Business needs lawyers who understand business, who clearly communicate likely results and costs, and who provide effective service at a cost that is proportional to what is at stake.
Robbie has experience in business as well as practicing law. After completing his Cambridge MBA in 2005, he spent three years on a range of entrepreneurial and consulting projects.
- Advised BP on changes to their culture in the North Sea to better manage costs
- Advised on a commercialization strategy for a new gas metering technology
- Business Development Director for a Vancouver biotech start-up
- Business Development Director for an online market intelligence firm serving the gaming sector
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Robbie is a past member of the ACC and is familiar with the multiple roles of General Counsel: legal advisor, strategist, risk manager, marketer of legal services, budgeting manager, and mentor. He has filled in-house legal roles as
- Business and Legal Affairs at CPA, a London firm building a new business outsourcing legal services to India
- General Counsel of a web 2.0 start-up in Dublin.
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Robbie partners with other lawyers to create the optimal legal team required for each case. On larger cases some of the biggest cost drivers are labour-intensive but relatively low-level. In the right circumstances these can be sent off-shore to a legal process outsourcing (‘LPO’) provider to be done cheaper, faster and better.
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