Welcome to the latest edition of the Lit Daily’s In-House Litigation Leaders series where we focus on lawyers making the hiring decisions, shaping the strategies and managing the caseloads at some of the nation’s largest and most innovative companies. 

Meet Brooks Beard, the vice president & deputy general counsel for litigation, employment, cybersecurity, and regulatory compliance at VMWare, a cloud computing company based in Palo Alto, California. Beard joined the company in 2014 after about 17 years practicing at Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco, where he made partner as a litigator in 2005.