“He said, ‘Look, obviously I’m not doing this right,’” Cooperman recalled. Jobs went on: “‘I need to know, what does it take?’”
Back in California, Cooperman met with Jobs at the chief executive’s house one Saturday afternoon to explain how to build an in-house legal department. By day’s end, Jobs — who was the best man at Oracle CEO Larry Ellison’s wedding — was offering Apple’s GC spot to Ellison’s top lawyer. And when Cooperman eventually accepted (with Ellison’s support), it marked the beginning of a new chapter for the world’s most valuable tech company, where legal issues have been embraced by the corporate culture that Jobs so painstakingly tended.
