Steve Jobs, Apple’s confident leader, wasn’t always so sure how to handle his lawyers, explains Catherine Dunn

Daniel Cooperman was on a business trip in China in August 2007 when his boss’ best friend called him with a question. The friend in question was Steve Jobs, whose company had recently cycled through two top general counsel and was now facing a vacuum at the top of Apple’s law department. “Look, obviously, I’m not doing this right,” Cooperman recalls Jobs saying. “I need to know – what does it take?”