Law.com's Trudy Knockless over the past year interviewed some of the nation's top chief legal officers and general counsel, gleaning lessons from their lives and their careers.

Here are highlights from those interviews and links to the full articles:

Hossein Nowbar, chief legal officer of Microsoft

Nowbar, an American immigrant born in Tehran, Iran, joined Microsoft way back in 1997, starting at the bottom of the legal department ladder. Twenty-six years later, in September 2023, the company promoted him from general counsel of corporate affairs to chief legal officer, the top legal post at the tech giant, the world's third-most-valuable company.