Corporate counsel on both sides of the Atlantic are no longer second-class citizens, General Electric general counsel Brackett Denniston told delegates at this year’s Legal Week Corporate Counsel Forum in Paris.
“In the US 20 years ago, in-house was not the first place that the brightest people in the profession thought of going. It was a form of second-class citizenship,” said Denniston, who cochaired the event. “In Europe there is a realisation of the truly vital importance of the growth of legal competence.”
