header-logo header-logo

NLJ this week: Fast track to the boardroom via the CGIUKI

06 October 2023
Issue: 8043 / Categories: Legal News , Profession
printer mail-detail
141477
Interested in governance? Want to add another string to your bow? Then the CGIUKI (Chartered Governance Institute UK & Ireland) Fast Track for the Chartered Governance Qualifying Programme may be for you! Read all about it in this week’s NLJ

The CGIUKI is a professional body with a qualifying programme enabling Chartered status. Holding this qualification ‘demonstrates that you have the knowledge, skills and experience to take on a job with significant and wide-ranging responsibilities in large, medium, and small organisations. This includes a diverse range of roles such as, being within a secretariat or governance team, being part of a professional services team, having sole governance, or a company secretarial role’.

In short, it could be a fast track to the boardroom.

The programme is available to legal professionals with at least five years’ experience. Chartered status can be achieved in as little as nine to 12 months though the CGIUKI.

To find out more information or to see how you can apply visit Get ahead fast (cgi.org.uk) or contact us at fast-track@cgi.org.uk

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Gibson Dunn—London partner promotions

Gibson Dunn—London partner promotions

Firm grows international bench with expanded UK partner class

Shakespeare Martineau—six appointments

Shakespeare Martineau—six appointments

Firm makes major statement in the capital with strategic growth at The Shard

Myers & Co—Jess Latham

Myers & Co—Jess Latham

Residential conveyancing team expands with solicitor hire

NEWS
One in five in-house lawyers suffer ‘high’ or ‘severe’ work-related stress, according to a report by global legal body, the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC)
The Legal Ombudsman’s (LeO’s) plea for a budget increase has been rejected by the Law Society and accepted only ‘with reluctance’ by conveyancers
Overcrowded prisons, mental health hospitals and immigration centres are failing to meet international and domestic human rights standards, the National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) has warned
Two speedier and more streamlined qualification routes have been launched for probate and conveyancing professionals
Workplace stress was a contributing factor in almost one in eight cases before the employment tribunal last year, indicating its endemic grip on the UK workplace
back-to-top-scroll