The innovative approach that Microsoft Corp.’s legal department takes when working with outside counsel and its success in promoting diversity, juggling massive deals, handling litigation and assisting in product development place it in the top spot among Seattle’s in-house legal departments.

“I don’t think we manage our outside counsel. I really do think we have something much closer to a partnership with them,” said corporate vice president and deputy general counsel David Howard.

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