Congratulations to Lisa Chessare, who has joined the law department of publicly traded for-profit education leader Adtalem as Senior Counsel. Evers Legal proudly facilitated this placement. Lisa is a graduate of Northwestern Law School who cut her teeth as a corporate and securities Associate for five years with Schiff Hardin; she had most recently been in-house as Senior Counsel for Commercial Legal Services with Walgreen Co. from 2011 – 2017.
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Congrats Stephanie Gaines
Congratulations to Stephanie Gaines, who joined the law department of publicly traded for-profit education leader Adtalem as Senior Counsel. Evers Legal proudly facilitated the placement. Stephanie is a former Partner with Hinshaw and Culbertson who most recently worked in-house from 2006 to 2017 as Senior Counsel for Employment with Walgreen Co.
Corporate Counsel magazine
A note of thanks. For years, I wrote the career advice column for Inside Counsel. American Lawyer Media purchased Inside Counsel a few years back and slowly merged it into Corporate Counsel (an ALM holding), which is now the dominant trade publication for in-house attorneys.
Corporate Counsel kindly invited me to continue in a similar role for them, and you will see links to the most current career advice column at our home page.
Please also look for an upcoming article by Dan Clark in the September issue of Corporate Counsel. Dan is a terrific writer who is taking on the challenge of reporting on the ongoing evolution of the General Counsel role… from back office cop to mission critical business partner in the C-Suite.
Mike Evers
Benefits for our Adjunct Counsel
In the past two years, our Adjunct Counsel service has “blown up” among law departments in the Chicago area. For clients and potential clients: At your request, we can provide examples of dozens of successful assignments over the past decade, resumes of attorneys who are working as Adjunct Counsel for us now, and of course resumes of outstanding in-house counsel who are available to meet your specific need. We have a terrific commercial generalist available (David L.) who is coming off a family leave absence coverage assignment in mid-August, and an experienced intellectual property attorney (Patti S.) who offers tremendous value. Just examples.
One important change that has been in place for over a year now, but we want to call attention to this for any attorney who may wish to apply for our Adjunct Counsel opportunities: we offer benefits including health care coverage. We were behind other larger staffing firms (like Axiom) on this issue in the past, but our volume and infrastructure has grown to match the competition on health care benefits. This enables longer term assignments and longer term relationships with Adjunct Counsel who may wish to work on consecutive assignments.
Email info@everslegal.com to inquire about Adjunct Counsel work.
Univar: Congratulations Julie Halperin
We are pleased to congratulate Julie Halperin on joining Univar as Senior Counsel. Julie received her joint JD/MBA from Northwestern in 2009, cut her teeth as a corporate finance associate with Goldberg Kohn, and most recently served as Senior Counsel with BMO Harris. Julie also worked as a Consultant for Accenture prior to attending law school.
Thank you to the legal and HR leadership teams at Univar for partnering with our firm on this engagement.
Congrats Greg Lacey
I am very pleased to relay a nice outcome that originated with our Adjunct Counsel service offering. Greg Lacey was on assignment through our firm with client Adtalem (the leader in for-profit education services). Greg is a former Partner with Dykema Gossett; he is a stellar employment attorney and litigator. Towards the end of Greg’s assignment, he interviewed for a direct hire position with Adtalem and was recently hired. Congratulations Greg!
While we are always careful to never promise direct hire employment as a possible outcome when an attorney works on-site as one of our Adjunct Counsel… “conversions” to direct hire are indeed win-win outcomes for all involved when they occur. That’s why we endeavor to provide permanent placement caliber attorneys for all of our Adjunct Counsel assignments.
Thank you, Greg. Thank you, Adtalem. Mike Evers
NAMWOLF event at Met Club, July 12
In-house attorneys: We recommend a NAMWOLF event at the Metropolitan Club on July 12. Joel Stern is presenting. Details and to rsvp: CLE Diversity and Inclusion
Congratulations Curt Kramer
Curt Kramer has been named Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Navistar International (NYSE: NAV), effective April 1 upon the retirement of Steve Covey. Steve spent 36 years with Navistar, including the last 13 as General Counsel. I thank Steve for making Navistar one of our first Fortune 500 clients almost 20 years ago. We had the privilege of handling the search that resulted in Curt’s placement at Navistar in 2002.
Curt started at Navistar with the title Senior Attorney, and he has successfully climbed every step up the law department ladder. It was an ascent that, by my count, included at least four title changes (most recently Associate GC and Corporate Secretary).
In our upcoming March 18 issue of “Evers eNews,” my Culture Fit column title is “Musical Chairs” and I talk about the frequency with which GC’s tend to move around these days. Steve Covey and Curt Kramer are proof that doing great work, building relationships, treating your team members well, navigating corporate changes, and always showing loyalty… remains a formula that works too. Congratulations Curt! I am very happy for you, and I appreciate your support over the years. Curt participated on a panel I put together for the In-house Innovates conference a few months ago. I am not supposed to play favorites, but you are indeed at the top of my list… I am grateful that our paths crossed early in our respective careers.
A quick thank you as well to Bob Perna. Bob was the General Attorney (really an Assistant GC title for Navistar) who hired Curt in 2002. Although Steve kindly gave our firm the thumbs up to engage with Navistar, I worked most closely with Bob on that search, and he was very generous in his support of our efforts. Bob has been a General Counsel for several years now and currently sits in the big chair for Rockwell Collins.
20th Year Anniversary
2017 marks our 20th year in business. Thank you clients, candidates, referral sources, editors, and all friends of our firm!
Happy holidays and get ready for a tremendous New Year.