
Re-thinking the role of general counsel
Carlyle Kingswood Global talks to Rob Putland, deputy global GC at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, a man busy transforming what it means to be an in-house lawyer.
Working at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) wouldn’t suit every lawyer. If you yearn for walls spotted by Damien Hirst, encrusted with crackly oils of senior partners from days of yore or plastered with impassioned corporate values, you’d be disappointed. Desks groaning with gonks, or festooned with file boxes or framed pictures of you losing your lunch on the Corkscrew? Colour, of any kind? Ha, you wish. The overall effect is a little, er, Spartan.