Dan Clark

July 27, 2020 | Corporate Counsel

"No one should complain that the business calls too much," John Gilmore, co-founder and managing partner at BarkerGilmore, said. "That is when the promotional opportunities come; when GCs hear from the business."

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July 27, 2020 | Corporate Counsel

"I would say that I spend 60% to 70% of my time on the business side. I am always thinking from a legal mindset, but my days consist much more of business than legal. When I do have legal issues I can call outside lawyers. I get insight from them," Brandon Williams, general counsel and chief operating officer of Steve Harvey Global, said.

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July 22, 2020 | Corporate Counsel

"The reason I am speaking out now is because I don't want this to ever happen to anybody else and I certainly don't want it to happen to any lawyers of color," Cynthia Baldwin, former general counsel of Pennsylvania State University, said.

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July 21, 2020 | Corporate Counsel

"The inventory aspect of this has helped fuel the business objective aspect of this," Rachel Glasser, chief privacy officer at Wunderman Thompson in New York, said. "You can't make those decisions unless you know what assets you have and what you're working with."

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July 20, 2020 | Corporate Counsel

"This is a program that is meant to foster diversity within legal departments and to give these diverse students an opportunity to experience in-house practice. If we weren't going to be able to do that, my fear was the impact it was going to have on these students," Sadeq Khan, chief compliance officer and deputy general counsel at Vertical Screen Inc. in Warminster, Pennsylvania, said.

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July 16, 2020 | Corporate Counsel

"I think general counsel will be well received if they focus on not only what can't be done, which might mean coming into a building, but potentially what may be able to be done," Jonathan Segal, a partner at Duane Morris in Philadelphia, said.

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July 15, 2020 | Corporate Counsel

"In the sports world, particularly in the NFL, there is value and activation around a team's name and logo," Andrew Lee, a partner at Foley & Lardner in New York, said.

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July 14, 2020 | Corporate Counsel

"For GCs, right now, I think the toughest part is that we're being thrust into every decision. I think that because of the fact that so much of what we are facing we have not faced before. Most of the things happening right now have a legal aspect to them," Tim Hirsch, general counsel at CaaStle, said.

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July 14, 2020 | Corporate Counsel

"Legal departments are more creative in breaking a matter down to its component parts in order to find ways to get at least a little predictability on what they are going to spend," Kristina Satkunas, director of strategic consulting at LexisNexis CounselLink in Richmond, Virginia, said.

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July 10, 2020 | Corporate Counsel

"I know it is difficult to say, 'Because I was on campus I got COVID-19,' but that is not going to stop someone from making the argument," said Dannelle Whiteside, general counsel and soon-to-be interim president at Austin Peay State University in Tennessee.

By Dan Clark

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