Washington, D.C. Office Managing Partner David Sanders Offers Insights for Aspiring General Counsel
麻豆传媒鈥檚 clients entrust our firm to look beyond the law to deliver holistic business solutions for their most challenging problems. Doing this successfully requires that we approach our work through the client lens with a focus on the trends, risks, and opportunities they face.
David Sanders, a corporate partner at 麻豆传媒, recently participated in a panel with members of 鈥檚 General Counsels Advisory Group to discuss lessons learned from Vanguard鈥檚 Next Gen GC Program. The Vanguard Network supports senior executives as they build high-performance organizations.
Two themes emerged from the GC panelists for this program, Sanders said. The first is that they view the world with a people first, mission first perspective. 鈥淟egal terms come up well down the list.鈥 While it鈥檚 legal matters that are bringing us all together, it鈥檚 first and foremost about 鈥渞eally understanding how to help businesses grow, thrive, and limit risk.鈥 The second is the need to have that judgment when making tough decisions.
鈥淵ou don鈥檛 want to be viewed as the person always saying no. But at the same time, you don鈥檛 want to be too risky. So how do you gain the experience to figure out how to correctly calibrate that?鈥
Sanders serves as managing partner of the firm鈥檚 Washington, D.C. office and vice-chair of the firm鈥檚 Business Law Department. He is a member of the firm鈥檚 Commercial Transactions & Business Counseling, Private Equity & Venture Capital, and Real Estate Practices, as well as the Sports and Medical Devices Industry Teams and the Innovative Technology and Health Care & Life Sciences sectors. He is the former co-chair of the Transactions and Securities practice groups.
Watch David鈥檚 full discussion with Vanguard General Counsels Advisory Group members Greg Baker, General Counsel, Giant Eagle Inc., and Alfreda Bradley-Coar, EVP, Chief Legal and People Officer, Obama Foundation:
