When you meet ben Heineman in a social setting, he’s a good conversationalist, capable of all sorts of small talk. At one gathering, he and I chatted about the magazine’s then-new offices, sending the kids off to college, and the venue (Cipriani Wall Street, a landmark banquet hall and restaurant just down the street from the New York Stock Exchange). You’d never guess, from that sort of chitchat, that Heineman is a transformative agent.
But even casual readers of Corporate Counsel know that he is. In his role as general counsel of General Electric Company, Heineman transformed every notion of what a GC and a modern legal department should be. He hired bright, characterful people (every single one I’ve met seems to have wide-ranging intellectual interests, from foreign languages to global economics) and gave them unprecedented power. Post-Heineman, few in-house counsel are content to just sign contracts and cut checks for outside counsel.
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