General Electric (GE) has 11 separate businesses, each with its own legal department. This means it has more than 1,000 “businessfocused specialists” in legal.

Each of GE’s separate businesses has a distinct legal department headed by a general counsel who reports to the CEO of that business division. On legal business these counsel answer to overall US general counsel Brackett Denniston, who replaced the well-known Ben Heineman last year.