Sean West and Boko Inyundo

The global COVID-19 pandemic, conflict in the Ukraine, rising inflation and interest rates, debt levels, and volatile food and fuel prices, among other things, are creating acute macroeconomic headwinds. So it’s perhaps no surprise that corporate desire for greater agility and flexibility in response to geopolitical instability is the No. 1 factor considered to have …

There’s a bit of geopolitically triggered whiplash going on in the market for legal talent. After more than a decade of easy money and fiscal stimulus, the global economy was dealt a COVID-19 curve-ball. As the virus took hold across the world in 2020, governments pumped untold amounts of money into their countries to keep …