Silicon Valley Embraces In-House Track

• Posted by Law.com on February 14th, 2008


• Filed in Careers (Inhouse Jobs)

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.