Let’s ignore the irony that this post about assessment of lawyers’ performance is written by a lawyer shall we? Yes? Good.

Last week I attended the Pinsent Masons Atlas Retreat. Chatham House rules prevents me from sourcing the origin of this post, who was an ex-lawyer, ex-chair of board, ex-company director, ex-superhero etc. Let’s call him in a pedantic lawyer-defined term kind of way, ‘the Speaker’. The Speaker was here, so we thought, to talk about how CEOs assess the performance of their lawyers.