… GC and CLO positions, that is.
Law.com reports that Google has hired a new general counsel and made current GC David Drummond chief legal officer.
Filling this new stand-alone GC position is John Kent Walker Jr., who was deputy GC of eBay.
While not common, this arrangement may be considered by larger, growing companies as they realize that legal is bigger than just the law. In addition, since Google pushes the envelope in certain emerging areas of the law, corporate and legal strategy are very much intertwined.
You can bet legal headhunters are taking note…