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Glasgow’s corporate practice has developed through long-term relationships with businesses at markedly different stages of growth and scale.
For more than fifteen years, Glasgow has served as General Counsel to a privately held company that grew from a relatively modest Illinois business into the largest company in its industry in the state, with operations ultimately expanding across multiple states. During that growth, Glasgow became deeply involved in the legal issues that accompany an expanding enterprise, including multimillion-dollar claims, federal and state litigation, employment matters, contracts, real estate, governmental disputes, regulatory issues, and significant business transactions.
That relationship represents one side of Glasgow’s corporate practice: earning the trust of a growing local business and remaining at its side as the company expanded, matured, and confronted increasingly sophisticated legal and business challenges.
The other side is demonstrated by Glasgow’s work for one of the nation’s largest companies in its industry. For approximately 21 years, he has represented a national corporation whose annual revenues now exceed $2.7 billion. The relationship has endured through changes in corporate leadership, business conditions, and the legal environment providing Glasgow with decades of experience representing a large, sophisticated enterprise in matters where legal decisions can have consequences extending well beyond an individual dispute.
The two relationships are distinct, but together they illustrate the breadth of Glasgow’s corporate experience. He understands the legal needs of the entrepreneur building a business because he has helped guide a company through that process. He also understands the demands and expectations of a multibillion-dollar national organization because he has represented one for more than two decades.
In both circumstances, the common denominator is trust. Corporate clients do not maintain relationships with outside counsel for fifteen or twenty-one years merely because counsel can answer a legal question. Those relationships are built by learning the business, understanding the people who operate it, exercising judgment when the answer is not obvious, and being available when the consequences matter most.
For businesses seeking outside General Counsel, Glasgow brings experience from both ends of that spectrum: helping an Illinois company grow into a substantial multi-state enterprise while simultaneously earning the continuing confidence of a national corporation generating billions of dollars in annual revenue.