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Comment: In-house lawyers increasingly key 'translators' within, outside Silicon Valley tech companies

By Mike Swift ( June 18, 2019, 16:08 GMT | Comment) -- Few tech startups ever made a lawyer their first hiring priority. But as the regulatory landscape grows more complicated and perilous for Internet companies — both in the dimension of competition as well as privacy — general counsel and chief privacy officers are becoming more important bridges between the technical side of the business, corporate leadership and the outside world of regulators, lawmakers and image-makers.Few tech startups ever made a lawyer their first hiring priority. Silicon Valley companies generally start as an alliance of entrepreneurs and engineers, with lawyers reluctantly brought aboard when the increasing size and complexity of companies demanded it....

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