GC Influencers
Most Influential GCs - USA
Laura J Schumacher of AbbVie Inc.
Laura Schumacher is considered a leading expert in legal issues affecting the pharmaceutical industry, borne out of her three-decade career within the legal departments of AbbVie and predecessor company Abbott Laboratories.
Her current role as chief legal officer and vice chair for external affairs sees her take on a critically important and highly complex portfolio of mandates at the biopharmaceuticals giant, where her tremendous wealth of experience in high stakes legal matters comes to the fore – including her role advising on Abbot’s historic 2013 split into AbbVie and a new iteration of Abbot Laboratories. More recently, her position has seen her oversee the defense of the company in multidistrict litigation over its testosterone replacement drug AndroGel.
Schumacher wins considerable praise from commentators, who describe her as a “a true leader at the company” and commend her track record in “navigating Abbott and AbbVie through some of the most tumultuous lawsuits and transactions.”