Ford GC to Firms: Study Our SEC Filings

There are a number of places a law firm wanting to do its homework on a client could go for polished, easily digestible information: annual reports, earnings calls, press releases, and news coverage, for example. David Leitch, Group Vice President and General Counsel at Ford Motor Company , suggests lawyers should also dig into a company’s SEC filings.

“There’s a lot of information about the business in there, too — information about how we think, how we’re organized, and what our risks and challenges are,” Leitch said.

But studying SEC filings is not for the faint of heart (an idiom which ...