The conflict between a corporation’s global standards and national law |

Ben Heineman was GE’s Senior Vice President-General Counsel from 1987-2003 and then GE’s Senior Vice President for Law and Public Affairs from 2004 until his retirement at the end of 2005. In this exclusive excerpt from his new book, he considers the challenges of conflict between a company’s global ethical policy and national laws.

Dinner with GC: Houston |

In the latest in our Dinner with GC series, we consider some of the different calibrations of the general counsel role, in addition to the relationship between internal and external counsel – set against the backdrop of a city under pressure from the plummeting price of crude oil.