Apr 26, 2023
Being boxed in to a particular area of practice has “never
really appealed” to Virginia Crawter. Instead, she has looked to
pave her own way in law, allowing her — as a senior legal counsel —
to operate in ways that make sense to her, thereby allowing her to
provide as much benefit to a business as possible.
On this episode of The Corporate Counsel Show, host Jerome
Doraisamy is joined by Main Sequence head of legal and company
secretary Virginia Crawter to discuss the lessons she’s learnt from
her varied legal career, whether moving in-house has better allowed
her to tick the vocational boxes that are most important to her,
the day-to-day of in-house government roles and well as what life
looks like for in-house VC lawyers, as well as the headline
challenges faced by such professionals.
Ms Crawter also outlines what crafting her own adventure means to
her, how and why she realised such a mindset would be so important
for her journey, how to communicate with colleagues and executives
about such an approach, the values or outcomes that one needs to
understand, how to respond to resistance to crafting one’s own
adventure, pushing back on traditional structures and how other
in-house lawyers can better shape their vocational direction in the
post-pandemic market.
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