When Rebecca Shanahan was interviewing for her first general counsel position in health care, she was asked about her ability to transition from consumer electronics to such a highly regulated industry.
“I know all about charged-couple devices in a television, and I’m not an engineer, but I know how to sit down with the engineer and really understand [the subject matter] in a way that allows me to apply it to the law,” Shanahan recalled telling the interviewer, speaking of her then-job as an in-house lawyer at RCA. “If I can do that, I think I can figure out health care.”
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