Susanna Lee enjoys the mix of program support and commercial contracts as corporate counsel at Salesforce but she feels her calling is to give back to her community. #ACCDocket #Top30s

Royal Dutch Shell CLO Donny Ching reflects on his 33-year career with the company and the lessons he learned working across the globe. #ACCDocket #ACCFamily

Are Media GC Adrian Goss reflects on the changes to print media during the pandemic and how in-house counsel can align themselves with the business.

Larry Venturelli applies his soccer coaching philosophy to team management at Zurich North America.

From simple tech fixes to multibillion deals, Budweiser APAC CLO Craig Katerberg says it all starts with people and a weekly email.

Joanne Flack leads a team of lawyers at Rackspace Technology that uses technology and data to move the business forward.

Albertsons Companies EVP, GC, and Corporate Secretary Juliette Pryor talks about how her intellectual curiosity has led her to work in different industries and even join the board of a publicly traded company to increase her business knowledge.

Oliver Jaberg was driving to FIFA’s headquarters when high-ranking football officials were arrested by Swiss authorities in 2015. Ever since, he has worked to help rebuild trust in FIFA and the organization’s credibility, as well as building out a best-in-class compliance program.

Kraft Heinz General Counsel Rashida La Lande talks about what brought her in-house, responding to the COVID crisis, and what the future of the legal department will look like.

As more ELI graduates move into chief legal officer roles, ACC Docket talked to three graduates who view the ELI experience as a steppingstone for their careers.

Liu’s life has taken a few turns — a few lucky turns, according to him — and he intends to pass that luck along. But as he tells his legal department, you can’t get lucky if you’re afraid of risk.

As GC for MetLife, Stephen Gauster has focused his energy on building up the company’s greatest assets: its people.

CHRISTUS Health Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel Jeannie Frey had been practicing law for almost a decade before she decided to become actively involved in the American Bar Association (ABA).

Klinger admits that working virtually is far from her preferred mode of work and for her, it is important to honestly convey the challenges she faces in navigating the current situation with her global team to also give them the freedom to express their own challenges and find common solutions together.

“Being a leader is not about what you can produce, but what your team can produce. There is an element of fear in becoming a leader because you’re putting your career in the hands of other people,”

Tony West doesn’t run away from a crisis; he heads toward it. The first executive hire by newly installed Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, West was given a mandate as chief legal officer to transform a company that had developed a reputation for winning at all costs into one committed to transparency and safety.

If the opportunity to head the legal department at a company that runs one of the most iconic western consumer brands in China didn’t arise last year, Joseph Chan would likely be thinking about how to spend his retirement after a successful career as a partner in a major US law firm.

When Michael Eckhardt joined Wawa in 2005 from a law firm, the firm’s partners teased him that he would soon get bored being an in-house lawyer for a coffee-and-hoagie shop. Fifteen years later, he can confidently say they couldn’t have been more wrong.

Shannon Klinger, the group general counsel of Novartis International AG, a Swiss multinational pharmaceutical company, has opened nearly every virtual meeting since Novartis took the decision to ask its associates to work from home in light of the COVID-19 pandemic — including this interview — with an earnest question: how are you doing?

When Darren Zeidel completed law school at McGill University in Quebec, he knew he had a passion to participate in some of the most significant opportunities the corporate legal profession could offer. Fast forward to July 2019, when he stepped into his current position at Aon plc following several other impressive roles, and it would appear his younger self steered him well.

“The most exciting thing about working for Infosys is its global footprint,” exclaims Inderpreet Sawhney, the company’s group general counsel and chief compliance officer. Infosys, which provides IT services and solutions, is based in Bangalore and has over 200,000 employees in 46 countries, nearly 20,000 of whom work on its main campus.

Leaders have an obligation to offer opportunities to people, and the onus is on leadership to continue to provide those opportunities when other priorities, such as a child, alter a parent’s career path. And the only way that can happen is if there is truly open communication between leaders and those they lead.

Most lawyers regard the general counsel role as the pinnacle of an in-house career. The path to GC varies by individual and company, of course. For Wolf Frenkel, the general counsel of professional and technology management at consulting firm BearingPoint, headquartered in Amsterdam, the journey to the top of the in-house profession hasn’t been a straight climb up the rungs of a professional ladder.

Some insights into the career path of Hiro Kato, general counsel at INPEX in Japan.

As executive vice president and general counsel for Minnesota-based CHS, a Fortune 100 company with a unique farmer-owned cooperative structure, Jim Zappa's approach has proved effective as he helps America’s rural farmers run their farms and businesses.