Prioritize: Have your in-house counsel manage all legal issues — Savvy CEOs rely on in-house lawyers who can address all of the day-to-day legal issues regularly facing their companies: fiscal responsibility and corporate governance, employment laws, intellectual property protection, contract negotiation and litigation management. Your corporate counsel can oversee and manage all legal matters — including relationships with outside counsel —taking the burden off the shoulders of your CEO, COO, CFO and other senior managers so they can focus on your company’s core business. As a result, your in-house counsel will intimately understand the challenges your company faces and provide the guidance to help you overcome them.