By Rich Hanstock
// external lawyers often win clients by projecting total self-assuredness. it takes humility and self-awareness to separate confidence from hubris.
One of the most rewarding aspects of my legal career has been the time I spent in-house, providing legal and practical advice in support of global operations that advanced a variety of high public interests. I had the privilege of leading a mixed team of lawyers and disclosure professionals, later taking a lateral step into an operational leadership role.
It was my powerful sense of mission, rather than any sense of ambition or career planning, that diverted me from what was then a promising private practice as a self-employed public law barrister to take up an opaque and considerably less well-remunerated role in service of t...