A company has both. What's the difference?
Head of Legal is a manager of other attorneys, essentially; general counsel is the advisor to the Officers or Directors. Head of Legal would assign tasks re: litigation, underwriting, and so forth.
EDIT: The true answer is that this is governed by their relative contracts and articles of incorporation; however, if you have an inquiry, you can't go wrong directing it to the general counsel.
Quote from: Scipio on February 13, 2013, 01:21:48 PM
Head of Legal is a manager of other attorneys, essentially; general counsel is the advisor to the Officers or Directors. Head of Legal would assign tasks re: litigation, underwriting, and so forth.
EDIT: The true answer is that this is governed by their relative contracts and articles of incorporation; however, if you have an inquiry, you can't go wrong directing it to the general counsel.
I would answer the same - particularly with the edit. But generally Head of Legal would be an administrative position whereas General Counsel is usually a senior executive.
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Yep, our General Counsel is also our CAO.