As a result of my experience leading a company for a period earlier this year, I've been asked on several occasions to speak to groups of lawyers about the role of a company's in-house legal department when viewed from the CEO's chair. The exact questions that people suggest I attempt to answer vary and are phrased with more elegance but, in ordinary language, they boil down to this: (1) What is legal's job? (2) How is legal doing? (3) Does anyone care?
November 05, 2012 at 11:52 AM
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As a result of my experience leading a company for a period earlier this year, I’ve been asked on several occasions to speak to groups of lawyers about the role of a company’s in-house legal department when viewed from the CEO’s chair.
The exact questions that people suggest I attempt to answer vary and are phrased with more elegance but, in ordinary language, they boil down to this: (1) What is legal’s job? (2) How is legal doing? (3) Does anyone care?
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