Amy Miller

October 21, 2009 | Corporate Counsel

After a new ACC study shows in-house counsel really want to control outside legal costs, one top lawyer at the Association of Corporate Counsel's 2009 Annual Meeting in Boston says it's time for general counsel to step up and show 'some backbone.'

By Amy Miller

3 minute read

September 17, 2010 | The Recorder

By Amy Miller

2 minute read

April 28, 2008 | Corporate Counsel

Women's professional soccer is making a U.S. comeback, and a Palo Alto, Calif., attorney who never played the game is an unlikely but indispensable booster. "These women deserve a place to play, and the girls who look up to them deserve to see them play," says Vicki Veenker, who now splits her time between Shearman & Sterling, where she founded the firm's intellectual property practice in the San Francisco Bay Area, and the Women's Professional Soccer league as general counsel.

By Amy Miller

2 minute read

July 22, 2009 | The Legal Intelligencer

The world economy may be limping. Economic sectors like banking and manufacturing are still waiting for those green shoots to pop up, while the real estate market continues to search for the bottom. But last year the general counsel of the nation's largest companies still managed to get a modest raise.

By Amy Miller

10 minute read

June 16, 2010 | Corporate Counsel

Jay Lapine, a former general counsel for McKesson HBOC, Inc. (now McKesson Corporation) has been stripped of his right to practice before the SEC for five years as part of a civil settlement resolving charges that he participated in financial reporting fraud.

By Amy Miller

3 minute read

June 11, 2010 | Corporate Counsel

There's a fine line between spying on the competition and researching them: Going to a trade show or posing as a customer is one thing — stealing product info or electronic eavesdropping is something else entirely ...

By Amy Miller

3 minute read

August 26, 2011 | The Recorder

By Amy Miller

4 minute read

October 22, 2009 | The Legal Intelligencer

The economy may be showing signs of improvement, but controlling outside legal costs is the top priority for general counsel — even if it requires taking some "draconian" measures, one top lawyer at the Association of Corporate Counsel's 2009 Annual Meeting says.

By Amy Miller

3 minute read

June 01, 2008 | Corporate Counsel

Lawyers for Caterpillar Inc. don't shy away from legal battles.

By Amy Miller

6 minute read

November 16, 2010 | The Recorder

By Amy Miller

2 minute read