Knowledge

Reporting Lines

 Do lawyers in the business units report to the CEO of the business unit, to the head of legal at HQ, or to both of them? This is a critical question for the standing of the legal function in a company, with clear cultural differences: in US companies, in-house counsel tend to report to the general counsel. In French companies, they tend to report to the CEO of their business unit. Some companies try to combine both with a matricial reporting system differentiating between "functional reporting" and "structural reporting. 

Antoine Henry de Frahan | 8 January 2010 |