Former General Electric Co. chairman and CEO Jack Welch Jr.'s death was met mostly with accolades about his role adopting business strategies that shaped a generation of corporate leaders.
Welch and his hand-picked former general counsel Benjamin Heineman Jr. also revolutionized the role of the in-house law department during his 20 years as CEO, several former GE colleagues told Bloomberg Law.
“It’s hard to overstate how dramatic the changes at GE were in terms of their impact on corporate law,” said Centrexion Therapeutics Inc. CEO Jeffrey Kindler, a former vice president of litigation and legal policy at GE.
“For my ...
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