The Crafty Show - Crafty Counsel's in-house legal podcast

In the latest episode of The Crafty Show podcast, Crafty Counsel's Founder, Ben White sits down with one of our Fintech Day speakers, Kate Luton (Senior Counsel at Motive Partners). Kate shares her journey from private practice to in-house roles in the legal tech and fintech industries, shedding light on the unique challenges and opportunities she's encountered along the way. Kate's...

The Crafty Show is back! Launching season 4 with this special episode featuring the awesome keynote that Andy Cooke, General Counsel at TravelPerk, delivered at Crafty Fest in June 2023. Andy takes us on a journey - delving into the headwinds facing the legal industry today, addressing issues such as changing client demands, evolving knowledge consumption patterns, and the crucial role of trust in...

In the latest episode of The Crafty Show podcast, Crafty Counsel’s Founder, Ben White sits down with Leisa Turner,   General Counsel - Eurasia at Komatsu Mining Corp. Leisa takes us through her career journey which saw her starting her career at Blake Dawson in Australia before making the jump in-house to a mining company, Joy Global Inc. From there, Leisa then took another leap as she moved to th...

In the latest episode of The Crafty Show podcast, Crafty Counsel’s Founder, Ben White sits down with Rhian Ravenscroft, Head of Legal EMEA at MarketAxess. Rhian talks us through her career journey so far which included a later start to her legal career and then making the move in-house at only one year PQE. In 2018, Rhian also moved to Amsterdam with MarketAxess to establish their European office...

In the latest episode of The Crafty Show podcast, Crafty Counsel's Founder, Ben White sits down with Sofia Gohir, a senior in-house lawyer. Sofia talks us through her varied career journey. From starting as a paralegal in London during the financial crash, to making the jump and working in legal operations for Coca-Cola in Dubai.  Sofia also shares her experience of moving back to the UK afte...

In the latest episode of The Crafty Show podcast, Crafty Counsel's Founder, Ben White sits down with Richard Given, Group General Counsel at OpenPayd. Richard talks us through his varied in-house legal career which started with Cisco Systems and HSBC. After five years with HSBC, Richard then made the jump to Fintech startup world with 10x Banking before his current role as Group General Couns...

In the latest episode of The Crafty Show podcast, Crafty Counsel's Founder, Ben White sits down with Laura Jeffords Greenberg, Interim General Counsel at Worksome based in Denmark.  Laura talks us through  her incredible career journey in this episode. From starting out at the National Football League in New York and a brief stint in private practice in LA, to moving in-house once more, but a...

In the latest episode of The Crafty Show podcast, we delve into the world of Jordan Breslow, a seasoned former General Counsel whose expert advice and timely intervention saved his CEO from potential jail time.  Jordan talks to us about his experience working in California’s flowering ecosystem of innovation and tech in the past decades. This conversation takes a focused look at Jordan’s time with...

In this episode of The Crafty Show, Ben White (Founder & CEO at Crafty Counsel) is joined by two guests - Sharon Harris, an experienced General Counsel turned Executive, and Alexandra Badel, Head of Legal for Morgan Sindall Infrastructure. During their time together at Costain,  Alex and Sharon did something unusual by actually sharing the role of General Counsel. This conversation explores th...

In this last episode of Season Two of The Crafty Show, we pulled together some of the nuggets of wisdom our interviewees shared with us. We asked whether there was any advice they had been given that they use…. We spoke to several lawyers with fascinating career stories. We spoke to a former Olympic fencer and learned that no matter how successful you are, even the best lawyers can suffer from imp...

In this episode of the Crafty Show, we are joined by Emma Haywood, Associate General Counsel at Babylon, an international digital healthcare company.  Before joining Babylon’s in-house team in April 2021, Emma worked at the Magic Circle firm Slaughter and May for eight years.  Emma graduated with a first-class degree in Modern and Medieval languages from the University of Cambridge.  Emma is a men...

In this episode of The Crafty Show, we are joined by Harpreet Kaur Mangat, in-house counsel at Sony Interactive Entertainment (PlayStation).    Before joining Sony in July 2019,  Harpreet worked as in-house counsel at YouGov. She also worked at Amazon twice in the more recent role at the company, she focused on regulatory dispute resolution and also provided legal support to Amazon’s Advertising a...

In this episode, Ben White, the Founder of Crafty Counsel, is joined by Pav Gill,  who was the Head of Legal for the Asia-Pacific region based in Singapore at the now defunct German fintech company Wirecard.  Pav uncovered widespread fraud at the financial services provider and became a whistleblower. In 2018 Pav was forced out of the company after his efforts to conduct an internal investigation...

