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A handsome, silvered fifty-five year-old midwesterner with the bearing, and legal acumen, of a 747 pilot. If you encounter him in the lift he won’t have a clue who you are, even though you have worked in his department since 1998. | A handsome, silvered fifty-five year-old midwesterner with the bearing, and legal acumen, of a 747 pilot. If you encounter him in the lift he won’t have a clue who you are, even though you have worked in his department since 1998. | ||
[[General counsel]] | [[General counsel]] are so named because they have distilled all the manifold devilish details of legal practice which haunt and propel their junior colleagues down to the single general principle by which the common law is organised: ''[[precedent]]''. Their first, and most likely last reaction to any conundrum they face will be to ask: “What have we done when this sort of thing has come up before?” | ||
They can thereby float above the messy tedium of actual legal work. They owe their elevated position to a knack for side-stepping difficult decisions — something which, in a large organisation during peacetime, it is easy to do, especially one with well-functioning [[escalation circle]]s. Being commander-in-chief of the armed forces is a cinch when the nation is not at war. Even in the torrid markets of the last decade, for the most part, the nation has not been at war. | |||
But no-one likes to admit they simply tinned it. Thus, most [[general counsel]] are [[inclined to]] attribute their success to their own extraordinary judgment, commercial nous and deep client relationships rather than having had the fortune to be mucking about in a dinghy on the tidal flats when the mother of all rising tides came in, floating even the meagre ''barque'' they happened to be sitting in. | But no-one likes to admit they simply tinned it. Thus, most [[general counsel]] are [[inclined to]] attribute their success to their own extraordinary judgment, commercial nous and deep client relationships rather than having had the fortune to be mucking about in a dinghy on the tidal flats when the mother of all rising tides came in, floating even the meagre ''barque'' they happened to be sitting in. | ||