GC Influencers
Most Influential GCs - USA
Michelle Fang of Turo
Michelle Fang made her mark as one of the leading proponents of improving the legal industry’s record in diversity in her role spearheading an open letter, initially cosigned by almost 170 general counsel and chief legal officers, deploring the largely homogenous nature of law firm partnership and indicating that signatories would divert legal spend to firms with stronger metrics on diversity and inclusion.
More recently, she partnered with DiversityLab to disseminate practical information for in-house lawyers to aid their efforts in promoting diverse practitioners.
Michelle’s day-to-day role sees her serve as general counsel to peer-to-peer carsharing platform Turo. She joined the company in 2015 as its sole lawyer and has since grown the legal department to a 12-strong team which counsels the business on its international expansion, legal affairs and on regulatory policy.
Her previous experience includes a number of in-house positions at eBay, its subsidiary StubHub and at NBC Universal, having started her legal career as a litigation associate at Quinn Emanuel.