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in-house counsel and a team member approach by outside counsel to realize theanticipated benefits of such a system.C. Developing a Global PerspectiveOne change coming to most companies, and therefore to their legal departments aswell, is an increasing need for a global perspective. Even for those companies with nooffices outside the United States, many of them, if not most, are selling their goods orservices overseas or to foreign customers now doing business in the United States.Therefore, there is an increasing need for in-house counsel to have a betterunderstanding of the law and legal system of the countries in which they are doingbusiness. For example, many other countries have recently adopted foreign corruptpractices acts, which may differ from the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of the UnitedStates. Any American company doing business in a foreign jurisdiction must have anunderstanding of such laws or the adverse consequences of failing to comply with suchlaws could be significant.There is also an increasing need for in-house lawyers, particularly in the United States,to have a better understanding of the role of the in-house lawyer in a businessenterprise in other countries. The role of the lawyer in a corporation differs from countryto country, and those differences may be subtle as well as significant. Bill Venema, oneof our panelists, is in a unique position to address some of the differences in the role ofthe in-house lawyer in the United States as compared to Europe. He is the general6