Hughes

June 07, 2007 | Corporate Counsel

The Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast cancer foundation is embarking on a new phase of its mission with a new logo, new CEO, new general counsel and plans to invest $1 billion in breast cancer research and community health and education programs over the next decade. Kimberly Simpson joined the grassroots network of breast cancer survivors and activists as general counsel in April. Simpson encourages attorneys to consider a nonprofit career move as a rewarding alternative to private practice.

By Kristine Hughes

13 minute read

July 02, 2007 | Texas Lawyer

Since the early 1990s, Tammy Yahiel has worked as general counsel for a private corporation with annual revenues topping $50 million, a NASDAQ-traded company with annual revenues up to $120 million, and a corporation earning about $75 million annually. Still, for nearly 17 years, one thing has remained constant: Yahiel's employer — the highly adaptive, 200-employee TST/Impreso Inc.

By Kristine Hughes

12 minute read

April 06, 2007 | Corporate Counsel

The first Curves women's gym opened in 1992 and the first franchise in 1995. The 30-minute fitness concept for women has been so successful that the company now claims 4 million members using the services of 10,000 locations worldwide. Roger Schmidt, senior vice president and chief general counsel, says that although Curves is privately owned, the company implemented self-imposed compliance procedures so it would be ahead of the curve should a business opportunity arise.

By Kristine Hughes

12 minute read

April 14, 2008 | Corporate Counsel

As a young adult, Melinda Hoyle Bozarth dreamed of working with prison inmates as a probation officer or halfway-house counselor to help them leave their mistakes behind. More than three decades later, she is GC for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice in Austin -- one of the two largest systems in the United States responsible for incarcerating offenders. Yet she doesn't see any irony in her career path. "I would never say I'm on the other side now. That's not the way I see my role as GC," she says.

By Kristine Hughes

13 minute read

July 06, 2007 | Law.com

In North Texas, where people spend an average of 61 hours a year stuck in traffic, Dallas Area Rapid Transit is expanding to meet the public transportation needs of residents of Dallas and 12 other member cities. GC Hyattye O. Simmons was first attracted to the public sector by the prospect of immediate and direct legal experience, and stayed because of the chance to provide the legal guidance necessary to enable a young governmental agency to build and maintain a regional transportation system.

By Kristine Hughes

9 minute read

June 07, 2007 | Law.com

The Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast cancer foundation is embarking on a new phase of its mission with a new logo, new CEO, new general counsel and plans to invest $1 billion in breast cancer research and community health and education programs over the next decade. Kimberly Simpson joined the grassroots network of breast cancer survivors and activists as general counsel in April. Simpson encourages attorneys to consider a nonprofit career move as a rewarding alternative to private practice.

By Kristine Hughes

13 minute read

November 22, 2005 | Corporate Counsel

Court decisions highlighting the potentially expensive pitfalls of electronic discovery for companies in litigation have come along all too often. Jonathan W. Hughes and Simon J. Frankel, partners in the litigation department at Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin in San Francisco, discuss some key considerations for in-house counsel even before litigation lands at their door and they're suddenly in the thick of discovery.

By Jonathan W. Hughes and Simon J. Frankel

9 minute read

May 05, 2008 | New York Law Journal

Christopher Hughes, a partner at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, and Avshalom Yotam, an associate at the firm, write that in May 2006 the U.S. Supreme Court effected a significant shift in the remedies for patent infringement. Coming shortly after the denouement of the NTP/RIM episode and the anxiety of a possible BlackBerry shutdown, the eBay decision rolled back what had been called the "automatic" permanent injunction rule in favor of an explicit traditional equity analysis.

By Christopher Hughes and Avshalom Yotam

13 minute read

November 14, 2007 | Corporate Counsel

Those who know him best say C. Lee Cusenbary practically has "success" written in his genes. He is the first full-time general counsel at San Antonio-based Mission Pharmacal, a 60-year-old privately held specialty pharmaceutical company. In addition to his legal skills, his artistic abilities include singing, playing several instruments, writing fiction, drawing and painting. He also turned the sordid tale of King Charles I into a musical called "Lament," which may become a stage or television production.

By Kristine Hughes

13 minute read

September 06, 2007 | Law.com

Mia M. Martin's father was a teacher, and her mother worked as a legal secretary. So it makes sense that she first became a special education speech pathologist, then an attorney in private practice and now general counsel for a North Texas school district. Many who know Martin best say her current job -- as the first general counsel for the Richardson Independent School District -- is the perfect union of her educational and legal experience.

By Kristine Hughes

12 minute read