Biography
Splitting his time between San Diego, London and Singapore, Duc advises in-house legal departments and law firms on the design and implementation of transformation projects to achieve sustainable strategic value and profitable growth. Duc’s key areas of advisory expertise include the business of law, organizational design and human capital strategy. Duc brings a unique combination of experience as general counsel, executive coach, global law firm attorney, author, business leader, educator, and consultant.
Duc also provides executive coaching to general counsel, senior counsels, and law firm partners and associates on developing leadership skills and enhancing performance.
Duc has worked in the United States, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. He recently published the highly acclaimed book, Architecture of Deals: Strategies for Transactional Lawyering, which focuses on innovation in legal education and training.
Previously, Duc was with Motorola Solutions, Inc., where he held several senior executive positions, including general counsel for Asia Pacific & Middle East regions; global general counsel of Motorola’s Solutions & Services division; and country manager for Vietnam. Before Motorola, he was a senior attorney at IBM, Inc. Prior to his in-house career, Duc was in private practice in California with DLA Piper (formerly Gray Cary), specializing in corporate finance in the technology sector. He also worked at White & Case LLP in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and Bangkok. Duc started his career as the executive director of the Constitutional & Legislative Policy Institute (Soros Foundation/Open Society Institute) in Budapest, Hungary, designing law reform projects in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. He also has served as an adjunct professor of law at the National University of Singapore and Central European University.
Duc is a graduate of Columbia University School of Law (J.D.) and of the University of California, Berkeley (B.A), and a fellow of the College for Law Practice Management.