AS THE CHIEF LEGAL AND HUMAN RESOURCES OFFICER FOR KAPLAN Inc., worldwide, Janice Block finds herself wearing many hats almost every day. “It’s such a long list of roles that general counsel fulfill or serve today,” says Block, who has been with Kaplan for 11 years. Block oversees the legal, compliance, human resources, leadership development and government relations functions for Kaplan, a global education company with close to 20,000 employees working in more than 400 locations in more than 30 countries. The company’s main headquarters is in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Providing higher education programs, professional training courses, test preparation courses and materials and other educational products and services, Kaplan educates more than 1 million students and professionals each year, Block says.

LEGAL TEAM: Kaplan’s legal team consists of nearly 20 lawyers and about 35 employees in all. “We have lawyers and legal professionals in nine cities across five countries (Chicago, New York City, Washington, D.C., Fort Lauderdale, London, Beijing, Sydney, Singapore and La Crosse, Wisconsin), she says. The department outsources some of its work, ranging from litigation to labor and employment law issues, from transactional work, including mergers and acquisitions, to intellectual property, real estate and regulatory matters.