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This year’s R3-100

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,...

Congratulations Robyn Martin

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...

Every company needs its own Jeff Carr

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...

4 Best practices for giving feedback

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...

The Dating Game: 4 Tips for law department hiring

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...