Here’s our countdown of the 10 podcast episodes that captured the strongest interest of corporate counsel over the past year – the conversations they returned to, recommended, and relied on to navigate an increasingly complex legal landscape.
10. The Corporate Counsel Show: Lessons learnt from investigations and regulatory matters
In this special episode of The Corporate Counsel Show, produced in partnership with FTI Consulting, we explore best practices for conducting investigations and regulatory responses, and the importance of pivoting from a reactive to a proactive approach to prevention and detection.
9. The Corporate Counsel Show: Being seen as less risk-averse
In this special episode of The Corporate Counsel Show, recorded at the 2025 Corporate Counsel Summit, SBS senior legal counsel Nicole Choolun reflects on why it is so important for the law department to showcase its risk appetite.
8. The Corporate Counsel Show: GenAI in practice – disputes and investigations
In this special episode of The Corporate Counsel Show, produced in partnership with TransPerfect Legal, we explore the practical ways that legal teams can use artificial intelligence (AI) to reduce the cost, time and risk associated with handling data in disputes and Investigations.
7. The Corporate Counsel Show: Why the future of legal work is flexible
In this special episode of The Corporate Counsel Show, produced in partnership with Elevate Flexible Resourcing, we explore why contracting roles are no longer a stopgap and what lawyers must consider regarding their vocational futures.
6. The Corporate Counsel Show: Why I’ve left legal practice
Mel Storey is one of Australia’s most prominent online legal personalities. Here, she reflects on why she recently left her general counsel (GC) role to focus on other projects at this stage of her vocational journey, and why it’s OK for legal practice not be one’s forever job.
5. The Corporate Counsel Show: Awareness of in-house careers is ‘still lacking’
Despite progress in recent years to raise awareness of in-house vocational pathways, much work remains to be done, one GC argues.
4. The Corporate Counsel Show: Grasping opportunities in a global business
If you work in a global business and opportunities arise to relocate abroad, leaning in can make you a much more rounded corporate lawyer, says one award-winning in-house lawyer.
3. The Corporate Counsel Show: How workplaces can better support parents of neurodiverse children
Here, a senior corporate lawyer reflects on the three-year career break she took to be a full-time carer and what businesses need to do to ensure that the idiosyncratic family needs of workers, including in the law department, are accounted for.
2. The Corporate Counsel Show: AI and legal, ethical, and professional duties
In this special episode of The Corporate Counsel Show, produced in partnership with LegalVision, we explore how innovative legal teams can navigate the myriad of legal, ethical, and professional concerns and risks as they adopt and embed artificial intelligence into their practices and processes.
1. The Corporate Counsel Show: Fractional GC life in the current climate
For Elle Jones, working as a fractional GC not only better suits her needs – it also works well, she says, for businesses that don’t have an in-house legal function. This vocational pathway, she has observed, is “popping up all over the place”.
