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Mark Holden, general counsel of one of the largest private companies in the US, is no stranger to publicity and controversy; Koch regularly makes headlines for its political stances on issues such as financial derivatives and greenhouse gases. Holden runs a tight ship in-house, and has also come up with a novel way of ensuring the same high-quality standards are met by outside counsel: the use of “cold-eye review.” This means drafting in other outside counsel to assess the assigned counsel on a job – keeping the law firms he instructs on their toes.