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.
In this compelling episode we sit down with Dylan Adams, Partner at Davis Wright Tremaine, to explore the critical intersection of mental health and legal practice. As a key speaker at the upcoming Legal Well-Being event in New York, Dylan shares his insights on how law firms can cultivate supportive environments that prioritize wellbeing.
Promoting Wellness in the Legal Profession: An Interview with Kimberly Busch
Legal Wellbeing: London will bring together mental health and wellbeing experts, firm leaders, and those charged with the health and wellbeing of their firms to challenge the traditional models of leadership, organizational culture, and talent strategy.
Legal Wellbeing: London will bring together mental health and wellbeing experts, firm leaders, and those charged with the health and wellbeing of their firms to challenge the traditional models of leadership, organizational culture, and talent strategy.
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.
Announcing the finalists for the Legal ESG Awards 2025. The awards highlight the significant influence of legal experts in creating a responsible business landscape and challenge the profession to innovate and lead in integrating ESG principles.
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.
In 2017, then–Prime Minister Theresa May commissioned Professor Dame Wendy Hall and Jérôme Pesenti to produce a landmark report on artificial intelligence (AI), technology, and employment. The resulting UK AI strategy launched that October, creating the AI Office and the independent AI Council. While the Office was staffed by civil servants to oversee implementation, the Council was an expert advisory body.
As regulatory and reputational pressures mount, in-house legal teams are finding themselves at the centre of a growing storm around green claims.
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.
