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Backstory: Reconnect Redux
The Association of Corporate Counsel’s 2016 Law Department Management Report has a bit of a good news-bad news flavor to it. The good news is that law departments continue to gain “greater access to the inner sanctums where decisions are made,” as ACC puts it in its executive...
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ACC Global Chair Pursues Global Priorities: In-house group seeks cross-border perspective on legal issues
The Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) recently elected a global board of directors, with Iohann Le Frapper, general counsel of industrial financing firm ChetWode, named chair. Le Frapper is a truly global in-house professional with stints in the EU, the Middle East and Asia across multiple...
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Influencing the C-Suite: Advice for in-house counsel on the fine arts of influence and persuasion
For in-house counsel, convincing colleagues in the C-suite —or in the rest of the company, for that matter —is rarely a simple matter of saying, “Do it. I’m the lawyer.” Influence and persuasion require strategic thinking, a deep understanding of a company’s...
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