by Meredith Haydon | Jul 29, 2014 | Your Career
Until recently, it was our practice at Evers Legal to stick with traditional background and reference checks. We did not Google our candidates before presenting them to clients. We felt, honestly, that we’d rather not know how they spend their limited amount of...
by Mike Evers | Jul 29, 2014 | Your Career
Congratulations to this year’s R3-100 honorees. This is a list of senior level women to watch. The “R3” stands for ready in three years to become a general counsel. Many of these terrific in-house attorneys are ready now, if you ask us. For example,...
by Mike Evers | Jul 29, 2014 | Uncategorized
Congratulations to Robyn Martin, who recently joined Potbelly. A 2000 law school graduate from Michigan, Robyn’s experience profile includes successful tenures with Winston & Strawn and DeVry. We thank Robyn for her long-term Evers Legal secondment with our...
by Mike Evers | Jul 21, 2014 | Culture Fit
As I read about a United States Senator calling for the firing of Michael Milliken, GM’s general counsel, I am not thinking about Milliken. I don’t know Milliken and I’m not qualified to judge his performance. Instead, my friend Jeff Carr came immediately to...
by Meredith Haydon | Jun 27, 2014 | Your Career
What are the goals of your feedback system and are you meeting them? According to Douglas Stone, co-author with Sheila Heen of “Thanks for the Feedback,” this is the first question companies should be asking themselves when it’s time to sit down for those annual...
by Cate Flahardy | Jun 26, 2014 | General Counsel Q&A
Growing up in Richmond, Ind., to hard-working parents, Joe Perkins may initially come off as your average … well … Joe. But Perkins’ life took shape in a way most Midwesterners—or anyone, for that matter—would only dream of. With parents who always encouraged him to...
by Mike Evers | Jun 26, 2014 | Your Career
Inside Counsel has asked for our recommendations again on this year’s “R3-100” list, a compilation of senior level women in-house counsel who are poised to become a General Counsel within the next three years. It’s a really nice recognition. ...
by Mike Evers | Jun 25, 2014 | Culture Fit
Since I consider our readers part of the family, I’m going to write this month’s column as if we are all sitting around the dining room table together. Enjoy. Over a year into post-divorce dating, I have enough material for a stand-up comedy routine. But I’ll stick...
by Meredith Haydon | May 30, 2014 | Your Career
In the business context, giving and receiving feedback is all around us. We’ve participated in feedback sessions, either formal or informal, day-in and day-out since the first day we launched our careers. But being well-versed in the idea of feedback as a form of...
by Cate Flahardy | May 29, 2014 | General Counsel Q&A
Native North Carolinian Anne Fitzgerald didn’t grow up wanting to be a lawyer. She envisioned herself, rather, donning a pair of sea legs and living the adventurous life of a scuba diver. After she finished her undergraduate studies at Duke University, Fitzgerald took...