Limited, one of the UK’s most successful privately owned companies. Christopher is responsible for all legal, regulatory, compliance and governance matters at Arnold Clark. Before joining Arnold Clark, Christopher was the General Counsel & Company Secretary for the Weir Group PLC and before that, the General Counsel of Balfour Beatty’s Rail Division, based in London. He has previously held legal roles with Honda Motor Company both in Europe and Japan and with British Airways. He trained as a solicitor in Glasgow and is both Scottish and English qualified, as well as passing the New York state Bar.

Stefano Rinaldi, Team Leader and Senior Solicitor, Central Legal Office of the NHS
Stefano qualified in September 2001 after an in-house traineeship at RBS. He worked in various in-house and private practice roles before joining the Litigation Department at the NHS Central Legal Office in 2007. Stefano has been at the CLO ever since and is currently Team Leader of a new general litigation team within the Litigation Department. In 2018, he took on the role of Product Owner for the CLO in relation to the wider Digital Transformation programme of NHS National Services Scotland. The main focus of Stefano's work has been and remains in relation to Medical Negligence Law and he is an accredited specialist by the Law Society of Scotland in this area. He is the most senior solicitor in the CLO’s Digital Innovation Team, which seeks to promote and expand the use of digital technologies and solutions by staff at the CLO.

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Join Frances Coats for a startegic review what the in-house profession might look like in the future, including the additional challenges and capabilities we will need to build, but with a reminder on what should stay consistent.
This session will focuses on what the in-house profession might look like in the future, including the additional challenges and capabilities we’ll need to build but with a reminder on what should stay consistent.

Learning Outcomes:

• Technology: societal change, ethical voice, communication
• Legal tech: know your business
• Efficiency: Urgency bias vs value
• Insourcing vs outsourcing
• People
• Tips for your career in your organisation

Speaker:

Frances Coats, Chief Counsel - Corporate and Commercial, The Ardonagh Group
Frances heads the non-contentious legal team at The Ardonagh Group, a family of leading businesses spanning the insurance distribution chain. Prior to this, she was responsible for advising Tesco’s Group Food division, covering the UK, Ireland and Central Europe. Before going in house, Frances was a corporate/M&A specialist at Clifford Chance and Latham & Watkins in London, Dubai and Abu Dhabi, including a secondment acting as sole legal counsel for Mondelez International’s Middle East and North Africa business.

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