Craig Gatarz said when he decided to go in-house in 1999, becoming the general counsel of e-commerce company Netgateway, he didn’t know exactly what a GC was supposed to do. But he knew that working at a law firm wasn’t for him, partly because he likes to have better control over his destiny.

“I like to feel like I’m invested in what I’m doing. Oftentimes when you’re in big law firms working on disparate client deals, you don’t really have that sense of ownership in terms of what you’re actually in there working on,” Gatarz said.

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