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Law Practice

Jun. 27, 2013

Buttoned-up or zany, corporate cultures extend to in-house legal teams

As general counsel play a greater role within businesses, some companies have found it important to align the practices of its in-house legal with the company's carefully cultivated image.



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By Caitlin Johnson


Daily Journal Staff Writer


At San Francisco-based gaming company Zynga Inc., creator of the popular FarmVille and CityVille titles, work is play. And that goes for the company's lawyers, too. Aware of concerns that users weren't actually reading privacy policies, Zynga's in-house legal team in 2011 created PrivacyVille, a game-like tutorial in which users move around a game boar...

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