{"id":156248,"date":"2026-07-09T11:04:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T19:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/07\/09\/why-safe-general-counsel-hires-are-leaving-so-quickly\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T11:04:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T19:04:39","slug":"why-safe-general-counsel-hires-are-leaving-so-quickly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/07\/09\/why-safe-general-counsel-hires-are-leaving-so-quickly\/","title":{"rendered":"Why ‘Safe’ General Counsel Hires Are Leaving So Quickly"},"content":{"rendered":"

More chief legal officers are leaving within just a few years of being hired, prompting questions about whether companies are selecting the wrong candidates\u2014or preparing them for the wrong job. Legal leaders say the modern GC role requires far more than an impressive r\u00e9sum\u00e9.<\/p>\n

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More chief legal officers are leaving within just a few years of being hired, prompting questions about whether companies are selecting the wrong candidates\u2014or preparing them for the wrong job. Legal leaders say the modern GC role requires far more than an impressive r\u00e9sum\u00e9.<\/p>\n

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More chief legal officers are leaving within just a few years of being hired, prompting questions about whether companies are selecting the wrong candidates\u2014or preparing them for the wrong job. Legal leaders say the modern GC role requires far more than an impressive r\u00e9sum\u00e9. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 More chief legal officers are leaving within just a few […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":156249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/legal-news-hjVXBL.jpg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}