Believe it or not, GE general counsel Brackett Denniston oversees a legal department containing no less than 1,300 lawyers. And yet the team is actually smaller than average when measured as a proportion of GE’s total workforce, which exceeds 300,000 people worldwide.
Brackett was at pains to point this out this latter fact when he delivered a keynote speech at the Legal Week Corporate Counsel e-symposium on Wednesday (22 November). After all, the last thing any GC wants is to be accused of having a flabby legal department.
