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In reshaping and resizing the legal department at the Italian branch leading pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim, Enrico-Carlo Baccetti can take credit for the evolution of the function into ‘an integral business advisor’ comprising legal, compliance and audit professionals. In dealing with challenges presented to the company, which he states are both ‘challenging and complex’, Baccetti restructured the team by reducing head count, creating new teams, unifying two offices and increasing the breadth of legal responsibilities involving the merger of the risk and compliance and audit departments into legal. Further highlighting his innovative approach, Baccetti is a believer in the “do less law” concept, which he explains is ‘anticipating problems and devising creative solutions with an open mind; making more use of technology, more use of preventive law and risk management, and making less use of black-letter law’. Baccetti measures success by ‘improved flexibility and business partnering of the legal team by the senior management and business partners, and seeing the increasingly high level of influence the legal team members have within the organisation’.