GE’s former general counsel Ben Heineman, Jr. has this one right. See his “The Rise of the General Counsel” appearing last week at Harvard Business Review. The in-house community is smarter and stronger than ever. And, no, apart from some GCs and their key lieutenants at a some publicly-traded and private companies, depth and great talent in in-house regimes was not the rule twenty years ago. But that has changed. And it’s good news for great outside corporate lawyers.
