Does your company view its corporate lawyers as “naysayers-in-chief”? It doesn’t have to be that way. Christine Bader’s recent article in The Atlantic starts by noting Microsoft Corp. general counsel Brad Smith’s initial refusal to work at the company. “People did not want to leave law firms to go in-house like they do today,” he told Bader. He assumed the role would be one-dimensional and skewed toward saying “No.”
But his in-house career has been expansive and positive—whether it’s implementing a human rights policy at the company, or educating lawmakers about tech in Washington, D.C., says Bader. No one is calling him a naysayer.
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