From his office in San José, Costa Rica, Pérez-Umaña is helping lead a charge for technological progress within his company and his community, trying to build a foundation of legal precedent — one contract at a time — that he hopes will forever change the way that the BAC|Credomatic end users interact with digital banking products.

Nissin Foods Holdings Co., Ltd. Chief Legal Officer Masahiro Homma has spent nearly 20 years advocating for the position of in-house counsel in Japan.

Since joining the company in 2014, Gora has played a pivotal role in supporting the company as it maneuvers through an increasingly fluid digital market.

Bérubé serves as general counsel of Chemviron S.A., the European head office and subsidiary of Pittsburgh-based active carbon purifying company Calgon Carbon. It’s a fast-paced role, and she feels fortunate to be able to support the company’s European interests as it expands into new markets worldwide.

John Harrison, general counsel for aeronautics group Airbus, has been a longtime advocate for the importance of the general counsel's position within the company.

At Johnson & Johnson, Eric Wu hopes to play a role in bringing Asia to the forefront in the healthcare industry as a center of innovation, and assist the company’s vision of someday eliminating disease as we currently know it.

As is the case for most lawyers, however, the journey in-houjuse for Lachance came with intermittent detours.

As in-house counsel, Zolidis continues her commitment to the community — aiming to protect consumer data from the increasing threat of data breaches, and ensuring that Dell remains compliant with rapidly evolving data regulations.

Lawyers who work at Lyft — and startups in general — need to have a high-risk tolerance and be prepared to work at a frenetic pace. The excitement is what makes the job attractive to Llewellyn.

Based in Singapore, Im serves as Facebook’s associate general, APAC, and is a shining example that working in-house can be as creative and experimental as the tech engineers sitting across the table — navigating the nuanced legal questions associated with engaging nearly two billion active users monthly.

As McGrath describes it, his entrance to the in-house side of the legal profession was a result of “being in the right place at the right time.”

Over the course of 24 years, Debs has played a pivotal role in advancing Unilever’s position as a household staple for big-name products like Axe body spray, Dove soap, and Lipton iced tea.

Dubai is fast becoming a global epicenter for commerce and tourism. At the center of it all is Sahia Ahmad, general counsel of Dubai Tourism — a regulatory arm of Dubai’s government that works to encourage travel and international business.

When Ellis joined CP in 2015, he was told that the world he was about enter was fast-paced, exciting, and, most importantly, efficient. Under Harrison’s leadership, the company’s corporate culture prioritized answering to its shareholders, cutting extraneous clutter, and paving a clear pathway to success.

Now the vice president for legal and corporate affairs of Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev) Middle Americas — also known as Grupo Modelo in Mexico — Jimenez-Zorrilla fondly looks back on his professional career, and believes that every decision served as a crucial step that would ultimately lead him toward his dream of overseeing a global legal department.

Pramod Rao, general counsel for Citi South Asia, has worked tirelessly to foster one phenomenon that the international legal community has paid special attention to in recent years: the rise of in-house counsel in India.

Throughout her life, McNeill has always looked at the bigger picture.

As the senior labor relations, compliance, and business principle manager for Nestlé in Portugal, Joana Guerra is constantly called upon to ensure company compliance with changing labor standards.

Nawaz Hussainaly is on the forefront of a major shift in the Canadian healthcare system. As a clinical trial lawyer for Alberta Health Services (AHS) — which serves as the largest healthcare services conglomerate in the country — he has witnessed a substantial growth in the pharmaceutical testing industry as a result of enticing collaborations with universities in the province.