Jun 22, 2022
In her acceptance speech upon winning
the FMCG Lawyer of the Year category at the 2022 Corporate Counsel
Awards, Danielle Keyes reflected that there is so much work that
goes into rolling a burrito. Here, the GC for Guzman y Gomez
unpacks what it takes to succeed as an FMCG in-house lawyer.
On this episode of The Corporate Counsel Show, host Jerome
Doraisamy is joined by Guzman y Gomez general counsel Danielle
Keyes to discuss her journey from insolvency litigation in BigLaw
firms to working for a major food chain, how she went about
adapting to her new and different vocational pathway, and how the
age of coronavirus amplified the headline issues and challenges for
FMCG business and their law departments.
Ms Keyes also reflects on striking the right balance in an
often-manic working day, the lessons she has learned about what
constitutes success for FMCG legal counsel (and counsel across the
board as well), what she has learned about herself as a
professional that she may not have discovered had she not entered
the FMCG space, and what lawyers in this space have to look forward
to in the future.
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