Katheryn Hayes Tucker

September 09, 2008 | Corporate Counsel

The Association of Corporate Counsel celebrated two key developments last month in the protection of attorney-client privilege in government investigations. A 2nd Circuit ruling supporting the rights of corporate defendants to have unfettered access to counsel in a case involving former KPMG partners and new corporate prosecution guidelines issued by the Department of Justice dealt a death blow to the "Thompson memo." The ACC has been working to reverse the policy, said Susan J. Hackett, GC of the ACC.

By Katheryn Hayes Tucker

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July 23, 2008 | Law.com

Tara L. Adyanthaya is the daughter of an Indian doctor and an Irish nurse who met while working in a Rhode Island hospital. She grew up to be a health care lawyer and a bioethics scholar. Adyanthaya is associate general counsel of Emory University and Emory Healthcare. "I feel like I'm a kid in a candy store because I really love health care and I'm just steeped in it," she says. She also flies to Philadelphia regularly to continue part-time work on a master's degree at the University of Pennsylvania.

By Katheryn Hayes Tucker

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August 02, 2007 | Law.com

This spring, at 38, H. Eric Hilton was named vice president for legal affairs of the largest black-owned construction business in the country -- H.J. Russell & Co. It's also one of the largest minority-owned businesses of any kind in the country. With revenue in the neighborhood of $370 million, it's among the biggest private companies in Atlanta. Hilton is pleased with the vote of confidence behind his latest promotion. "You've got to prove yourself every day," he said.

By Katheryn Hayes Tucker

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October 16, 2007 | Corporate Counsel

Mark Padilla remembers vividly the exact defining moment when he decided to become a lawyer. He was welding in Iowa in 20 degrees below zero weather, and he thought, "I've got to find a better way to make a living." Now, as GC of Cox Communications, he says the practice of law is not as hard as the steel business. "You're sitting in a leather chair in an air conditioned office. You've got a pencil in your hand. It's like I've died and gone to heaven."

By Katheryn Hayes Tucker

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February 21, 2008 | Corporate Counsel

Establishing trust with businesspeople is a key to success for a general counsel, according to a panel of GCs who offered advice and tips in a program for the Association of Corporate Counsel Georgia chapter last week. The program also included the results of a membership survey that found GCs enjoy the entrepreneurial spirit and more balanced work/life schedule of being in-house but bemoan the vast number of meetings and corporate bureaucracy.

By Katheryn Hayes Tucker

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December 18, 2009 | Law.com

As more legal work moves in house and businesses wrestle with more corporate governance requirements, it's logical that the chief legal officer's importance to a corporation would be greater than ever. But increased value won't necessarily be showing up in paychecks. In most cases, general counsel pay this year will be flat at best, according to consultants and professionals who know the market. GCs have not lost their value, says Richard M. Rice of firstPRO Inc., but companies have lost resources.

By Katheryn Hayes Tucker

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May 29, 2008 | Corporate Counsel

Sabine Chalmers, the chief legal officer for InBev, the world's largest brewing company in terms of volume, has published a list on how to get and keep her business. And since billing is the area with "the greatest potential for conflict," she gave six rules for firms to follow.

By Katheryn Hayes Tucker

6 minute read

November 05, 2008 | Daily Report Online

Editor's Note: Former Gov. Carl Sanders is one of three Georgia legal icons the Daily Report news staff selected as our "Legal Legends." On Thursday, read a profile of Sutherland lawyer Randolph W. Thrower, followed on Friday by a look at the career of 11th Circuit Judge Phyllis A. Kravitch. It was late on the night of the run-off election for the Democratic nomination in the Georgia gubernatorial race, Sept.

By Katheryn Hayes Tucker

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