by Cate Flahardy | Dec 26, 2022 | General Counsel Q&A, Your Career
For many lawyers, working in a legal department is a career aspiration. Being a part of the business, helping a company achieve its goals and focusing on a single client are recurring themes general counsel express when discussing their love for their work. The path...
by Cate Flahardy | Dec 7, 2022 | General Counsel Q&A
Matt Broad did not grow up with big aspirations about being a lawyer. A Southern California kid through and through, Broad — a great student in grade school and high school — imagined a comfortable life in the state he grew up in and loved, probably working as a...
by Cate Flahardy | Sep 27, 2022 | General Counsel Q&A
Deborah Pond grew up on Long Island, New York. Academically, she excelled — doing well though all her formative years in school. She chose to attend Duke University and studied psychology and political science. But as graduation became closer, and many of her peers...
by Cate Flahardy | Jun 1, 2022 | General Counsel Q&A
Sherri Morissette, General Counsel at National Dentex Sherri Morissette considers herself very lucky in some regards. As a child, she remembers a moment when her parents and some friends were sitting around a large table. They were actively debating. She doesn’t...
by Cate Flahardy | Jan 30, 2022 | General Counsel Q&A
Dorothy Capers was born to be a lawyer. She was born in Pine Bluff, Ark., and spent her early childhood in Birmingham, Ala., where her family owned a motel. This was in the 1960s—at the heart of the civil rights movement. The motel, one of the few in Birmingham that...