Legal executive
Denise JALTON
Smac
France
“You learn constantly from working in a team”
So you think law is boring? When you listen to Denise talk about her job as a legal executive at Smac nothing could be further from the truth. For the last ten years, she has used her legal expertise to advise profit centers in the Ile-de-France/Nord/Normandie region. Her legal assistance is required both upstream and downstream of construction contracts. “The job of corporate legal advisor does not consist only in litigation, there is also a great deal of prevention work trying to anticipate problems that can arise on the jobsite.” Denise is fascinated by this aspect of her job. “It requires imagination – you have to think of all possible scenarios, search out every little wrinkle.”
Denise sees her role as giving practical legal advice in the field. “You have to stay close to the field to take the right decisions while keeping enough distance.” Her skills and commitment to her job led to her promotion to department head in 2001, about which she remains levelheaded. “You learn constantly from working in a team,” she says.
