There will never be a day when there will not be a lawyer in the office
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A. Grayer | SIG SAUER lawyer’ s role. He does not tie the job to a specific industry or mission. Instead, he links it to core responsibilities: understand the issue, assess the risk, and guide the path forward.
That discipline let him move between very different organizations without losing direction. It has also given him insight into how different teams operate. Through that experience, he has observed how decisions are made, how leaders respond under pressure, and how legal advice is received in different settings. Those observations now inform how he leads at SIG SAUER, where decision-making pace and oversight intensity demand both speed and accuracy.
Compliance in practice
At SIG SAUER, compliance is not an afterthought. It is woven into the company’ s operations from the start. Larry’ s response is to build structure first.“ We have really good systems and processes in place to make sure that we are fully compliant at all times,” he adds.
The approach is methodical. Teams review work, verify outcomes, and maintain consistent standards.“ We are checking, we are doublechecking,” Larry adds. For him, compliance
There will never be a day when there will not be a lawyer in the office
forms the base. From there, legal guides decisions, provides options, and helps the business move forward. To make this happen, Larry embeds lawyers directly with business units, putting them in rooms where decisions are made.“ That way you will hear things early on,” he notes.
Structured communication reinforces that proximity. He schedules regular check-ins across the business, creating space for conversations that might not happen otherwise.“ If you have something scheduled, people are more likely to tell you about a problem,” he shares.
He matches that steady cadence with visibility. Legal is not a last stop. It is present and accessible from start to finish.“ There will never be a day when there will not be a lawyer in the office,” Larry affirms. Over time, that blend of access and consistency changes how people view the law. Legal shifts from gatekeeper to problem-
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