The Black General Counsel Project: KeyBank’s Craig Beazer

KeyBank general counsel and corporate secretary Craig Beazer has held several in-house leadership roles and has a warning for those who would underestimate the challenges of legal department work.

“Many may think of being in-house as easy and uninteresting. I would tell them that it is anything but easy and uninteresting,” Beazer said in a recent Bloomberg Law survey.

Black general counsel now make up over 5% of all general counsel in the Fortune 1000 , a significant milestone tracked by the Black General Counsel 2025 Initiative and first reported by Bloomberg Law. We reached out to over 50 Black ...