A lot of lawyers are dilettantes, in a good way. they represent people doing a certain kind of work, for a limited time. Not Helen Wan. She’s a lawyer whose primary clients are writers and editorsand she’s a writer herself. It didn’t start out that way. She got her wings toiling for Big Law in the form of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. But after a couple of years, she moved to a New York boutique, Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz, which represents media companies and ad agencies.
Wan is now an associate general counsel at Time Inc., and the editorial lawyer overseeing the media conglomerate’s lifestyle publications. (The magazine group as a whole employs some 20 full-time lawyers.) She checks manuscripts for libel, and travels to meet with the editorial and business staffs of such lifestyle publications as Coastal Living and Cooking Light . Somewhere along the line, she’s also managed to write a novel tentatively called The Firm Outing the title, she says, is still subject to change. St. Martin’s Press will publish it in May 2013. Here’s an edited version of her conversation with Corporate Counsel .
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