Future JPMorgan GC: Our Department is a ‘Partnership’

Earlier this month, the country’s largest bank, JPMorgan & Chase, with around 1,200 lawyers, announced a changing of the guard at the top of its legal department.

Stacey Friedman, who has spent three years with the company since joining from Sullivan & Cromwell, will take the reins as general counsel by early next year, the company said in a statement.

Steven Cutler, meanwhile, who has guided the legal department in the general counsel role for the past eight years, will become Vice Chairman as Friedman steps into his role.

In an interview with Big Law Business, Friedman laid out her vision for ...