When Lucy Andre was mulling a move to an in-house counsel role, her father, who passed away soon thereafter, gave her valuable advice. He had run a company, and he’d had a close relationship with his general counsel.
“You know, Lucy,” he said, “so far in your career, people have come to you with questions and you have told them whether or not they can do what they want to do. When you move in-house, that’s not your role anymore… There’s no more ‘no’ in your vocabulary.”