It’s About the Business, Not “Interesting Questions”

Veteran commentator Fred Krebs covers the recent “Reinvent Law NYC” conference and considers the prospects for general counsel to be company innovators. He recaps some interesting viewpoints on how in-house lawyers can rethink their function and do a better job, quoting among others Jeff Carr, general counsel of FMC Technologies, who urged general counsel to keep the needs of the business in mind above all and “stop thinking like a lawyer.”