Even before Matthew Fawcett was named NetApp Inc.’s senior vice president and general counsel in 2010, he had a playbook. It was many pages long. It was the product of years of in-house and general counsel experience. And it spelled out in detail how Fawcett planned to approach his next general counsel job.

Three-and-a-half years later, NetApp has been named one of Corporate Counsel’s Best Legal Departments largely on the basis of the execution of that playbook. And by all accounts, the Silicon Valley–based storage and data management company has gotten there with an unusual amount of innovation and creativity.

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