For Helen Pudlin, the just-retired general counsel of PNC Financial Services Group Inc., the job’s legal challenges were never the problem. Rather, it was the airplane ride every four days between her home near Philadelphia (where her husband is cofounder, president, and CEO of the law firm Hangley Aronchick Segal Pudlin & Schiller) and her work in Pittsburgh.
Pudlin, 63, retired from PNC on May 31 after 18 years as GC, leaving behind a legacy as a strong business and legal strategist. Before joining PNC, she did legal work for the company while a partner at Ballard Spahr in Philadelphia.
