A group of general counsel that says it’s standing against “executive branch attacks on lawyers and law firms” has amassed more than 500 members just 12 days after its launch.
Among the organizers of General Counsels United is Eric Whitaker, a former Tesla general counsel who’s now chief legal officer of publicly traded 10x Genomics, a San Francisco-based gene-sequencing company. He wasn’t immediately available for comment Wednesday, but on LinkedIn he says that the group is nonpartisan and that its purpose is to provide a forum for current and former GCs “to share information, resources and strategies on how to support the rule of law and the independence of the legal profession.”