An informal survey shows that most, if not all, of the 18 venture-backed San Francisco Bay Area companies that went public last year have GCs with an in-house track record. This represents a shift from hiring from an outside counsel firm, a practice that corporate attorneys say was favored during the dot-com boom. It’s a change that makes sense to Julian Ong, who worked at Salesforce.com for four years before joining SuccessFactors in 2006.
Read more about Julian and Silicon Valley in-house counsel at Law.com.
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