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What CEOs Want in a GC: Five stages in the evolution of the position to the key role it is today
For many years, CEOs looking to hire general counsel have looked beyond legal skills to find good, solid, strategic business counsel. That’s no longer enough. The ability of the chief legal officer to manage the legal department and to stay one step ahead of both the C-suite and the...
Read MoreExpanding the Known Universe: GCs who take on a visionary role become the mapmakers charting their company’s course
General counsel have been called many things, but visionary has rarely been one of them. Though most GCs have, over the past 40 years, made the journey from administrator to counselor to gatekeeper to strategic advisor, that’s generally as far as they’ve gone. The highway that most...
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