Hello and welcome to the July edition of The Legal Pool.
This is where you'll find key legal updates across a variety of different areas including employment, commercial, IP, DP and tech. So for all you HR professionals, in-house lawyers and others who wear multiple hats 👑 🎩 🎓The Legal Pool is where it's at!
Remember to check out our monthly feature, upcoming community events, where we keep you updated on the events that are not to be missed, scheduled for 2024 - there's something in there for everyone 👀
We're very excited to be sponsoring Workgroup Legal in Manchester this Thursday 4 July - let us know if you're going to be there too 🥳️
Have you seen that we've put together a special something for all the in-house lawyers out there? 🤩
If you haven't already, check out our Survival Guide to thriving in-house. Packed full of insights from legal experts, we explore building professional relationships, strategic legal resourcing, advancing your legal operations, and more. Are you ready to start thriving? Download the guide for free now.
We're also bringing you more of what you love - Legal Bite sessions and exclusive access to podcasts and our recommendations for our in-house community, The Watering Hole.
In this edition, we also cover ⬇️
Articles on:
✅ Maximising Efficiency in Contract Reviews: Strategies for IHLs
✅ Work with Pride: Celebrating Inclusion 2024
✅ Negotiating Liability Provisions in Contracts: Why is it so Important?
✅ Keeping On Top of the Code of Conduct
✅ Commercial Contracts: Common FAQs, Challenges and Tips
Plume HQ:
✅ What We Do - Our Bread and Butter!
✅ Survival Guide for In-house Lawyers
Thank you to all of the 'The Watering Hole' members (the newbies and the OGs!) who have joined, watched and contributed to all of our Legal Bite sessions so far. We would LOVE to hear from you on what you want us to cover next, or perhaps you'd like to join us as a guest speaker?! Please get in touch and share your ideas by contacting us at wateringhole@plumegroup.com
🎧You can tap into all previous Legal Bite sessions on Guild - just head to the resources tab.
⬇️Register now for our upcoming sessions!
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Thursday 4 July, 2024, 10:30AM – 11:15AM
💁Putting the sass in SaaS Contracts💁♀️
In this Legal Bite session, Senior Legal Counsel Jessica Panayides and Alice Clarkson will discuss SaaS contracts and the key need-to-know risk areas when it comes to contracting. We’ll provide you with some key takeaways for negotiations with suppliers and customers.
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Thursday 18 July, 2024, 10:30AM – 11:15AM
💻All things Tech Contracts and IP - is open source really free to use?💻
In this Legal Bite session, Senior Legal Counsel Jessica Panayides and CLO, Rachael Cooper will be delving into the wonderful world of all things tech contracts and open source! We'll discuss what open source really means and provide you with some helpful and practical advice that can be used when having to look at these types of contracts in-house.
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Finally, feel free to invite others that you think would benefit and contribute to The Watering Hole group. You can use the following invite link - https://guild.co/communities/7403-the-watering-hole?uid=24042467f4
Happy reading everyone and 'cheers' to a jubilant July 🦩🦩🦩
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