Erwin Caban: Empowering teams and fostering growth in legal leadership

What can restaurant management teach you about becoming a successful in-house legal leader? In this episode, David Lancelot, CLO and EVP Advocacy at LawVu, sits down with Erwin Caban, Deputy General Counsel of Howard Hughes Holdings Inc., for a conversation that’s as much about career reinvention as it is about legal strategy.

Erwin shares his unconventional path from restaurant management to legal practice, and how that early experience shaped the leadership instincts he still relies on today as in-house counsel.

In this conversation, you’ll hear Erwin break down:

• From restaurants to law – an unconventional path into legal
• Private practice to in-house – lessons in leadership and collaboration
• Strategic decision-making – navigating complex in-house challenges
• Legal’s role in community development – shaping The Woodlands master-planned community

This episode offers a fresh perspective for legal professionals curious about non-traditional career paths and the real impact legal expertise can have beyond the courtroom.