Aliya Haider, general counsel of the software-development platform Beacon, is no stranger to being a company’s first general counsel—a circumstance she says requires creative drive.

“You are basically demonstrating to folks who have never had a company lawyer before what a broad-spectrum, robust legal and compliance department ought to look like. That takes winning hearts and minds,” she said.

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