neate: time sensitiveNever ones to miss a good party, The Diary was there in numbers when leading corporate counsel gathered at the St Andrews Bay Hotel for the Global Legal Forum, which was hosted by Legal Week‘s Legal Director team.

Francis Neate, the conference chair, and group legal adviser to Schroders, ran the proceedings with the same light touch he used the previous year. Everyone at the conference had either been his trainee, married into his family or went to his university.