Florit Legal

04/07/2024

🎙️ The ‘Homeware Retail Edition’ of the IHLJ is here, featuring Emily Ashton, Head of Legal at Dunelm. In this edition of the newsletter, we are revisiting my 2022 interview with Emily who (with my colleague Andy Balmer and Dunelm’s internal TA team) is currently in the process of adding an additional lawyer to the legal function.

📣 If you know someone who would like to work in a FTSE 250 retail business, then please share Emily’s interview with them and let’s get you together with Andy in the first instance.

🔜 COMING SOON: Something a little more interactive for those of you looking to start a team, or with recruitment and retention issues you need to fix.

03/12/2021

They say a good friend knows all your best stories but a best friend has lived them with you...

And after three and a half years of going pursuing our different directions, Covid-19, furlough and other tricky times in 2020 and 2021, as well as a crappy, 'no parties' Christmas last year, we've hatched a plan.

Next week, "for one night only" Florit Legal and Brooke Thornham will be reuniting for a joint (GDPR compliant) Christmas get together.

We're really looking forward to getting the team back round a table to break bread and let our hair down.

Reuniting with friends and family is something we all need this Christmas, so let's hope this virus and new variant stay under control.

We just need a bit of normality.

23/11/2021

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12/11/2021

Clipper Logistics General Counsel, Julia Dettmar was inspired to work as in-house counsel the day she heard a GC being interviewed on the radio, back in her school days.

Fast-forward to now and after several years managing a legal team in the telecoms industry, and some time in retail with Asda, Julia tells us about her current role within the fast-moving retail logistics sector and what she feels are the keys to success in a small, evolving in-house legal team like hers.

05/11/2021

With two family house moves in the last 12 months, we seem to have become a 'frequent flyer' with Dunelm when it comes to home furnishings. It's been a great retail experience. So it gives me great pleasure to feature Dunelm's Company Secretary and General Counsel, Dawn Durrant in our latest instalment of In-house Legal Journeys.

Dunelm Company Secretary - Dawn Durrant talks to Miguel Florit - in the In-house Legal Journeys® interview series.