When Royal Mail needed to an interim GC after the departure of Doug Evans, it looked no further than its external adviser. Caroline Hill talks to Jeff Triggs about the challenges of being a stand-in general counsel

When Royal Mail’s general counsel Doug Evans announced at the beginning of this year that he was to take on a similar role at pub operator Mitchells & Butlers, there was little doubt over which of the national postal service’s external counsel would fill the role of interim general counsel while a replacement was found.