The legal profession is standing at a new crossroads. Forces that once moved incrementally - client expectations, regulatory shifts, technology adoption, and firm culture are now accelerating in parallel. The cumulative effect is profound: law firms are being asked to reinvent how they serve clients, how they uphold responsibility in society, and how they organise themselves internally.
Highlights from Legal ESG: London 2025, where legal and ESG leaders explored risk, resilience, and the future of sustainable law and governance.
As the legal sector moves from AI experimentation to execution, Legal AI: London (Dec 3–4) brings together the thinkers, builders, and changemakers reshaping how law firms use AI to work smarter, faster, and more strategically. Across two days, attendees will explore how knowledge management, legal operations, and client services can thrive with the right mix of tech, culture, and strategy.
Generative AI once sat on the edges of legal practice—intriguing, but optional.
25-year legal veteran Anne-Marie Goodbody shares energy-first tactics to prevent lawyer burnout—meet her at Legal Wellbeing London, 11 Sept 2025.
Elizabeth highlights key changes, the need for proactive mental health strategies, and how empathetic leadership fosters healthier law firm cultures.
In this episode we sit down with Sam Jardine, Partner at Fieldfisher and a passionate advocate for mental health in the legal profession. Sam shares honest reflections on his 25-year journey in law, the importance of cultural change in firms, and why real well-being goes far beyond fruit baskets and ping pong tables.
As a key speaker at the upcoming Legal Wellbeing: London event September 11, Sam offers a preview of the conversations shaping the future of legal workplaces—covering topics like generational change, flexibility, leadership, and how lawyers can redefine success on their own terms.
Legal ESG: Toronto was a conference that brought together thought leaders, regulators, and legal innovators to discuss global ESG trends and practical strategies for collaboration, compliance, and resilience.
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP launches firm-wide rollout of Legora, a generative AI platform enhancing legal services through automated document drafting, contract analysis, and efficient legal research.
Crucial insights from Legal ESG Latin America, into how the rapidly evolving ESG finance sector is presenting both challenges and strategic opportunities that lawyers must address to guide their clients effectively.
In 2025, the legal profession finds itself at a crossroads between traditional office mandates and evolving expectations around workplace flexibility.
While media headlines may suggest that ESG is dead, the reality on the ground tells a more
nuanced story. Insights from a recent discussion with a financier highlight a period of retrenchment — not rejection — of ESG, both at corporations mostly impacted and particularly in the financial market arena.
Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs at major U.S. law firms have increasingly come under scrutiny, facing intense political backlash driven by President Donald Trump.
In late March, 2025, during Legal ESG Latin America, the conversations revealed a critical focus on corporate governance, illuminating how governance must become integral rather than incidental within corporate strategies, for both law firms and clients. For leaders, the message was clear: robust governance is the cornerstone for effective ESG initiatives and sustained legal excellence.
Dr Larry Richard gives invaluable insights into the legal profession's challenges and the importance of prioritizing mental health.
Highlights from Legal ESG: London 2025, where legal and ESG leaders explored risk, resilience, and the future of sustainable law and governance.
The Legal ESG Awards 2025, honours legal professionals driving sustainable, ethical, and responsible business practices.
25-year legal veteran Anne-Marie Goodbody shares energy-first tactics to prevent lawyer burnout—meet her at Legal Wellbeing London, 11 Sept 2025.
Elizabeth highlights key changes, the need for proactive mental health strategies, and how empathetic leadership fosters healthier law firm cultures.
In this episode we sit down with Sam Jardine, Partner at Fieldfisher and a passionate advocate for mental health in the legal profession. Sam shares honest reflections on his 25-year journey in law, the importance of cultural change in firms, and why real well-being goes far beyond fruit baskets and ping pong tables.
As a key speaker at the upcoming Legal Wellbeing: London event September 11, Sam offers a preview of the conversations shaping the future of legal workplaces—covering topics like generational change, flexibility, leadership, and how lawyers can redefine success on their own terms.
ESG has outgrown checklist compliance; it is now a strategic discipline that spans client advisory, operations, and talent. At the same time ESG sits at a pivotal juncture where accelerating regulation is colliding with mounting political and market headwinds.
Ahead of Legal ESG Latin America this week, Pam Cone sits down with Maria Laura Farrapeira, General Counsel at AB Mauri in Latin America. She shares with us her journey to becoming General Counsel at a global company, her greatest ESG challenge, the role of lawyers in tacking sustainability, and what gives her hope for the future. You won’t want to miss this conversation.
In this episode of the Inside Legal ESG podcast series, Pam Cone speaks with Haley Czarnek, National Director of Law Students for Climate Accountability along with Martha Agudelo Cordoba, International Director of Law Students for Climate Accountability. They share why and when the organization was founded and give a highlight on their most recent research.
In this episode of Inside Legal ESG, Pam Cone talks with Sara Magneli, ESG Counsel at Advokatfirman Cederquist, a law firm in Stockholm Sweden. The conversation covers her career path to becoming ESG Counsel, the trends (and challenges) facing ESG lawyers and their client companies today, and, of course, what gives her hope in the face of ESG headwinds around the world.
