In-House
In-House
Podcast Description
The best in-house legal teams aren’t just legal. They help their organizations solve complex issues, make the right decisions, and even grow their businesses. That’s right, legal isn’t just a cost center.
In-House is a podcast featuring top leaders in the legal industry.
Tune in as Jessica Nguyen, award-winning Deputy General Counsel of AI Innovation and Trust at Docusign and former Chief Legal Officer of Lexion, interviews leading in-house counsel and legal experts. Our guests navigate the ever-shifting landscape of the latest issues, current events, and regulations - while balancing the needs of their organizations.
Whether you’re new or highly experienced, In-House is here to help you enhance your career.
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Content Themes
The podcast focuses on themes such as legal strategy, organizational growth, compliance challenges, and industry trends. Episodes may cover topics like AI in legal practices, navigating regulatory changes, and case studies of successful in-house legal teams that foster business growth and development.
The best in-house legal teams aren’t just legal. They help their organizations solve complex issues, make the right decisions, and even grow their businesses. That’s right, legal isn’t just a cost center.
In-House is a podcast featuring top leaders in the legal industry.
Tune in as Jessica Nguyen, award-winning Deputy General Counsel of AI Innovation and Trust at Docusign and former Chief Legal Officer of Lexion, interviews leading in-house counsel and legal experts. Our guests navigate the ever-shifting landscape of the latest issues, current events, and regulations – while balancing the needs of their organizations.
Whether you’re new or highly experienced, In-House is here to help you enhance your career.
Jessica, Jim and Victoria Harvey, Chief Legal Officer at Smile Brands, Inc., dive into the complexities of reporting structures for General Counsels (GCs), discussing the pros and cons of reporting to CEOs versus CFOs, and the broader impacts on a legal department’s influence within an organization.
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Key Quotes:
Once when you’re reporting to the CEO, you’re setting the tone that you’re also a strategic partner. You’re bringing more to the table, and you’re not just a compliance officer, although that is also part of my function. But you are there to help drive the business. You are part of the executive team. You’re making the decisions to grow the business.
You always have to stay humble. And I can tell you, even though I’ve been with the company for a long period of time, whenever we have a new executive joining or someone else on my team joining, I’m always open to new ideas. Just because you’ve been doingcertain things a certain way, you need different perspectives. I think in your career, no matter what level you get to, you always have to be humble and respectful and listen to others’ perspectives because your way may not be the only way to be doing something.
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Time stamps:
04:30 – Victoria’s journey
06:07 – Topic of the day
20:13 – Tactics for gaining influence
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Links:
Find Victoria Harvey on LinkedIn
Find Jessica Nguyen on LinkedIn
Find Jim Shaugnessy on LinkedIn
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