{"id":5751,"date":"2025-05-11T13:57:01","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T13:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/gc-group-championing-rule-of-law-tops-500-members-just-days-after-launch\/"},"modified":"2025-05-11T13:57:01","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T13:57:01","slug":"gc-group-championing-rule-of-law-tops-500-members-just-days-after-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/gc-group-championing-rule-of-law-tops-500-members-just-days-after-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"GC Group Championing Rule of Law Tops 500 Members Just Days After Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<p>A group of general counsel that says it&#8217;s standing against &#8220;executive branch attacks on lawyers and law firms&#8221; has amassed more than 500 members just 12 days after its launch.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<p>Among the organizers of General Counsels United is Eric Whitaker, a former Tesla general counsel who&#8217;s now chief legal officer of publicly traded 10x Genomics, a San Francisco-based gene-sequencing company. He wasn&#8217;t immediately available for comment Wednesday, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/ericwhitaker_gcu-gcu-activity-7325569313485004800-xOLG?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop&amp;rcm=ACoAAFjsVeMBxZfAGKt8PPZ_V7BwrseBWOPP5ys\" target=\"_blank\" link-data=\"{\" cms.site.owner=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">on LinkedIn he says<\/a> that the group is nonpartisan and that its purpose is to provide a forum for current and former GCs &#8220;to share information, resources and strategies on how to support the rule of law and the independence of the legal profession.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of general counsel that says it&#8217;s standing against &#8220;executive branch attacks on lawyers and law firms&#8221; has amassed more than 500 members just 12 days after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5894,5895,1126,772,153,1865,372,1804],"class_list":["post-5751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-championing","tag-days","tag-group","tag-launch","tag-law","tag-members","tag-rule","tag-tops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}