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Compliance, Compliance, Compliance

Should a general counsel also hold the chief compliance officer (CCO) title? Associations that have sprung up in support of the CCO function say definitely no and advocate for a direct reporting relationship between a CCO and CEO, while other experts believe there are...

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...

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...

Press coverage of our Diversity panel

I was privileged to moderate “Beyond Diversity:  Creating Corporate Culture” at the 2014 Inside Counsel “Superconference.”  My thanks to Maria Green of Illinois Tool Works, David Rawlinson of Grainger, and Martin Montes of Exelon for their...