davieG Posted 14 June 2019 Posted 14 June 2019 Leicester City’s first-ever general counsel has joined Commonwealth Games team. Caroline McGrory who has headed the Foxes’ legal team for two and a half years, takes up her new role ahead of the 2022 Commonwealth Games, which will be held in Birmingham. McGrory was formerly director of legal and commercial affairs at Mercedes-Benz Grand Prix. She was part of the management team which was involved in the management buy-out from Honda to create the Brawn GP F1 team at the end of 2008. Before that she was an associate at Charles Russell in London. McGrory is now assembling a team ahead of the Games and is looking to recruit an executive assistant.
foxinsocks Posted 14 June 2019 Posted 14 June 2019 Is this a new job ie leaving us...or a side hustle?
urban.spaceman Posted 14 June 2019 Posted 14 June 2019 Is it just me or is the article unclear as to whether she’s left permanently or we’ve loaned her out?
Suzie the Fox Posted 14 June 2019 Posted 14 June 2019 19 minutes ago, urban.spaceman said: Ian it just me or is the article unclear as to whether she’s left permanently or we’ve loaned her out? Its not just you, i have no clue either.
urban.spaceman Posted 14 June 2019 Posted 14 June 2019 https://www.britishsportslaw.com/?staff=caroline-mcgrory
MarriedaLeicesterGirl Posted 14 June 2019 Posted 14 June 2019 4 hours ago, urban.spaceman said: https://www.britishsportslaw.com/?staff=caroline-mcgrory "The only lawyer at the club." That's shocking!
davieG Posted 14 June 2019 Author Posted 14 June 2019 7 minutes ago, MarriedaLeicesterGirl said: "The only lawyer at the club." That's shocking! Why would you want more than one, they’d only disagree with each other anyway.
MarriedaLeicesterGirl Posted 14 June 2019 Posted 14 June 2019 3 hours ago, davieG said: Why would you want more than one, they’d only disagree with each other anyway. Mostly because of the different kinds of law that the club would need: Commercial law, property law, contract law, employment law, etc. I would expect a legal team of at least five.
davieG Posted 14 June 2019 Author Posted 14 June 2019 15 minutes ago, MarriedaLeicesterGirl said: Mostly because of the different kinds of law that the club would need: Commercial law, property law, contract law, employment law, etc. I would expect a legal team of at least five. They probably use outside people as well.
LinekersApples Posted 15 June 2019 Posted 15 June 2019 I heard a rumour that the club is ran by billionaires who know what they’re doing in the world of business
Guest Mickyblueeyes Posted 16 June 2019 Posted 16 June 2019 On 14/06/2019 at 16:34, MarriedaLeicesterGirl said: "The only lawyer at the club." That's shocking! Not necessarily. The General Counsel concept in Football is relatively new (which is shocking given the value of the industry). However, main function is to act as an advisor to the board based on external advice. Private practice lawyers (rightly so) tend to be a bit more safer in their approach and the GC’s role would be to extract that information and feed back to the board with the advice required. I dont think many clubs have an extensive legal team. Chelsea I think the most with the legal team going into double figures but otherwise it’s a smaller number per club (I’m talking top 6) and most don’t have the function at all. We need one given the expansion plans, and general growth being undertaken at the club at present. Given it’s quite a new role, I wouldn’t expect the club to hire a “team” until they see a genuine reduction in legal spend and you wouldn’t see that until year 3/5 of the role in function. we have lossed a good Lawyer here. Commercially astute with the right amount of technical ability to get things done.
David Guiza Posted 16 June 2019 Posted 16 June 2019 I had a case a couple of years ago with the West Ham United solicitor on the other side (not football related). No relevance to this whatsoever other than the fact that I think he's the only official solicitor of West Ham. Had a look at his website at the time and it read like OK Magazine, just full of pictures of all the celebrities he's acted for (including Michael Barrymore on his infamous case).
lfu Posted 16 June 2019 Posted 16 June 2019 47 minutes ago, David Guiza said: I had a case a couple of years ago with the West Ham United solicitor on the other side (not football related). No relevance to this whatsoever other than the fact that I think he's the only official solicitor of West Ham. Had a look at his website at the time and it read like OK Magazine, just full of pictures of all the celebrities he's acted for (including Michael Barrymore on his infamous case). Not surprising really, West Ham are the tabloid/gossip mag equivalent of a football club
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