Legal departments can function successfully during a crisis, but doing so requires empathy, cross-functional collaboration and strong partnership with outside counsel, legal chiefs said in a CLO roundtable.

The roundtable, titled “Leading Through Crisis,” featured the top lawyers from some of the nation’s best-known companies—from Amazon and eBay to American Airlines and Uber. The Georgia Asian Pacific American Bar Association panel was assembled by Michael Wu, who joined Bath and Body Works as chief legal officer last year.