Companies Want Generalist GCs, but Increasingly Specialization is the Path to Job Security

"It's rare that I take a subject matter expert who's had one subject that they've been an expert in for 20 years and just randomly put that person in a general counsel role," said John Gilmore, managing partner of the recruiting firm BarkerGilmore.

April 11, 2023 at 06:26 AM

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Career Development

Trudy Knockless
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The original version of this story was published on Corporate Counsel

The rise of generative AI has upped the ante on one of the biggest decisions in-house attorneys can make: whether to cast themselves as generalists or as specialists.