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Adam Frankel

General Counsel, NWN

Best Idea Wins

Adam Frankel built NWN's first in-house legal department in 2019. Three acquisitions later he has stopped believing in the one thing every acquirer wants, and he is unusually direct about why.

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Leaders to Watch

Veronica Rodriguez, in her own words

Veronica Rodriguez is Co-General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at TelevisaUnivision, where she is building a legal organization that help…

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Sofia Almeida, in her own words

Sofia Almeida is General Counsel and EVP of Zurich Seguros Ecuador and President of the Cámara Ecuatoriano Suiza, preparing for broader exe…

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Chief Marketing Officer

Marketers Wanna Market. Let ’Em.

Roy Sexton, Chief Marketing Officer at Vedder and past International President of the Legal Marketing Association, on why legal marketing i…

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Former Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary

There Is No Such Thing as a Legal Issue

Luis Machado spent nearly forty years arguing that the category itself does the damage. He thinks the profession is finally coming around.

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Marcela Denniston, in her own words

Marcela Denniston started in military cyber operations, built and sold her own cybersecurity company, and now runs NVIDIA’s cyber defense o…

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Luis Alberto Cárdenas Díaz, in his own words

Luis Alberto Cárdenas Díaz built the legal function at Banco Sabadell México almost from the ground up, through constant regulatory change…

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Theo Cárdenas Ruiz, in his own words

Theo Cárdenas Ruiz leads Legal and Compliance at Atento and teaches at Universidad Panamericana, drawing on nearly thirty years of practice…

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Paola Illescas, in her own words

Paola Illescas leads Legal and Compliance for Mondelēz International in Mexico, building the team the business needs to reach its 2030 goal…

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Ana Casanueva, in her own words

Ana Casanueva, formerly SVP and Director of Legal at Byline Bank, is growing Casanueva Law, a fractional general counsel practice serving c…

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Daniel Lobo Guerrero, in his own words

Daniel Lobo Guerrero left M&A practice in Bogotá, joined Sportradar as a legal intern in 2017, and built its global licensing, regulatory c…

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Leaders to Watch · Senior Associate General Counsel, Business & Legal Affairs (International)

Mariana D’Andrea, in her own words

Mariana D’Andrea built her legal career in a new country and a new language, and is now Senior Associate General Counsel for international…

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Managing Director

The Third Option

When a legal department is already running lean, one extended leave, transaction surge, regulatory deadline or product launch can create an…

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Leaders to Watch

Leaders to Watch: The People & Culture Fifty

Fifty people, culture and total rewards leaders from fifty organisations, grouped into four chapters and confirmed against each person’s ow…

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Whichever Courthouse Is Nearest

College sports spent five years arguing about who gets paid. This August the argument became about who gets to play, and the answer now dep…

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Leaders to Watch: The General Counsel Twenty

Twenty general counsel, none of whom were on the last list. Twelve of them do not only run legal. The general counsel seat stopped being a…

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Litigation Leaders to Watch: The Inaugural Class

The in-house litigation chiefs who decide how corporate America litigates – chosen editorially, verified individually. The inaugural class.

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Behind the Brand

Behind the Brand: The Legal Edition 2026, Edition Two

Edition One recognised twenty chiefs. Edition Two recognises the bench: 45 people across 35 organisations, at every level and every title,…

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Author & Chief Risk Officer

The Question the Risk Register Cannot Answer

Devon Euring left iHeartMedia in May and had a firm by the end of the month. His argument: governance can tell you what went wrong, but not…

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Catching My Wind

A founder essay from Commercial Park in Chicago: two games of 32 under new lights, every shot short until the wind came back. The first pie…

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Industry Shapers

Enterprise CEOs to Watch: The Inaugural Class

36 chief executives building the platforms and services enterprise leaders run on, across legal, finance, people, IT, supply chain and reve…

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General Counsel, NWN

Best Idea Wins

Adam Frankel built NWN's first in-house legal department in 2019. Three acquisitions later he has stopped believing in the one thing every…

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Reducing Hallucinations in Legal AI: Advanced RAG Architectures

Standard RAG can't guarantee hallucination-free legal AI — by design. Jose L. Sampedro Mazon on the Stanford HAI study, why the generative…

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Commercial First

Ana King joined a pre-revenue fintech that had gone two years without a people function and was losing the staff it could least afford to l…

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The Builders · Founder & CEO

The Same Bet, Twice

Oscar Casanova moved more than $30 billion at Goldman Sachs and helped scale software companies from the inside. Then he walked away to giv…

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