During Eva Kripalani’s 1997-2007 tenure as general counsel at Knowledge Learning Corporation (now Knowledge Universe – U.S.), she noticed momentous changes in the in-house landscape. “The role has changed significantly,” she told CorpCounsel.com. That’s why, when Prashant Dubey, a legal services consultant approached her about collaborating on a book to chronicle how the role of in-house counsel has changed, she agreed to the project.
The result of their work—”The Generalist Counsel: How Leading General Counsel are Shaping Tomorrow’s Companies”—was published this summer by Oxford University Press. “General counsel is a businessperson who happens to be a lawyer,” Dubey told CorpCounsel.com, noting this distinction is important—and wasn’t always the case for in-house counsel.
