We are the GE Plastics law firm, one of the world's premiere law firms.

We do the deals, try the cases, negotiate and write the contracts, file the patent applications, litigate, advise and drive integrity at e-speed. As an example, Legal designed, wrote and launched a global interactive multilingual web-based integrity training program - the first in GE - to enthusiastic response from the business.

Always on the move.

A day in our lives may seem longer than 24 hours: deal lawyers close deals, litigators go to court, EHS lawyers work with regulators, patent lawyers coach technologists and draft patent applications, and so on. We don't wait for the phone to ring - our job is to take the initiative. Intellectual property lawyers sit with technologists to develop patenting strategies. Litigators analyze risks in proposed applications and advise on how to keep lawsuits from happening. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

We're highly specialized. All over the world.

Each lawyer is part of a business, a geographic pole and a GE-wide practice group. An Americas litigator, for example, will litigate in the Americas, advise an Americas e-commerce team on Internet transactions and participate in "best practice sharing" as part of GE Legal's Litigation Practice Group. A European transactions lawyer will negotiate and draft contracts with European customers or partners, and do projects as part of the European Lawyers group. But we also operate "out of area." Practice group leaders in Litigation, Mergers and Acquisitions, Sourcing and EHS drive global best practices in cases, deals and government relations around the world.

We have five specialty areas: transactions, litigation, intellectual property, environmental and labor. Two typical examples are:

Counsel - Environmental, Health & Safety
Our EHS lawyers are graduates of elite law firms and government service. They advise the EHS team and site management on the most efficient and effective way to comply with extremely complex environmental laws and regulations. When things go wrong, they negotiate, and at times litigate, with the regulators. And they work at e-speed: our EHS lawyers created and launched global web-based self-assessment tools for environmental audits and for tracking OSHA recordables, helping drive compliance to new high levels.

Counsel - Transactions 
Our transactions lawyers advise business development and commercial leadership in mergers and acquisitions, sourcing and other kinds of transactions. They negotiate, structure, document and advise from the target identification stage through closing of a deal. Our "deal" lawyers are also graduates of elite law firms, where they participated in a wide range of transactions, and as a result, we use outside law firms sparingly. Our deal lawyers use web-based document sharing tools, e-mail, Internet research and wireless communications to move transactions at e-speed.

Moving at e-speed, circling the globe, and handling a truly exciting client, GEP Legal is one of the best law firms in the world.

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