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 Mary-Alice Barrett, the associate general counsel of South San Francisco-based biotechnology company Genentech, an independent subsidiary of the Roche Group. Barrett, who is based in New Jersey, joined the company in 2008 after prior stints in private practice at Porzio, Bromberg & Newman and managing litigation in-house at Bristol-Myers Squibb Company.