In this episode of The Crafty Show Renée Graham, Head of Content at Crafty Counsel is joined by Alex O’Connell, the Head of Legal and Company Secretary at FeverTree, a company that specialises in premium tonic waters and mixers.  Alex first entered the drinks industry when he was seconded from the Magic Circle firm Freshfields to AB InBev. He joined the company’s legal department on a permanent ba...

In this episode, we are joined by Sam Lester, Director and Senior Legal Counsel at TD Securities, which is a leading Canadian investment bank and financial services provider that offers capital market and advisory services to corporate and institutional clients globally. Before joining TD Securities Sam was a Legal Director for Investment Banking and Capital Markets, for Europe, the Middle East an...

In this episode we are joined by Sebastian Goldsmith, General Counsel of Medigold Health, which is a leading occupational health and wellbeing service provider in the UK.  Before joining Medigold Health in March 2020, Sebastain worked as a commercial associate at IFM Investors. He was a corporate solicitor at Latham & Watkins and he trained and qualified at Nabarro LLP.  Among other things Seb...

In this episode of The Crafty Show, we are joined by Atik Ahmed, Head of Legal at the Marco Polo Network, which is a blockchain enabled trade finance platform company.  Before joining the company in 2017, Atik worked in the insurance industry at Unum and Bupa and he trained at Pinsent Masons.  Apart from being a lawyer, Atik is a keen sportsman and avid Crossfitter. Atik was also a keen student jo...

In this’s episode of The Crafty Show , Crafty Counsel's In-house Legal Podcast, host Ben White, the founder of Crafty Counsel talks with guest Genevieve Landricombe, a  Legal Transformation Director, about her career journey, and how she supports in-house legal teams to transform the legal function.  Genevieve’s background is in financial services, technology and the legal industry. She leads...

In this episode, Ben White, the founder of Crafty Counsel talks to Emma Norman, Senior Legal Counsel at Invesco, an asset management company. Emma spent 8 years at Freshfields and worked in restructuring and insolvency at the firm before she joined the in-house legal team at Invesco.  In her spare time, Emma is a trustee for the Luminary Bakery, which is a charity and social enterprise in London t...

In this episode of The Crafty Show Ben White, founder of Crafty Counsel, is joined by Richard Moorhead, Professor of Law at the University of Exeter. Ben and Richard talk about recent ethical crises in UK businesses and what in-house lawyers can learn from them.  Richard is an empirical legal scholar who focuses on lawyers’ ethics and regulation, the courts and legal services, and access to justic...

In the first episode of the second season of The Crafty Show Ben White, the founder of Crafty Counsel, speaks to Max Garth, Senior Counsel and Director of Legal EMEA at Databricks and his colleague Ben Eastham, Senior Legal Counsel.  Before joining Databricks both Max and Ben worked for a range of well known tech and SaaS companies.  Max headed the legal team at Qumu Corporation, an enterprise vid...

In this week’s episode Renée Graham, Crafty Counsel’s Head of Content, is joined by Mel Scott who hosts her own podcast called Counsel, which is aimed at in-house lawyers. Mel is based in Brisbane, Australia and is a  Senior Legal Counsel at global technology company Megaport.  Mel started her legal career as junior lawyer at Corrs Chambers Westgarth where she advised private and public companies...

Welcome to this episode of the Crafty Counsel Show.  Join Ben White (the founder of Crafty Counsel) as he speaks to Dr Funke Abimbola MBE, CEO and Founder of the Austen Bronte Consultancy, a global consulting firm whose main goal is to improve leadership by leveraging the impact of diversity, inclusion, belonging, and equity, across the business world. Clients include many global household names i...

In this episode of The Crafty Show  Ben White (Crafty Counsel’s Founder) speaks with Kate Sherburn, the Head of Legal at Who Gives a Crap based in Melbourne, Australia.   Kate was the first in-house lawyer at Who Gives a Crap and was awarded ‘New In-house Lawyer of the Year’ by the Association of Corporate Counsel in Australia in 2020.  Ben and Kate talk about balancing work and kids, what it’s li...

“I think for us lawyers, sometimes giving away that title and that security and that training…and that identity that you've built all the way through…can be quite difficult.”    Karen Kerrigan, Chief Operating Officer Moneybox.  Karen Kerrigan has managed to do something many in-house lawyers want to do, which is to move to a business role.   Karen is the COO at Moneybox, which is a savings a...