Although “Succession’s” Gerri Kelman was only general counsel and interim CEO of Waystar Royco, at times she ran the company, which sends a message lawyers should like: We might work behind the scenes, but we’re more powerful than people realize.
Take Viet Dinh, chief legal and policy officer of Fox Corp., who agreed to an interview with me this week. In 2021, he was widely reported as the power behind the throne, effectively steering a company nominally led by CEO Lachlan Murdoch and his father, Chairman Rupert Murdoch (the inspiration for “Succession” patriarch Logan Roy).
It led me to wonder, when I first interviewed Dinh in 2021, whether he might be the most powerful lawyer in America, given his major role at the news and entertainment giant controlling Fox News.
Dinh told me back then that reports of his power at Fox were greatly exaggerated.
There’s no denying Dinh’s meteoric rise through the legal profession. A refugee from Vietnam who came to the US at age 10, he graduated from Harvard Law, clerked for Justice Sandra Day O’Connor on the US Supreme Court, and went on to success as a professor at Georgetown Law, senior Justice Department official, and partner at Kirkland & Ellis.
Source: PR Newswire
In 2018, Dinh...
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