Susan Hackett

Senior Vice President and General Counsel
Association of Corporate Counsel

Susan Hackett is the Senior Vice President and General Counsel of the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC), based in Washington, D.C. While she held a number of roles and responsibilities since joining ACC in 1989, she is currently focused on ACC’s advocacy and CLO segment efforts, including ACC’s amicus program, attorney-client privilege protection, the development of in-house legal ethics and professionalism resources, the ACC Value Challenge initiative (to reconnect value to the cost of legal services), testimony and representation before decision-making authorities, in-house corporate responsibility initiatives, multijurisdictional practice (MJP) reform, and civil justice reform initiatives.

Susan also leads ACC’s pro bono and diversity initiatives for corporate law departments, partnering with the Pro Bono Institute to create and implement Corporate Pro Bono (CPBO.org) and with Street Law, Inc., to create and implement the ACC/Street Law Corporate Legal Diversity Pipeline program. Susan is a 1983 graduate (dual B.A. in political philosophy and international relations) of James Madison College at Michigan State University (Go Spartans!), and a 1986 graduate of the University of Michigan Law School. Before joining ACC, she was a transactional attorney at Patton Boggs.

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